Susan Fitzmaurice

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Susan M. Fitzmaurice (born September 1959) is a British linguist. Since 2006, she has been professor and chair of English linguistics at the University of Sheffield as well as vice-president and head of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. [1] She works on the historical linguistics of English, specialising in historical pragmatics, socio-linguistics and computational linguistics. In 2020, she was elected president of the Philological Society. [2]

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Academic career

Fitzmaurice received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1987. [3]

From 1984 until 1986, Fitzmaurice was lecturer in linguistics at the University of Cape Town. Thereafter, she moved to the United Kingdom and became University Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St Catharine's College, where she worked from 1987 until 1995. She was appointed Professor of English at Northern Arizona University in 1995 and stayed there until 2005 before moving to the University of Sheffield. [1]

Research

Fitzmaurice was the principal investigator on the project Linguistic DNA, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. [4] [5]

Selected publications

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References

  1. 1 2 "University of Sheffield – Professor Susan M. Fitzmaurice". 23 April 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  2. "News – The Philological Society". 28 July 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  3. "Susan Fitzmaurice – ORCiD" . Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  4. "People – Linguistic DNA". 7 July 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
  5. "The Linguistic DNA of Modern Western Thought: Paradigmatic Terms in English, 1500-1800 – UK Research and Innovation" . Retrieved 20 February 2021.