University of Missouri Columbia

Faculty Member, English

Professor

Arts and Science

About

Devoney Looser (pronounced DEV-oh-nee LOE-sir) was born in St. Paul, MN. She received her BA in English from Augsburg College in Minneapolis in 1989 and her PhD in English (with certification in Women’s Studies) from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1993.

She is the author of Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2008) and British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-1820 (Johns Hopkins UP, 2000; paperback 2005).  The latter was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and received honorable mention for the Outstanding Book of 2000 from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.

Looser has edited Jane Austen and Discourses of Feminism (Palgrave Macmillan, 1995) and co-edited Generations:  Academic Feminists in Dialogue (U of Minnesota P, 1997).  Since 2004, she has served as co-editor of the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, published twice yearly by Indiana University Press. She was also recently appointed to a three-year term on the PMLA Advisory Committee.

She has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Humanities Center, the American Philosophical Society, the Huntington Library, the Newberry Library, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, and King’s College London’s Special Collections, among others.

Looser has held teaching positions at Indiana State U, the U of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Arizona State U, and Louisiana State U.  She is Professor of English at the University of Missouri.  In 2006-7, she received the Gold Chalk Award for excellence in teaching, the Outstanding Faculty Award from the English Graduate Student Association, the MU Tribute to Women Award, and the Alumnae Anniversary Fund Award.  In 2009, she received the MU Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity in the Humanities and Fine Arts.  Recently, she received an Excellence in Education Award (2010) recognizing her work with students outside of formal classroom settings.

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