Devoney Looser
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office: 334 Tate
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Prof. Devoney Looser, Catherine P. Middlebush Chair of English, specializes in British women's writings of the Restoration, eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, and the history of the novel. Her most recent book, Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850, was published by Johns Hopkins UP (2008). She previously published British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820 (Johns Hopkins, 2000; paperback, 2005), which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. She is the editor of Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism (Palgrave Macmillan, 1995) and co-editor of Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue (U of Minnesota P, 1997). A co-editor of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, she is past president of the Midwest Modern Language Association.
Education
PhD 1993, SUNY-Stony Brook
BA 1989, Augsburg College
Selected Publications
- Devoney Looser. Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2008) www.press.jhu.edu
- Devoney Looser, co-editor. Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (2004-present) http://jemcs.pennpress.org/
- Devoney Looser. British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2000; paperback, 2005) www.press.jhu.edu
Courses Taught
- ENGL 4188/7188: Major Women Writers: Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries
- ENGL 4970: Capstone Experience
- English 4240/7240: Restoration and 18th-Century English Literature
- English 8240: Jane Austen Among Women
- English 8240: The Beginnings of English Fiction: Richardson and the Fieldings
Selected Awards
- NEH Summer Seminar Director (2012): http://nehseminar.missouri.edu
- Purple Chalk Award (Undergraduate Teaching) (2011)
- Excellence in Education Award (2010)
- Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity (2009)
- NEH Summer Stipend Award (2009)
- American Philosophical Society Grant (2008)
- Gold Chalk Award (Graduate Teaching) (2007)
- Honor Tap, LSV (2004)