Devoney Looser
@devoney.bsky.social
New book: Wild for Austen (St. Martin’s Press, 2025).
About to dig out those white gloves that go up to the elbows & my #JaneAusten trucker hat! Time to pack for JASNA--a challenge and a treat--having just pressed send on the latest edition of my author newsletter. The next months are going to be a whirlwind. Hope to see you! devoney.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
About to dig out those white gloves that go up to the elbows & my #JaneAusten trucker hat! Time to pack for JASNA--a challenge and a treat--having just pressed send on the latest edition of my author newsletter. The next months are going to be a whirlwind. Hope to see you! devoney.substack.com
“Seriously informative and enormous fun.” So grateful for this lovely review of #wildforausten in the Sept/Oct issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, to which I happily subscribe (and recommend to you). And once again, Happy 250th birthday to #JaneAusten!
September 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
“Seriously informative and enormous fun.” So grateful for this lovely review of #wildforausten in the Sept/Oct issue of Jane Austen’s Regency World magazine, to which I happily subscribe (and recommend to you). And once again, Happy 250th birthday to #JaneAusten!
Thrilled that #WildforAusten is included in Lit Hub's "Best Reviewed Books of the Week," wedged right there in between Arundhati Roy and Eric Foner! So grateful for all of the support for this book and the continued attention to #JaneAusten in her 250th birthday year.
September 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Thrilled that #WildforAusten is included in Lit Hub's "Best Reviewed Books of the Week," wedged right there in between Arundhati Roy and Eric Foner! So grateful for all of the support for this book and the continued attention to #JaneAusten in her 250th birthday year.
It's my book's bday! The last piece of #WildforAusten goes into place tonight at its launch at Changing Hands Phx. There are so many to thank. I'll be expressing gratitude over the coming days. Today it feels right to thank #JaneAusten for inspiring so many of us to read, watch, argue, laugh & love.
September 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
It's my book's bday! The last piece of #WildforAusten goes into place tonight at its launch at Changing Hands Phx. There are so many to thank. I'll be expressing gratitude over the coming days. Today it feels right to thank #JaneAusten for inspiring so many of us to read, watch, argue, laugh & love.
Just one week from today, Sept. 2nd, Wild for Austen launches! Over the past several days, I've done a few podcast and radio interviews, including one tonight recorded half a world away. It's thrilling to get this chance to join global celebrations of #janeAusten ‘s 250th.
August 27, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Just one week from today, Sept. 2nd, Wild for Austen launches! Over the past several days, I've done a few podcast and radio interviews, including one tonight recorded half a world away. It's thrilling to get this chance to join global celebrations of #janeAusten ‘s 250th.
Calling all Georgia #Janeites! Join us at Emory University for a #JaneAusten 250th conference on Sept. 20th. I'll be talking #WildforAusten. I hope to see you, if you're in the Atlanta area, and please alert your Georgia-based friends.
August 15, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Calling all Georgia #Janeites! Join us at Emory University for a #JaneAusten 250th conference on Sept. 20th. I'll be talking #WildforAusten. I hope to see you, if you're in the Atlanta area, and please alert your Georgia-based friends.
Hey Tulsa & #JaneAusten in OK friends, won't you join me on September 10th at 7 p.m. at the fab Magic City Books? I'll be talking #WildforAusten in conversation with some guy named @georgejustice.bsky.social . Anything could happen!
August 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Hey Tulsa & #JaneAusten in OK friends, won't you join me on September 10th at 7 p.m. at the fab Magic City Books? I'll be talking #WildforAusten in conversation with some guy named @georgejustice.bsky.social . Anything could happen!
Are you a Texas-based Janeite? Know someone who is? The second stop on my #WildforAusten book tour is a #JaneAusten lecture at the Dallas Museum of Art's Arts & Letters Live series on Sept. 4th. I'd love to see you there! dma.org/programs/eve...
August 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Are you a Texas-based Janeite? Know someone who is? The second stop on my #WildforAusten book tour is a #JaneAusten lecture at the Dallas Museum of Art's Arts & Letters Live series on Sept. 4th. I'd love to see you there! dma.org/programs/eve...
Austen Chat podcast episode drop! It was a delight to talk with host Breckyn Wood about #JaneAusten 's wild side. And a happy reminder to my teacher connections that the Jane Austen Society of North America is offering free memberships to students for the 250th anniversary. jasna.org/austen/podca...
