Rate Professor Devoney Looser

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in English, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1993.

Research Interests: British literature, women’s writing, and the history of the novel in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Appointments: Regents' Professor, Department of English, Arizona State University.

Awards: Guggenheim Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.

Publications: Author of Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) and The Making of Jane Austen (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017).

Additional Contributions: Frequent contributor to The Atlantic and The New York Times on literary history.