Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Dallin J. Bailey is a Research Assistant for Dr. Cynthia Hallen in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at Brigham Young University. His duties include formatting and proofreading Webster's extensive multilingual etymologies. He has also worked as a Research Assistant for Dr. Mark Davies, preparing documents for the forthcoming COHA — Corpus of Historical American English. Richard W. Bailey is a contributor to The Oxford History ofEnglish Lexicography and a Fellow of the Dictionary Society of North America. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan. Lisa Berglund is Associate Professor of English at Buffalo State College and Executive Secretary of DSNA. She has published widely on Johnson, Piozzi, Boswell, and eighteenth-century literature. Her publications forthcoming in 2010 include an edition of Piozzi's Observations and Reflections Made in the Course ofaJourney through France, Italy and Germany (1789) for Valancourt Books; "Johnson's Biographers" in Samuel Johnson in Context, for Cambridge University Press; and "Oysters for Hodge, or Ordering Society, Writing Biography, and Feeding the Cat," in a special edition — on representing animals — of theJournalforEighteenth -Century Studies. Steve Bladey is Chief of Product Development at Omnilex, Inc. Ed Finegan is Professor of Linguistics and Law and former Chair of the Linguistics Department at the University of Southern California. His scholarly interests include corpus linguistics, forensic linguistics, the discourses of law, and English usage and its treatment in dictionaries. Among his publications are Attitudes toward English Usage: The History ofa War of Words (Teachers College Press 1980), Language in the USA (coedited with John Rickford, Cambridge University Press 2004), and Language : Its Structure and Use (Thomson/Wadsworth 2008). He has contributed chapters on grammar and usage to Cambridge History of the English Language, on English to The World's Major Languages, and on English in North America to Cambridge's single-volume A History oftheEnglish Language. He serves or has served on the editorial boards of American Speech, Corpora, DiscourseAnalysis, and English Language and Linguistics. He currently serves as a member of DSNA's Executive Board. Cynthia L. Hallen is Associate Professor ofLinguistics and English Language at Brigham Young University. She is the chief editor of an on- Notes on Contributors1 59 line lexicon for all of the words in Emily Dickinson's collected poems at edl.byu.edu. The website includes a renovated version ofNoah Webster's 1844 American Dictionary oftheEnglish language, the last edition that Webster himself worked on and the edition that Dickinson consulted for her poetic composition. She has published peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals such as Dictionaries, the Emily DickinsonJournal, and Names. Orin Hargraves is an independent lexicographer and the book review editor of Dictionaries. Don R. McCreary, Professor at the University of Georgia, works in lexicography, applied linguistics, and ESOL. He edited "DawgSpeak!" — the dictionary of UGA student slang. He has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the National University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur and at Peter Pazmany Catholic University in Budapest. He was also an Erlangen exchange professor at the Federal University of Erlangen, Germany and was a Moss Fellow at Keio University, Tokyo. Dr. McCreary is Associate Editor of theJapanese-English Science and EngineeringDictionary (OHM 1988), the English-Japanese Science and Engineering Dictionary (OHM 1993), and has authored many articles on lexicography andJapanese applied linguistics . He is on the editorial advisory board for Macmillan's learners' dictionaries . He is also the coauthor, with Fredric Dolezal, of Pedagogical lexicography Today: A Critical Bibliography on learners 'Dictionaries with Special Emphasis on Language learners and Dictionary Users (Niemeyer 1999). David Micklethwait was once an engineer, and then a barrister, specializing mainly in intellectual property. He is the author of Noah Webster and the American Dictionary (McFarland & Co. 2000). Wendalyn Nichols is a career lexicographer. She was editorial manager of Longman dictionaries and editorial director of Random House Reference, and has recendyjoined the ELT dictionaries division of Cambridge University Press. She completed this review while she was still an independent consultant; the opinions expressed are her own and not those of Cambridge University Press. Chris P. Pearce teaches rhetoric in Boston University's College of General Studies. His research interests include eighteenth-century Britain, SamuelJohnson's Dictionary, andJohnson's ideas...