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Devoney Looser is an expert on 18th and 19th-century British literature, women鈥檚 writings, and Jane Austen.

She is the author or editor of seven books on literature by women and a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow and NEH Public Scholar. Her most recent book, "The Making of Jane Austen" (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), was a Publishers Weekly Best Summer Book (Nonfiction) and received the Inside Higher Ed Reader鈥檚 Choice Award. 

She is a Foundation Professor of English and in conjunction with ASU's Global Sport Institute, she is working on a book-length project that tracks the history of roller derby, a sport she participates in occasionally as faculty advisor for the ASU Roller Derby club team. 

Looser鈥檚 essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Salon, and the TLS. She writes regularly on professional issues for The Chronicle of Higher Education. She's been a quoted authority about Jane Austen for CNN, The New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal.

George Justice writes and consults on issues of higher education leadership and administration and has scholarly expertise in 18th-century British literature. 

With Carolyn Dever, Justice is a regular columnist for Inside Higher Ed exploring topics such as research expenditure calculations and models for healthy decision-making. Justice is also the author and editor of scholarship on the literary marketplace, authorship, and women's writing.

From 2013 to 2017, Justice served as ASU's Dean of Humanities and Associate Vice President for Arts and Humanities. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Marquette University, Louisiana State University, and the University of Missouri, where he also served as vice provost for advanced studies and dean of the Graduate School.

His recent book, "How to Be a Dean," was published in 2019 by the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Almjeld's research centers on digital rhetorics, identity performances, feminist methodologies and community engagement. Her recent work considers ways that gendered identities and digital spaces intersect to encourage certain identities and empower and limit identity performances. Almjeld is particularly interested in girlhood identities in regard to girls as technology users and girls as leaders. For several years she has lead girls' technology and leadership summer camps and afterschool programs and is currently researching the language of leadership related to girls and girlhood. Almjeld also participates in and researches community engagement partnerships in higher education. She is currently working with a team of researchers to study the barriers university faculty face when working with community partners and strategies for overcoming those obstacles. 

Jared Featherstone is a teacher of writing, mindfulness, and critical thinking. Drawing from his teaching experience and research, he writes and gives talks on the subject of mindfulness and learning. Since 2009, he has directed the University Writing Center and taught writing courses at James Madison University in Virginia. Before entering academia full-time, he worked as a reporter and editor, and earned a master's of fine arts in creative writing and a bachelor's in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park.
He began practicing meditation and Tai Chi in 1996 and was asked to start teaching mindfulness meditation in 2009. In 2018, he completed the two-year Koru Mindfulness teacher certification. In 2021, he will complete Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s two-year mindfulness teacher certification program in partnership with the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley. He has published several articles on the subject of mindfulness and learning, and given numerous invited talks on the subject. His guided meditations can be found on and .