Deborah Lutz

Deborah Lutz is the author of six books, most recently This Dark Night: Emily Brontė, A Life. A previous book, The Brontė Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects, was shortlisted for the PEN/Weld Award for Biography.

She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library, and has twice been awarded National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships.

She teaches Victorian literature and culture at Pennsylvania State University as the George and Barbara Kelly Professor in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature. Past honors include fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Cabinet Magazine, and many other venues, and she is the editor of two Norton Critical Editions—Jane Eyre and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.