Joanna Scott

Author Joanna Scott is the Roswell Smith Burrows Professor of English and the Director of Literary Arts Programs at the University of Rochester. Her novels include De Potter's Grand Tour (2014), Follow Me (2009), Liberation (2005), Tourmaline (2003), and Make Believe (2000). Everybody Loves Somebody (2006) and Various Antidotes (2005) are among her collection of stories. She is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Award.

In her writing, she explores character and the motion of thought; the effects of varied narrative form; contradictory perceptions of time and place; the idiosyncracies of voice; mystery and the impact of disclosure; beauty and ugliness; comedy, temptation, collapse, and recovery; and the elusive potential of imagination.

Scott envisions fresh perspectives in the use of historical and scientific material in fiction.