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Devoney Looser

Professor

office
: 72 McReynolds
phone: 573-884-7791
email: looserd@missouri.edu
web: web.missouri.edu/~looserd
office hours: W 10:50 a.m. to noon

Research and teaching areas
:
18th- and early 19th-century British
literature, the history of the novel,
women's writings, and feminist
theory, age studies
 

Devoney Looser

Devoney Looser specializes in British women's writings of the Restoration, eighteenth and early nineteenth century 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 in 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 (St. Martin's, 1995) and co-editor of Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue (Minnesota, 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

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-) inscribe.iupress.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

  • Alumnae Anniversary Award for the Recognition of Faculty Women
  • American Philosophical Society Grant
  • Big 12 Fellowship (Faculty in Residence)
  • Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title
  • EGSA Superior Graduate Faculty Award
  • Gold Chalk Award
  • Honor Tap, LSV
  • Huntington Library, Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellowship
  • Huntington Library, Michael J. Connel Fellowship
  • King’s College London Special Collections Fellowship
  • LSV Violet Award
  • Midwest Modern Language Association Fellowship
  • Noel Collection Fellowship, Noel Library, Shreveport, LA
  • Tribute to MU Women Award
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