Contact
Faculty of Arts - English & Film Studies Dept
- jc18@ualberta.ca
- Address
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4-55 Humanities Centre
11121 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2H5
Overview
About
I was educated at Bedford Modern School in England, and at Hertford College, Oxford. While I was a student, I did some freelance work for the Oxford English Dictionary; after earning my doctorate, I became one of its assistant editors, working on etymologies; I continue to do consultancy work for the dictionary. I taught at the University of Alberta from 1996 to 2021.
Research
I am writing a new history of dictionaries in the English-speaking world in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, which is under contract with Oxford University Press; the first volume, treating the sixteenth century, will appear in 2022, and I am at work on the second.
Publications
The Cambridge World History of Lexicography
Author(s): John Considine (editor)
Publication Date:
2019
Small Dictionaries and Curiosity
Author(s): John Considine
Publication Date:
2017
Academy Dictionaries 1600-1800
Author(s): John Considine
Publication Date:
2014
Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe
Author(s): John Considine
Publication Date:
2008