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Cecilia  Ford

Cecilia Ford

Professor Emerita, English and sociology

Expert on sociolinguistics, specializing in conversation analysis, gender and language, and the uses of language in spoken interaction

Robin Valenza

Robin Valenza

Associate professor, English

Expert on 18th- and 19th-century British literature and culture, history of academic disciplines, digital humanities, graphic novel, 20th/21st-century comic books

Anja Wanner

Anja Wanner

Professor, English

Expert on the English language (grammar, standards, genres, academic writing, spelling, language change, language use on the Internet, "Grammar Badgers" website)

Richard Young

Richard Young

Professor, English

Expert on foreign language-learning in adults and bilingualism

Joan Hall

Joan Hall

Chief Editor Emerita, Dictionary of American Regional English; Distinguished Scientist; English

Expert on the American English language and its regional and social dialects

Thomas Purnell

Associate professor, English

Expert on sounds of human languages, specifically regional and ethnic pronunciation and differences by social groups