Linda A. Myers is a Distinguished Professor of Accounting and holder of the Haslam Chair of Business in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK). She graduated from the University of Michigan and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles in The Accounting Review; Journal of Accounting and Economics; Journal of Accounting Research; Contemporary Accounting Research; Review of Accounting Studies; Accounting, Organizations and Society; Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory; and Accounting Horizons, among others.
Linda has received the AAA’s Outstanding International Educator Award, the AAA’s Notable Contribution to the Auditing Literature Award, the AAA’s Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Best Paper Award, the Financial Executives Research Foundation’s Award for the Outstanding Accounting Review Article, and the AAA’s Issues in Accounting Education Best Paper Award. Her research has been cited in The Economist and the New York Times, as well as by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and she has been quoted on Marketplace Business.
Linda currently serves as a Consulting Editor at Contemporary Accounting Research and as an Editor at Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizon, and Journal of International Accounting Research. She also serves as an Associate Editor and Conference Editor at Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance,and as an Ad-hoc Editor at The Accounting Review. Her research interests are broad and include audit markets, corporate disclosure, capital markets, and financial reporting quality. She currently teaches a Ph.D. seminar in Accounting, and previously served as Director of the Ph.D. Program in Accounting at UTK and at the University of Arkansas.