Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey is the Peter T. Grauer Distinguished Professor in the department of English and comparative literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness. She is president of the Jane Austen Collaborative, a cofounder of the Jane Austen Summer Program, a regular host on Jane Austen & Co., and the principal investigator of Jane Austen's Desk.