Notes on Contributors
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Marc Alexander is Research Assistant for the Historical Thesaurus and Enroller projects at the University of Glasgow. His main research interests are in lexicology and the cognitive analysis of discourse, and he has past specialisms in the discourse of detective narratives and popular mathematics. He has been part of the Historical Thesaurus of English since 2005, and is currently investigating its implications for the digital humanities.
Lisa Berglund is associate professor of English at Buffalo State College and executive secretary of the Dictionary Society of North America. She has published widely on Johnson, Boswell, Piozzi, eighteenth-century literature and the history of the book. Her most recent publication is "Oysters for Hodge, or Ordering Society, Writing Biography and Feeding the Cat" (JECS 33:4 [2010]).
Tony Crowley is the Hartley Burr Alexander Chair in the Humanities at Scripps College, California and formerly Chair of Language, Literature and Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester, UK. He is currently working on James Joyce and the Language Questions and a study of the representation of the vernacular language of Liverpool. His publications include The Politics of Discourse: The Standard Language Question in British Cultural Debates (Macmillan 1989); Language in History: Theories and Texts (Routledge 1996) and Wars of Words: The Politics of Language in Ireland 1537-2004 (Oxford 2005).
Melissa Good is a lexicographer and Editor for English Profile at Cambridge University Press. She has written and presented on dictionaries and English Profile in numerous European countries and the US.
Eugene Green is a professor of English at Boston University. He has written on language and literature. He is currently preparing a pragmatic history of the English language.
Michael Hancher is professor of English at the University of Minnesota and current president of the Dictionary Society of North America. He has published many essays on British Victorian writers and artists, as well as articles on intention and interpretation, speech-act theory, pragmatics, and the law. His work on pictorial illustration includes The Tenniel Illustrations to the "Alice" Books, "Reading the Visual Text: A Christmas Carol," and several studies of illustrated dictionaries.
Joan Houston Hall is Chief Editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English. She began as an Assistant Editor of DARE in 1975, became [End Page 158] Associate Editor in 1979, and succeeded Frederic G. Cassidy as Chief Editor following his death in 2000. Her Ph.D. is from Emory University, where her dissertation focused on the Dialect Survey of Rural Georgia. She has served as President of the American Dialect Society and the Dictionary Society of North America, and was named a Fellow of DSNA in 2009.
Reinhard Hartmann pursued a career in applied linguistics and lexicography in England (University of Manchester 1964-68, University of Nottingham 1968-74, and University of Exeter 1974-2001). Since his retirement and until 2010, he has been Honorary Professor of Lexicography in the Department of English, University of Birmingham. In 1983 he founded the European Association for Lexicography (to whose website he has recently contributed a list of "reference portals"), from 1984 to 2001 he directed the Exeter Dictionary Research Centre, and from 1984 to 2008 he was a co-editor of the "Lexicographica Series Maior". He is responsible for the regular column "Reinhard's References" in the DSNA Newsletter, and is currently working on an international directory of lexicography institutions. His book publications include Contrastive Textology (1980), the Dictionary of Lexicography (with Gregory James, 1998), Teaching and Researching Lexicography (2001), and Interlingual Lexicography. Selected Essays (2007).
Robert Ilson, Honorary Research Fellow of University College London, has been Associate Director of the Survey of English Usage at UCL, Convenor of the AILA Commission on Lexicology and Lexicography, Founding Editor of the EURALEX Bulletin and the International Journal of Lexicography, and a member of the Editorial Board of OED2. A former Fulbright ELT consultant, he has also shared awards from the English-Speaking Union for BBI and for The Right Word at the Right Time.
Christian Kay is Professor Emeritus of English Language at the University of Glasgow and one of the editors of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. She was educated at the University of Edinburgh and...
