{"id":51673,"date":"2024-02-19T15:31:14","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T15:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/?p=51673"},"modified":"2024-07-02T15:40:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T15:40:45","slug":"auggie-spotlight-devoney-looser-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/alumni\/2024\/02\/19\/auggie-spotlight-devoney-looser-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Auggie Spotlight: Devoney Looser ’89"},"content":{"rendered":"
Meet Devoney Looser \u201989, BA (English) minors in French and communication, summa cum laude, with Honors. Devoney is an internationally recognized expert on the history of women\u2019s writings, feminist literary criticism, and Jane Austen\u2014has worked in higher education for thirty years. She is Regents Professor of English and Global Sport Scholar at Arizona State University, where she\u2019s taught since 2013 and a recipient of this year’s Augsburg Distinguished Alumni Award.\"Devoney<\/em><\/div>\n
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What keeps you busy these days? <\/strong>I\u2019m working on a new book,\u00a0Wild for Austen<\/em>, for St. Martin\u2019s Press, for publication in fall 2025, to coincide with the celebration of the 250th<\/sup> anniversary of Austen\u2019s birth. For play, I\u2019m skating with a wonderful roller derby team, Roughneck Roller Derby, in Tulsa, OK. (I work in Arizona, but I spend weekends with my husband and our younger son in Tulsa.)<\/div>\n
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How did Augsburg shape your path?<\/strong> Augsburg completely transformed my path. I was a first-generation college student, who needed (and received!) not only financial support but a lot of guidance. I started college as a shy and quiet student; I ended up with so many opportunities to grow, through student leadership roles in the newspaper, yearbook, and literary magazine, as well as the orientation program and the library, where I worked. Augsburg\u2019s faculty and staff shaped\u2014and still shape\u2014my path, through their generous sharing of wisdom, support, and opportunities.<\/div>\n
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Who is an Auggie (alumni, faculty\/staff, friend, etc.) that has impacted you and why? <\/strong>The fact that there are so many Augsburg faculty and staff I could name who had a positive impact on me is inspiring, right? The one I\u2019d like to mention here is English Professor Cathie Nicholl. Cathie is the person who first suggested I should go to graduate school. What she said during an advising session was, \u201cDon\u2019t drop your French class. You\u2019ll need that for graduate school.\u201d I always joke that, at this moment, I thought to myself, \u201cWait a minute! I\u2019m going to graduate school?\u201d But there\u2019s some truth to that! It\u2019s a moment that felt like a light bulb going off in my head, and her support and encouragement is what set me on the path to the PhD and to a career as an academic and a writer.<\/div>\n
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\"Two<\/a>What is a fun or favorite memory of your time at Augsburg?<\/strong> I have very happy memories of our rushing to meet late-night editing and production deadlines for the\u00a0Echo<\/i>\u00a0newspaper. That\u2019s where I first started to drink coffee but, more importantly, made lifelong friends. I also remember fondly a winter night hanging out with\u00a0Echo\u00a0<\/i>staff, including co-editor Steve Aggergaard, that ended with our making snow angels in Murphy Square.<\/div>\n
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Thank you Devoney!<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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