William Deresiewicz, previously an English professor at Yale University, is also a writer and literary critic. His scholarly work is focused on Jane Austen. His negative reviews of certain authors have created controversy in the literary community. Academic expat.
 

"Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's stories — entering into their feelings, validating their experiences — is the highest way of acknowledging their humanity, the sweetest form of usefulness."

– William Deresiewicz