Zoom Meeting with Devoney Looser

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Members may join our online conversation with the wonderful Devoney Looser!

This Zoom event will take place at the Sosland Community Room
Jewish Family Services Brookside East
425 E. 63rd Street, Kansas City, MO 64111

DEVONEY LOOSER is Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University. (Her name is pronounced DEV-oh-nee LOE-sir).

She is the author or editor of nine books, including The Making of Jane Austen, a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book (Nonfiction) and The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes. Her recent essays have appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times, Salon, The TLS, and the Washington Post, and she’s had the pleasure of talking about Austen on CNN.

Looser was named a Guggenheim Fellow and an NEH Public Scholar in support of her next book, a biography of the once-celebrated, now-forgotten sister novelists, Jane and Anna Maria Porter. Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës is scheduled for publication on October 25, 2022.

DEVONEY LOOSER

DEVONEY LOOSER is Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University. (Her name is pronounced DEV-oh-nee LOE-sir). She is the author or editor of nine books, including The Making of Jane Austen, a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book (Nonfiction) and The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes. Her recent essays have appeared in The Atlantic, the New York Times, Salon, The TLS, and the Washington Post, and she's had the pleasure of talking about Austen on CNN. Looser was named a Guggenheim Fellow and an NEH Public Scholar in support of her next book, a biography of the once-celebrated, now-forgotten sister novelists, Jane and Anna Maria Porter. Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës is scheduled for publication on October 25, 2022.

DEVONEY LOOSER