August 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Austen Chat podcast episode drop! It was a delight to talk with host Breckyn Wood about #JaneAusten 's wild side. And a happy reminder to my teacher connections that the Jane Austen Society of North America is offering free memberships to students for the 250th anniversary. jasna.org/austen/podca...
I'm thrilled to be returning to beloved home turf & our treasured Magers and Quinn Booksellers for a #WildforAusten event, Weds., Sept. 24th at 7 p.m.. I'll be in conversation about #JaneAusten with the brilliant Andrea Kaston Tange. See you there? Free reg here: www.eventbrite.com/e/devoney-lo...
August 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I'm thrilled to be returning to beloved home turf & our treasured Magers and Quinn Booksellers for a #WildforAusten event, Weds., Sept. 24th at 7 p.m.. I'll be in conversation about #JaneAusten with the brilliant Andrea Kaston Tange. See you there? Free reg here: www.eventbrite.com/e/devoney-lo...
It's on! My new book, Wild for Austen, launches exactly one month from today from St. Martin's Press, then @ Manchester UP (UK), & Ultimo Press (Australia). I'll be on 16-city book tour! Details are over at devoney.substack.com. Thanks for supporting this book & celebrating #JaneAusten 's 250th.
August 2, 2025 at 7:15 PM
It's on! My new book, Wild for Austen, launches exactly one month from today from St. Martin's Press, then @ Manchester UP (UK), & Ultimo Press (Australia). I'll be on 16-city book tour! Details are over at devoney.substack.com. Thanks for supporting this book & celebrating #JaneAusten 's 250th.
A friend reports that it's on p. 14! Love this. Grateful.
August 2, 2025 at 3:12 PM
A friend reports that it's on p. 14! Love this. Grateful.
A quote from #WildforAusten is featured in the Sept. issue of @aarp.org The Magazine in its "The Tiny Slice" feature, with the spine right between Dan Brown and Ken Follett. Let me know if you spot this in the print magazine (p. 11)? I'm so grateful to AARP for covering #JaneAusten at 250!
August 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A quote from #WildforAusten is featured in the Sept. issue of @aarp.org The Magazine in its "The Tiny Slice" feature, with the spine right between Dan Brown and Ken Follett. Let me know if you spot this in the print magazine (p. 11)? I'm so grateful to AARP for covering #JaneAusten at 250!
Arizona friends, might you join me and my dear friend Tara Ison at the book launch of Wild for Austen? It'll be at the fabulous @changinghands.bsky.social (the Phoenix branch on Camelback) on Tues., Sept. 2nd at 6:30 p.m.. I'd love to see you there to celebrate this book and #JaneAusten 's 250th!
July 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Arizona friends, might you join me and my dear friend Tara Ison at the book launch of Wild for Austen? It'll be at the fabulous @changinghands.bsky.social (the Phoenix branch on Camelback) on Tues., Sept. 2nd at 6:30 p.m.. I'd love to see you there to celebrate this book and #JaneAusten 's 250th!
Thrilled that the audiobook of #WildforAusten (out Sept. 2nd) will be narrated by award-winning Marisa Calin! Calin's voice is enchanting & mellifluous, with just the right amount of humor & sass. Grateful this #JaneAusten book has such a perfect-fit narrator.
July 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Thrilled that the audiobook of #WildforAusten (out Sept. 2nd) will be narrated by award-winning Marisa Calin! Calin's voice is enchanting & mellifluous, with just the right amount of humor & sass. Grateful this #JaneAusten book has such a perfect-fit narrator.
“Wide-ranging exploration ... a great deal of intriguing material on offer ... Austen fans will relish these fresh insights.” Grateful to Publishers Weekly for a lovely notice! Wild for Austen is out on Sept. 2nd from St. Martin's Press. #JaneAusten #Janeites www.publishersweekly.com/9781250361332
July 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“Wide-ranging exploration ... a great deal of intriguing material on offer ... Austen fans will relish these fresh insights.” Grateful to Publishers Weekly for a lovely notice! Wild for Austen is out on Sept. 2nd from St. Martin's Press. #JaneAusten #Janeites www.publishersweekly.com/9781250361332
The Global #JaneAusten Conference just released its program. I'm blown away at this once-in-a-lifetime "Wow" gathering of brilliant scholars at the University of Southampton in mid-July. Thank you in advance to co-orgs Profs. Dow & Halsey for making this happen! www.southampton.ac.uk/leaf_content...
June 13, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The Global #JaneAusten Conference just released its program. I'm blown away at this once-in-a-lifetime "Wow" gathering of brilliant scholars at the University of Southampton in mid-July. Thank you in advance to co-orgs Profs. Dow & Halsey for making this happen! www.southampton.ac.uk/leaf_content...
