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Sabrina Strings, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. A certified yoga teacher, her work on yoga has been featured in The Feminist Wire, Yoga International, and LA Yoga. Sabrina is also an award-winning author with publications in diverse venues including, The New York Times, Scientific American, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Her book, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (NYU Press 2019), was recently re-released as an audiobook and is available on Audible, iTunes, and Google Play. Stay up to date on her latest writings, travel and speaking engagements at SabrinaStrings.com or follow her on Twitter @SaStrings.

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.