Devoney Looser

Devoney Looser is a Foundation Professor of English at Arizona State University. She earned her PhD in English from Stony Brook University.

Professor Looser is the author or editor of nine books, including The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes and The Making of Jane Austen, which appeared on Publishers Weekly’s list of best summer books. Her essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Salon, Slate, the TLS, Entertainment Weekly, and The Washington Post, and she has had the pleasure of discussing Austen on CNN. She was named a Guggenheim Fellow and a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar in support of her book Sister Novelists: Jane and Anna Maria Porter in the Age of Austen.