Juliette Wells Explained

Juliette Wells
Birth Name:Juliette C. Wells
Birth Date:26 December 1974
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:Yale University
Workplaces:Johns Hopkins University
Manhattanville College
Yale University
Discipline:Literature

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 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.

Selected works

Books

Editor

Notes and References

  1. Web site: LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress). id.loc.gov. The Library of Congress. 2018-04-17.
  2. Web site: Juliette Wells. Goucher College. en. 2018-04-17.
  3. Wells. Juliette. December 2003. Accomplished Women: Gender, Artistry, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century England. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. .
  4. 2015-10-10. University of Mary Washington to Host Juliette Wells for Lecture on Jane Austen. https://web.archive.org/web/20180418031839/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-3831951941.html. dead. 2018-04-18.
  5. Web site: 2009-2010 Scholar Juliette Wells. Goucher College. en. 2018-04-17.
  6. Web site: The Emma Project. Faatz. Kris. 2015-07-10. Little Patuxent Review. en. 2018-04-17.
  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. 41955675. Studies in the Novel. 45. 2. 322–323. 10.1353/sdn.2013.0028. 162134012.
    • Warner. William B.. 2013-08-01. Everybody's Jane as a Nobody. Novel. en. 46. 2. 340–343. 10.1215/00295132-2088238. 0029-5132.
    • Russell. Kathryn Pratt. 2011. Review of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination, ; Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures. 43739128. South Atlantic Review. 76. 3. 151–157.
  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. 10.2979/vic.2010.52.3.480. Victorian Studies. 52. 3. 480–482. 10.2979/vic.2010.52.3.480. 142928523.
    • Miller. Kathleen A.. 2009. Review of THE BRONTËS IN THE WORLD OF THE ARTS. 40783488. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. 28. 1. 195–197.
  9. Reviews of Reading Austen in America:
    • November 2017. Reading Austen in America. ProtoView. Beaverton. Ringgold Inc.. 2017. 44.
    • July 2017. Reading Austen in America. Publishers Weekly. PWxyz LLC. 264. 29. 208. 0000-0019.

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