Juliette Wells

Juliette Wells is Professor of Literary Studies at Goucher College. She is the author of three histories of Austen’s readers and fans, all published by Bloomsbury Academic: _A New Jane Austen: How Americans Brought Us the World’s Greatest Novelist_ (2023), _Reading Austen in America_ (2017), and _Everybody’s Jane: Austen in the Popular Imagination_ (2011). For Penguin Classics, she created reader-friendly annotated editions of _Emma_ and _Persuasion_; her edition of _Mansfield Park_ will be published in September 2025. She is guest co-curator of the Morgan Library & Museum’s "A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250" exhibition, which will run from June 6th – September 14th, 2025 in New York City.