Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors Charlotte Brewer is Tutorial Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford , and CUF Lecturer at Oxford University. Author of Editing Piers Plowman: The Evolution of the Text (Cambridge UP, 1996) and mainly a medievalist through 2000, her research now focuses on the Oxford English Dictionary. She is currently writing a book about the history of the OED from 1928 to the present; her investigation of the OED's sources won a DSNA/Urdang Award in Lexicography (2005) — see . Monique C. Cormier holds a doctorate from the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. She is a Professor in the Département de Linguistique et de Traduction at the Université de Montréal, where she has taught terminology since 1988. For the past several years, she has been working on French-English bilingual dictionaries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and in particular those by Frenchspeaking Protestants. Her research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. With Aline Francœur and Jean-Claude Boulanger, she recently edited Les Dictionnaires le Robert: Genèse et Évolution (Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2003). Aline Francœur is an Assistant Professor at the School of Translation and Interpretation at the University of Ottawa. She has been involved in various research projects in lexicography since 1994. She completed her Ph.D. in 2001 at the Université de Montréal; her thesis addressed the topic of prefatory discourse in French dictionaries . Since then, her research has focused mainly on bilingual dictionaries , especially Guy Miège's New Dictionary French and English, published in London in 1677. With Monique C. Cormier andJean-Claude Boulanger, she recently edited Les Dictionnaires le Robert: Genèse et Évolution (Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2003). Peter Gilliver is an Associate Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. He has recently been commissioned to write a history of the OED, from its beginning in the 1850s to the launch of the OED Online. Orin Hargraves is an independent lexicographer who has contributed to many dictionaries and other language reference works from US, UK, and European publishers. His articles have appeared in The Vocabula Review, Verbatim: The Language Quarterly, and English Today. Notes on Contributors1 81 He is the author of Mighty Fine Words and SmashingExpressions: Making Sense of Transatlantic English (Oxford UP, 2003) and the forthcoming SlangRules! (Merriam-Webster) . Elizabeth Knowles is a historical lexicographer who worked on the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary and the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (4th edition) and is now Publishing Manager for Quotations Dictionaries at Oxford University Press. She is the current Editor of the Oxford Dictionary ofQuotations. Andrea R. Nagy is Lecturer in English at Yale University. She has written extensively on the history of dictionaries in seventeenthcentury England, and she was a project editor for the New Oxford American Dictionary (2001). Julie Anne Zorn is a graduate student at Auburn University, where she also received her B. A. in English. She is currently pursuing an M. A. in Technical and Professional Communication with a coordinated minor in Linguistics. While working toward her master's degree, she has served as a graduate teaching assistant in the English Department and as a consultant in the English Center, Auburn University's writing center. After graduation in May 2005, she plans to earn a doctorate in language and communication. ...