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Suzanne RomaineSuzanne Romaine has been Merton Professor of English Language at the University of Oxford since 1984. Prior to this, she was senior research scientist in Linguistic Anthropology, at the Max-Planck-Institut-für-Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, Netherlands, and Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Birmingham, England. She was educated at Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (A.B. magna cum laude, 1973, German/Linguistics), University of Edinburgh, Scotland (M.Litt. 1975, Phonetics/Linguistics), and received her Ph.D in 1981 (Linguistics, University of Birmingham, England). In 1998 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Tromsø in Norway, and in 1999 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala in Sweden. She has held a variety of scholarships and visiting fellowships at other universities, including the Rotary International Foundation fellowship (University of Edinburgh) and the Canada Commonwealth Scholarship (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto). In 1991-1992 she was Kerstin Hesselgren Professor at the University of Uppsala. This award for outstanding women in the Humanities is sponsored by the Swedish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Her research interests lie primarily in historical linguistics and sociolinguistics, especially in problems of societal multilingualism, linguistic diversity, language change, language acquisition, and language contact in the broadest sense. Other areas of interest include corpus linguistics, language and gender, literacy, and bilingual/immersion education. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Europe (first on the language of working class schoolchildren in Scotland and subsequently on patterns of bilingualism and language loss among Panjabi speakers in England) as well as in the Pacific Islands region (first in Papua New Guinea on the language of rural and urban schoolchildren, and most recently in Hawai'i).
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