Juliette Wells
{{Short description|American author}}
{{Use American English|date=April 2018}}{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2018}}
{{Infobox academic
| name =Juliette Wells
| birth_name = Juliette C. Wells
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|12|26}}
| nationality = American
| alma_mater =Yale University
| workplaces =Johns Hopkins University
Manhattanville College
Yale University
| discipline =Literature
}}
Juliette C. Wells (born December 26, 1974){{Cite web|url=http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007060377|title=LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies (Library of Congress)|website=id.loc.gov|others=The Library of Congress|access-date=2018-04-17}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.goucher.edu/learn/academic-centers/humanities/faculty/juliette-wells|title=Juliette Wells|website=Goucher College|language=en|access-date=2018-04-17}} Under her doctoral advisor Ruth Yeazell, she completed her dissertation entitled Accomplished Women: Gender, Artistry, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century England.{{Cite journal|last=Wells|first=Juliette|date=December 2003|title=Accomplished Women: Gender, Artistry, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century England|journal=ProQuest Dissertations Publishing|id={{ProQuest|305298761}}}}
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.{{Cite journal|date=2015-10-10|title=University of Mary Washington to Host Juliette Wells for Lecture on Jane Austen|url=https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-3831951941.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180418031839/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-3831951941.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2018-04-18}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.goucher.edu/library/about-the-library/library-prizes-and-awards/the-burke-austen-scholar-in-residence-program/2009-2010-scholar-juliette-wells|title=2009-2010 Scholar Juliette Wells|website=Goucher College|language=en|access-date=2018-04-17}} In 2015, she served as the chair of the English department at Goucher.{{Cite web|url=https://littlepatuxentreview.org/tag/dr-juliette-wells/|title=The Emma Project|last=Faatz|first=Kris|date=2015-07-10|website=Little Patuxent Review|language=en|access-date=2018-04-17}} 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 =
- {{Cite book|title=Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination|last=Wells|first=Juliette|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|year=2012|isbn=978-1441118998}}Reviews of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination:
- {{Cite journal|last=Hall|first=Lynda A.|date=2013|title=Review of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination|jstor=41955675|journal=Studies in the Novel|volume=45|issue=2|pages=322–323|doi=10.1353/sdn.2013.0028|s2cid=162134012}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Warner|first=William B.|date=2013-08-01|title=Everybody's Jane as a Nobody|journal=Novel|language=en|volume=46|issue=2|pages=340–343|doi=10.1215/00295132-2088238|issn=0029-5132}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Russell|first=Kathryn Pratt|date=2011|title=Review of Everybody's Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination, ; Jane Austen's Cults and Cultures|jstor=43739128|journal=South Atlantic Review|volume=76|issue=3|pages=151–157}}
- {{Cite book|title=The Brontës in the World of the Arts|last1=Hagan|first1=Sandra|last2=Wells|first2=Juliette|publisher=Routledge|year=2016|isbn=978-1351893503}}Reviews of The Brontës in the World of the Arts:
- {{Cite journal|last=Badowska|first=Eva|date=2010|title=The Brontës in the World of the Arts, edited by Sandra Hagan and Juliette Wells|jstor=10.2979/vic.2010.52.3.480|journal=Victorian Studies|volume=52|issue=3|pages=480–482|doi=10.2979/vic.2010.52.3.480|s2cid=142928523}}
- {{Cite journal|last=Miller|first=Kathleen A.|date=2009|title=Review of THE BRONTËS IN THE WORLD OF THE ARTS|jstor=40783488|journal=Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature|volume=28|issue=1|pages=195–197}}
- {{Cite book|title=Reading Austen in America|last=Wells|first=Juliette|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|year=2017|isbn=978-1350012066}}Reviews of Reading Austen in America:
- {{Cite journal|date=November 2017|title=Reading Austen in America|journal=ProtoView|location=Beaverton|publisher=Ringgold Inc.|volume=2017|issue=44}}
- {{Cite journal|date=July 2017|title=Reading Austen in America|journal=Publishers Weekly|publisher=PWxyz LLC|volume=264|issue=29|pages=208|issn=0000-0019}}
= Editor =
- {{Cite book|title=Pride and Prejudice|last=Austen|first=Jane|publisher=Penguin Books|others=Contributed by Vivien Jones and Tony Tanner|year=2008|isbn=978-1440657573|editor-last=Wells|editor-first=Juliette}}
- {{Cite book|title=Persuasion|last=Austen|first=Jane|publisher=Penguin Books|year=2011|isbn=978-1101535288|editor-last=Wells|editor-first=Juliette}}
- {{Cite book|title=Emma|last=Austen|first=Jane|publisher=Penguin Books|year=2015|isbn=978-0143107712|editor-last=Wells|editor-first=Juliette}}
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