Rate My Professor Devoney Looser

A prolific scholar, Looser is the author or editor of twelve books, including Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane (St. Martin’s Press, 2025), Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës (Bloomsbury, 2022), The Making of Jane Austen (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008), and British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670–1820 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). She has edited notable volumes such as the Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in the Romantic Period (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes (University of Chicago Press, 2019). Her scholarship has earned prestigious fellowships, including the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award in 2018, Huntington Library NEH Long-Term Fellowship for 2024–2025, and Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Residency in 2021. Additional honors include the ASU Founders’ Day Faculty Research Achievement Award in 2020 and Choice Outstanding Academic Titles for several works. Looser’s contributions extend to public writing in outlets like The New York Times and The Atlantic, and she serves on ASU’s President’s Academic Council, influencing the field of Literature through her rigorous archival research and engaging public humanities.