Month: September 2000
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Catriona Seth – linguist of the month of September 2018
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW The interviewer Trudy Obi The interviewee Catriona Seth Trudy Obi holds a PhD in English literature from UC Berkeley, where she wrote a dissertation on conceptions of intellectual labor in early modern Europe. Her research interests include rhetoric and humanist pedagogy, French literature, and neo-Latin poetry. She has worked as an in-house French to…
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An Interview With Jean Moorcroft Wilson – biographer of Siegfried Sassoon
An Interview With Jean Moorcroft Wilson By Hannah Hunter Siegfried Sassoon (1886 – 1967) was born in England to a Jewish father and a Catholic mother. He was a satirical poet who also wrote prose but who gained prominence for his poems of World War1– a war in which he performed acts of great bravery…
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Jean-Marc and Livia Dewaele – linguists of the month of September 2016 (part 1)
For the first time in over 50 interviews conducted on this blog, our guests this month are a father and daughter – the former a professor of Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at Birkbeck, University of London, the latter a BA student of Linguistics and French at Worcester College, University of Oxford. Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele was…
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Annie Freud – linguist of the month of September
Our guest this month, Annie Freud is a distinguished British poet and one of the members of the Freud lineage to gain fame for their intellectual achievements. She is the daughter of painter Lucian Freud, the maternal granddaughter of sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, and the great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud. [1] Freud was educated at the Lycée…