Julie Tetel Andresen (born 1950) is a prominent American linguistic historiographer and romance novelist. Andresen is a professor at Duke University, where she has taught since 1986. Her primary appointment is in the Department of English. She has secondary appointments in the Departments of Cultural Anthropology and Slavic and Eurasian Studies. She is currently the chair of the Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics. Source: Wikipedia (en)