We are joined by Dr. Devoney Looser, a writer and professor at Arizona State University. Devoney talks about her new book, Wild for Austen, that honors and explores Austen's writings, life, and legacy, just in time for the celebration her 250th birthday on December 16. 2025!

To learn more about Dr. Devoney Looser visit https://www.devoneylooser.com/

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The Race and Regency Pod works as a dynamic sonic space to lend an ear to all things Race and Regency. Using the intimacy, accessibility, and fluidity of the medium, this podcast brings together the public, artists, curators, librarians, scholars, and cultural critics who share their passion for questions of race in this period. Unlike ideas and engagements that can often stay confined behind academic paywalls, this podcast facilitates space for community members, and connoisseurs of the Regency era to think together and build together.

Listening with and to a range of people who speak in varied accents and tones, The Race and Regency Pod works as a practice in embodied scholarship. We imagine what enthusiasm and engagement sound like when directed towards sharing, community building, resistance, and self-expression. This podcast will house diverse conversations that expand the conception of the Regency era thematically, geographically, and temporally, by considering how we inherit formulations of race from this period and engage with them now.