Linda A. Myers

Haslam Chair of Business & Distinguished Professor of Accounting, University of Tennessee

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. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 2001 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 received the AAA’s Notable Contribution to the Auditing Literature Award in 2014, the AAA’s Financial Accounting and Reporting Section Best Paper Award in 2009, and the Financial Executives Research Foundation’s Award for the Outstanding Accounting Review Article in 2004. Her research has been cited in The Economist and the New York Times, as well as by the PCAOB and the SEC, and she has been quoted on Marketplace Business. Linda serves as Deputy-Editor-in-Chief at Contemporary Accounting Research, and an Editor at Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Accounting Horizon, and Journal of International Accounting Research. She also serves as an Associate / Conference Editor at Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Finance, and an Ad-hoc Editor at The Accounting Review. Her research interests include audit markets, capital markets, corporate disclosure, and financial reporting quality. She currently teaches a Ph.D. seminar in Accounting and serves as Director of the Ph.D. Program in Accounting at UTK.