Arthur F Thurnau Professor; Professor of English Language and Literature; Professor of Linguistics; Professor of Education
About
Professor Anne Curzan is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Michigan. She also has a faculty appointment in the Linguistics Department and the School of Education. Professor Curzan specializes in research on the history of English and has also published on language and gender, corpus linguistics, lexicography, and pedagogy. Her most recent book is Fixing English: Prescriptivism and Language History (2014). She is also co-author with Michael Adams of the textbookHow English Works: A Linguistic Introduction. Professor Curzan appears weekly on "That's What They Say" on Michigan Radio, blogs for Lingua Franca, and was co-editor of the Journal of English Linguistics for nine years.
Field(s) of Study
- History of English, language and gender, corpus linguistics, historical sociolinguistics, lexicography, pedagogy, composition and rhetoric, Old and Middle English language and literature