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devoney.bsky.social
Professor and Author, ASU. Next book, Wild for Austen, Sept '25. Also sisternovelists.com & makingjaneausten.com. Bylines NYT, WaPo, TLS. Author news: devoney.substack.com
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submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

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.

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

It was great to talk to BBC Digital about the #MissAusten series. (I've read Gill Hornby's fine novel from which the show was adapted.) So enjoyed being a part of the conversation & weighing in on the #JaneAusten, Cassandra, & letters controversy. www.bbc.com/culture/arti...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

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 ?

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

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-...

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

So many really fantastic fellowship opportunities @jcblibrary.bsky.social and at Brown U for #VastEarlyAmericas #VastEarlyAmerica! A 🧵, with thanks, again, for sharing again. 🗃️ 1. JCB short- and long-term fellowships. Spectacular, imho. Applications due 12/19: jcblibrary.org/fellowships/...

submitted 73 days ago • 2 comments

Happy 249th Birthday, Jane Austen! (Mr. Darcy, eyes up here.) A few more fun things are in my author newsletter, if you'd like to take a peek: devoney.substack.com/p/the-latest...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

New faculty profile pic?

submitted 77 days ago • 5 comments

My book now has a subtitle! Grateful to those who helped brainstorm keywords. It'll be Wild for Austen: The True Story of a Rebellious, Subversive and Untamed Jane Austen, out on September 2. And as you can see from this mock-up of the title page, we're now in copyedits. Unglamorous but important.

submitted 100 days ago • 8 comments

A new open-access journal, Public Humanities, has launched. I'm proud to have a piece in the inaugural "Manifesto" issue, on "The Necessity of Public Writing." I hope academo-friends will read, circulate, propose, and submit. doi.org/10.1017/pub....

submitted 105 days ago • 9 comments

A welcome small pleasure this week: reviewing for @thetls.bsky.social a beautiful unusual sport bibliomemoir, The Striker and the Clock, by retired professional soccer player Georgia Cloepfil, then talking about it with lovely hosts Alex & Lucy on the TLS podcast. www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a new discovery: *3* brothers of #JaneAusten participated in public anti-slavery activism, as my research has uncovered. My piece in Conversation US describes Frank Austen's previously unknown abolitionist activities in Gosport in 1826. theconversation.com/3-of-jane-au...

submitted 198 days ago • 9 comments

Printing out a manuscript for the first time never fails to thrill. Thanks for celebrating with me here! Wild for Austen from St Martin's Press is now in revisions for a Sept '25 pub date, in what will surely be a robust #JaneAusten year. Help me spread the word? devoney.substack.com

submitted 209 days ago • 0 comments

“Writing prose for experts is seen as harder than writing prose for non-experts, and I just don’t think that’s true. They’re both hard in different ways, and they’re both a practice.” @bethanysays.bsky.social @devoney.bsky.social #c18th #AcademicSky

submitted 389 days ago • 0 comments

⭐ Public Humanities news ⭐ So happy to announce that I'm going to be leading an amazing editorial team alongside Dr Jeffrey Wilson. We will be launching an open-access, cross-disciplinary, international journal with Cambridge University Press. Find out more:

submitted 458 days ago • 3 comments