Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Michael Adams is Provost Professor of English Language at Indiana University and is currently president of the American Dialect Society. His most recent book is In Praise of Profanity (Oxford, 2016). His critical-historical edition of Fred W. Householder and Sol Saporta’s Problems in Lexicography will be published by Indiana University Press in 2020.
Deborah Cameron is Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford, where she teaches linguistics, English, and women’s studies. She is the author of several books about language, gender, and feminism and writes regularly on that subject for a non- academic audience on her blog Language: A Feminist Guide. Her most recent publication is Feminism: A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, and Politics of the Movement (University of Chicago Press, 2019).
Dominic Cheetham is a lecturer in children’s literature at Sophia University, Tokyo. He has written a number of papers on a variety of themes in children’s literature, including “Dahl’s Neologisms,” published in Children’s Literature in Education in 2016.
Michael Hancher, professor of English at the University of Minnesota, is the author of The Tenniel Illustrations to the “Alice” Books. A former president of the Dictionary Society of North America, he has published articles about pictorial illustration in dictionaries; articles and book chapters about Victorian writers and artists; and accounts of pragmatic strategies for construing literary and legal texts.
Elizabeth Knowles began her career as a historical lexicographer at Oxford University Press in 1977, working as a library researcher for the second Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary. She was subsequently a senior editor for a major revision of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (4th edition, 1993), when she was responsible for the dictionary’s historical research program. She took over responsibility for the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations in 1993 and has edited the last four editions (8th edition, 2014). Other editorial credits for OUP include What They Didn’t Say: A Book of Misquotations (2006) and How to Read a Word (2010). Her most recent book is And I Quote . . . A History of Using Other People’s Words (OUP, 2018). She served as editor of this journal from 2010 to 2013 and is a Fellow of the Dictionary Society of North America and the Society’s current president.
Anatoly Liberman received all his degrees, including the one corresponding to the European Habilitation, from the former Soviet Union. He immigrated to the United States in 1975 and has been a professor at the University of Minnesota ever since. His areas of specialization include general and historical linguistics (especially phonology and etymology), lexicography, European structuralism, medieval Germanic literature, poetic translation (with an emphasis on the Golden Age of Russian poetry), and literary criticism. He is the author of nearly 700 publications, eighteen of which are books. His most recent books are In Prayer and Laughter: Essays on Medieval and Germanic Mythology, Literature, and Culture (Paleograph Press, 2016) and The Saga Mind and the Beginnings of Icelandic Prose (Edwin Mellen, 2018).
Caroline Myrick holds a Ph.D. in sociology and an M.A. in English linguistics from North Carolina State University, where she specialized in sociolinguistics and inequality of race, class, and gender. Her research has examined language variation and change in the Caribbean, as well as gender inequality as it relates to language in higher education. She has numerous publications based on the sociolinguistic fieldwork she carried out on Saba, a small island in the Dutch Caribbean. She assisted in the publication of the first Saban English dictionary, A Lee Chip (NCLLP, 2016). Her most recent book publication is The Five-Minute Linguist (3rd edition, Equinox, 2019), which she co-edited with Walt Wolfram.
Stephen Turton is a Greendale Scholar at Merton College, University of Oxford, where his doctoral research focuses on representations of gender and sexuality in English dictionaries from the seventeenth century to the present day. He holds a Master of Studies in English Language from the University of Oxford and a Master of Arts in Linguistics from the University of the Witwatersrand. His interests include language ideology, slang, queer linguistics, public perceptions of lexicography, and the history of literary censorship.
