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Juliette C. Wells (born December 26, 1974)[1] is an American author, editor, and Jane Austen scholar. She is the Elizabeth Conolly Todd Distinguished Professor of English in the Center for the Humanities at Goucher College. In 2015, Wells served as the chair of the English department at Goucher. Her work focuses on women's writing and 18th and 19th century British literature, especially that of Jane Austen.

Education

Wells earned a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Music, and a Master of Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1997. She obtained a Master of Arts degree and a Master of Philosophy at Yale University in 2000. In 2003, she completed her doctorate at Yale.[2] Under her doctoral advisor Ruth Yeazell, she completed her dissertation entitled Accomplished Women: Gender, Artistry, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century England.[3]

Career

Wells' work focuses on women's writing and 18th and 19th century British literature, especially that of Jane Austen. She has also written works on Charlotte Brontë.[4] She is the editor of three of Penguin Books versions of Jane Austen works. In 2009, Wells was an associate professor of English at Manhattanville College. From 2009 to 2010 she was the Goucher College Burke Jane Austen Scholar-in-Residence.[5] In 2015, she served as the chair of the English department at Goucher.[6] As of 2018, she is the Elizabeth Conolly Todd Distinguished Professor of English in the Center for the Humanities at Goucher. Wells is a member of the Modern Language Association, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. In 2013, she joined the editorial board of the Jane Austen Society of North America.[2]

Selected works

Books

  • Wells, Juliette (2012). Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 1441118993.[7]
  • Hagan, Sandra; Wells, Juliette (2016). The Brontës in the World of the Arts. Routledge. ISBN 1351893505.[8]
  • Wells, Juliette (2017). Reading Austen in America. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 1350012068.[9]

Editor

  • Austen, Jane (2008). Wells, Juliette (ed.). Pride and Prejudice. Contributed by Vivien Jones and Tony Tanner. Penguin Books. ISBN 1440657572.
  • Austen, Jane (2011). Wells, Juliette (ed.). Persuasion. Penguin Books. ISBN 1101535288.
  • Austen, Jane (2015). Wells, Juliette (ed.). Emma. Penguin Books. ISBN 0143107712.

References

  1. ^ "LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)". id.loc.gov. The Library of Congress. Retrieved April 17, 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  2. ^ a b "Juliette Wells". Goucher College. Retrieved April 17, 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  3. ^ Wells, Juliette (December 2003). "Accomplished Women: Gender, Artistry, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century England". ProQuest Dissertations Publishing.
  4. ^ "University of Mary Washington to Host Juliette Wells for Lecture on Jane Austen". October 10, 2015. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ "2009-2010 Scholar Juliette Wells". Goucher College. Retrieved April 17, 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  6. ^ Faatz, Kris (July 10, 2015). "The Emma Project". Little Patuxent Review. Retrieved April 17, 2018. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  7. ^ Reviews of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination:
  8. ^ Reviews of The Brontës in the World of the Arts:
    • Badowska, Eva (2010). "The Brontës in the World of the Arts, edited by Sandra Hagan and Juliette Wells". Victorian Studies. 52 (3): 480–482. doi:10.2979/vic.2010.52.3.480. JSTOR 10.2979/vic.2010.52.3.480.
    • Miller, Kathleen A. (2009). "Review of THE BRONTËS IN THE WORLD OF THE ARTS". Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 28 (1): 195–197. JSTOR 40783488.
  9. ^ Reviews of Reading Austen in America:
    • "Reading Austen in America". ProtoView. 2017 (44). Beaverton: Ringgold Inc. November 2017.
    • "Reading Austen in America". Publishers Weekly. 264 (29). PWxyz LLC: 208. July 2017. ISSN 0000-0019.
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