Simon Horobin


Simon Horobin is a British philologist and author.
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Life and career

Horobin graduated from the University of Sheffield. He is a professor of English language and literature at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Magdalen College. Prior to joining Magdalen in 2006, Horobin was a reader of English language at the University of Glasgow.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut, Harvard University, and Charles University. He has also acted as honorary secretary for the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature.
Horobin has appeared on several radio and television programmes to discuss linguistic issues and has been interviewed for various articles in numerous national papers. He was elected a fellow of the English Association in 2020.

Selected publications

Books

The Language of the Chaucer Tradition – D.S. Brewer, 2003Chaucer's Language – Palgrave Macmillan, 2006Studying the History of Early English – Palgrave Macmillan, 2009Does Spelling Matter? – Oxford University Press, 2013How English Became English: A Short History of a Global Language – Oxford University Press, 2016The English Language: A Very Short Introduction, 2018Bagels, Bumf, and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language – Oxford University Press, 2019

Articles

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