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Devoney Looser

Devoney Looser
Devoney Looser is Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author or editor of nine books on literature by women, including The Making of Jane Austen. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Salon, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly, and she’s had the pleasure of talking about Austen on CNN. Looser, who has played roller derby as Stone Cold Jane Austen, is a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona, with her husband and two sons.
http://www.devoney.com


The Pains and Pleasures of Taking Decades to Write a Book

Devoney Looser on Researching Early Historical Novelists Jane and Anna Maria Porter
October 25, 2022  By Devoney Looser
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Sense or Sensibility… What if Jane Austen Had to Choose?

Devoney Looser Considers the Mind vs. the Heart
February 11, 2019  By Devoney Looser
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Stop Trying to Make Pride and Prejudice a Christmas Story

It's Not, No Matter What Hallmark Does
December 17, 2018  By Devoney Looser
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Jane Austen, Political Symbol of Early Feminism

On the Appearance of a Literary Icon at the First Women's Marches
July 18, 2017  By Devoney Looser
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The Beautiful, Proto-Feminist Snark of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia

74,000 words of raucous, handwritten amorality
March 4, 2016  By Devoney Looser
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Actually, Emma is the Best Jane Austen Novel

On the 200th Anniversary of a Classic, An Argument for Its Greatness
December 23, 2015  By Devoney Looser
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