Professor Lynda Mugglestone

Lynda Mugglestone is Professor of the History of English at Oxford University, and a Fellow of Pembroke College. She has published widely on the history of English, with particular reference to historical phonology as well as lexicography and lexical history. Publications include Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary, Dictionaries: A Very Short Introduction, The Oxford History of English, Samuel Johnson: the Arc of the Pendulum OUP, and Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words, as well as many articles and book chapters, and an edited collection on the OED. Her most recent book was Writing a War of Words. Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in WWI. She has recently been awarded a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship in association with Johnson’s House in London, and will be curating a new interpretative exhibition in the dictionary garret which opens on July 3rd 2024. She will be taking up a Houghton Library Fellowship at  Harvard next year to continue work on Samuel Johnson for a new book on Samuel Johnson’s garret lexicography.