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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