On Sunday I gave a talk at the The Huntington to JASNASW, flanked by these two cardboard icons. It's such a gift to get to talk #JaneAusten with an audience ready to laugh and learn history & that shows up with a spirit of fun. I'm not taking that for granted in these times.
May 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
On Sunday I gave a talk at the The Huntington to JASNASW, flanked by these two cardboard icons. It's such a gift to get to talk #JaneAusten with an audience ready to laugh and learn history & that shows up with a spirit of fun. I'm not taking that for granted in these times.
I had the lucky chance last weekend to see an early screening of episode 1 of the new Miss Austen, based on Gill Hornby’s beautiful novel. Highly recommend your watching this moving Cassandra & #janeausten story on Sunday 5/4 on PBS Masterpiece, which deserves viewer support now more than ever.
May 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I had the lucky chance last weekend to see an early screening of episode 1 of the new Miss Austen, based on Gill Hornby’s beautiful novel. Highly recommend your watching this moving Cassandra & #janeausten story on Sunday 5/4 on PBS Masterpiece, which deserves viewer support now more than ever.
Happy to share an essay I've just published in PMLA, "Theorizing Archival Public Humanities Scholarship & Telling Excellent Stories," thanks to editors Risam, Hernandez-Laroche & Yothers. Check out the whole cluster on Theories & Methodologies of Public Humanities: doi.org/10.1632/S003...
April 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Happy to share an essay I've just published in PMLA, "Theorizing Archival Public Humanities Scholarship & Telling Excellent Stories," thanks to editors Risam, Hernandez-Laroche & Yothers. Check out the whole cluster on Theories & Methodologies of Public Humanities: doi.org/10.1632/S003...
Here's my new author newsletter post, including a lot of #JaneAusten and news of my next book (out 9/2), with a bonus trip down memory lane to the tune of Allan Sherman's "You Went the Wrong Way, Old King Louie" (1963). Know any good comedy songs to recommend? devoney.substack.com/p/wild-for-a...
March 31, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Here's my new author newsletter post, including a lot of #JaneAusten and news of my next book (out 9/2), with a bonus trip down memory lane to the tune of Allan Sherman's "You Went the Wrong Way, Old King Louie" (1963). Know any good comedy songs to recommend? devoney.substack.com/p/wild-for-a...
I'm so excited to share the punk-rock-vibes cover for Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane. The book will be out 2 Sept '25. Thanks so much for your ongoing help getting this closer to the finish line for #JaneAusten's 250th, which promises to be a bright spot in 2025.
February 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I'm so excited to share the punk-rock-vibes cover for Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane. The book will be out 2 Sept '25. Thanks so much for your ongoing help getting this closer to the finish line for #JaneAusten's 250th, which promises to be a bright spot in 2025.
Need something generative and uplifting this week? Join me, the co-editors, and authors of the new Cambridge UP journal Public Humanities for a launch webinar on Thurs. 1/23 at 5PM EST / 2PM PST. Free registration is here: cassyni.com/events/i6wna... #publichumanities #humanities #WritingCommunity
January 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Need something generative and uplifting this week? Join me, the co-editors, and authors of the new Cambridge UP journal Public Humanities for a launch webinar on Thurs. 1/23 at 5PM EST / 2PM PST. Free registration is here: cassyni.com/events/i6wna... #publichumanities #humanities #WritingCommunity
Happy New Year! It's a biggie for those who care about #JaneAusten & her legacy, bringing her 250th bday or sestercentennial. What she wrote in Persuasion may apply: "How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!" Please join me for occasional celebrating over at devoney.substack.com ?
January 1, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Happy New Year! It's a biggie for those who care about #JaneAusten & her legacy, bringing her 250th bday or sestercentennial. What she wrote in Persuasion may apply: "How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!" Please join me for occasional celebrating over at devoney.substack.com ?
Congrats to George Justice, Sören Hammerschmidt, &Louise Curran, whose Correspondence Primarily on Pamela and Clarissa (1732–1749) by Samuel Richardson (Cambridge UP) was named to the Chronicle of Higher Education's Best Scholarly Books of 2024! www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
December 20, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Congrats to George Justice, Sören Hammerschmidt, &Louise Curran, whose Correspondence Primarily on Pamela and Clarissa (1732–1749) by Samuel Richardson (Cambridge UP) was named to the Chronicle of Higher Education's Best Scholarly Books of 2024! www.chronicle.com/article/the-...