Devoney Looser

Devoney Looser http://www.devoney.com, Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University, is the author or editor of ten books, including Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës http://www.sisternovelists.com, The Making of Jane Austen http://www.makingjaneausten,com, and The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes. Looser, a Guggenheim Fellow and an NEH Public Scholar, has published essays in The Atlantic, the New York Times, Salon, Slate, the TLS, and The Washington Post. Her series of 24 30-minute lectures on Austen is available through The Great Courses and Audible. In addition to being a quirky Janeite book nerd, she’s played roller derby under the name Stone Cold Jane Austen. Her free author newsletter is at http://devoney.substack.com and she’s on Twitter and Insta: @devoneylooser.