Serena Loftus

Dr. Serena Loftus joined the faculty of Kent State University in 2021. Her research focuses on how managers’ language choices impact investors’ and employees’ reactions to accounting information. Her research has been published in premier academic journals including Accounting, Organizations, and Society and The Accounting Review. Her research has also appeared in news outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Workspan, Strategic Finance Magazine, and Investor Relations Magazine.

Professor Loftus teaches Intermediate Accounting II at Kent State University. She previously taught Management Accounting at Tulane University, where she received the Dean’s Excellence in Teaching of Undergraduates Award in 2018. She is a Certified Management Accountant (CMA).

Awards

• 2021 Top 50 Undergraduate Business Professor, Poets & Quants. (2022).
• Featured Faculty of the Month, Kent State University Center for Teaching and Learning. (2022).
• Outstanding Reviewer Award, AAA Management Accounting Section Annual Meeting. (2022).
• Outstanding Reviewer Award, AAA Management Accounting Section Annual Meeting. (2020).
• Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Management Accounting Research. (2020).
• Best Reviewer Award, AAA Annual Meeting (Management Accounting Section). (2019).
• Faculty Fellowship, Lepage Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Tulane University. (2019).
• Outstanding Reviewer Award, AAA Management Accounting Section Midyear Meeting. (2019).
• Dean’s Excellence in Teaching of Undergraduates Award, Tulane University. (2018).
• £15,500 Research Grant (with Jasmijn Bol and Katlijn Haesebrouck), Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. (2018).