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.

Juliette Wells
Born
Juliette C. Wells

(1974-12-26) December 26, 1974 (age 49)
NationalityAmerican
Academic background
Alma materYale University
Academic work
DisciplineLiterature
InstitutionsJohns Hopkins University
Manhattanville College
Yale University

Education

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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

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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 Penguin Books editions 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

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Books

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  • Wells, Juliette (2012). Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1441118998.[7]
  • Hagan, Sandra; Wells, Juliette (2016). The Brontës in the World of the Arts. Routledge. ISBN 978-1351893503.[8]
  • Wells, Juliette (2017). Reading Austen in America. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1350012066.[9]

Editor

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  • Austen, Jane (2008). Wells, Juliette (ed.). Pride and Prejudice. Contributed by Vivien Jones and Tony Tanner. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1440657573.
  • Austen, Jane (2011). Wells, Juliette (ed.). Persuasion. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-1101535288.
  • Austen, Jane (2015). Wells, Juliette (ed.). Emma. Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0143107712.

References

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  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.
  3. ^ Wells, Juliette (December 2003). "Accomplished Women: Gender, Artistry, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century England". ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. ProQuest 305298761.
  4. ^ "University of Mary Washington to Host Juliette Wells for Lecture on Jane Austen". October 10, 2015. Archived from the original on April 18, 2018. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. ^ "2009-2010 Scholar Juliette Wells". Goucher College. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
  6. ^ Faatz, Kris (July 10, 2015). "The Emma Project". Little Patuxent Review. Retrieved April 17, 2018.
  7. ^ Reviews of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination:
    • Hall, Lynda A. (2013). "Review of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination". Studies in the Novel. 45 (2): 322–323. doi:10.1353/sdn.2013.0028. JSTOR 41955675. S2CID 162134012.
    • Warner, William B. (August 1, 2013). "Everybody's Jane as a Nobody". Novel. 46 (2): 340–343. doi:10.1215/00295132-2088238. ISSN 0029-5132.
    • Russell, Kathryn Pratt (2011). "Review of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination, ; Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures". South Atlantic Review. 76 (3): 151–157. JSTOR 43739128.
  8. ^ Reviews of The Brontës in the World of the Arts:
  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.