Jeremy J. Smith is a British philologist who is Professor of
English Philology at the
University of Glasgow.
Biography
Jeremy J. Smith has served as Professor of
English Philology at the
University of Glasgow since 2000.
He is also a Visiting Professor at the
University of Stavanger
The University of Stavanger (Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Stavanger,'' UiS) is a university located in Stavanger, Norway. UiS was established in 2005 when the former Stavanger University College (''Høgskolen i Stavanger''; HiS) received univer ...
. Smith specialises in English historical linguistics, in the history of
Scots
Scots usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
* Scots language, a language of the West Germanic language family native to Scotland
* Scots people, a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland
* Scoti, a Latin na ...
, and in the textual cultures of
Britain and
Ireland. He has published a number of books and articles, and teaches a range of courses, in these areas, in which he is internationally renowned.
Smith is a founding member of the Medieval Manuscripts Research Consortium, a member of the Board of Trustees of
Scottish Language Dictionaries Ltd and the Council of the Scottish Text Society, a Fellow of the
English Association, a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh,
and an Honorary Fellow of the
Association for Scottish Literary Studies
The Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) is a Scottish educational charitable organization, charity, founded in 1970 to promote and support the teaching, study and writing of Scottish literature. Its founding members included the Sco ...
. He is currently President of the
International Society for the Linguistics of English The International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), founded in 2008, is a learned society of linguists. The organization's goals are to promote the study of the English Language at an international level, with a particular focus on the ...
.
Selected bibliography
* ''Scots and English in the letters of John Knox'', 2010
* ''Older Scots: A Linguistic Reader'', 2012
Notes and references
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Academics of the University of Glasgow
Anglo-Saxon studies scholars
British philologists
Fellows of the English Association
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Academic staff of the University of Stavanger
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people