Devoney Looser

Devoney Looser is Professor of English at Arizona State University and the author, most recently, of "The Making of Jane Austen" (Johns Hopkins University Press), a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book (Nonfiction). Her recent writing on Austen has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Salon, The TLS, and Entertainment Weekly, and she’s had the pleasure of talking about Austen on CNN. Looser is one of the quirky weirdos featured in "Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom" and has played roller derby under the name Stone Cold Jane Austen.