Hello and welcome to my personal website!

My name is Hannah I am a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex.

I teach on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. I mainly teach topics related to language structure and meaning (syntax, semantics), but I also cover broader introductory topics in linguistics and the study of language, research methods, typology, and the languages of Africa and the African diaspora.

I am interested in linguistic variation, particularly how and why languages change.  I am also interested the relationship between linguistics and social justice. You can find out more on my research page.

Prior to joining Essex, I was a postdoctoral researcher at Osaka University and a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at SOAS, University of London. In 2018 I was a Visiting Professor  at Ghent University. Since 2018 I have been a Research Associate of the University of the Free State in South Africa.

I have been learning British Sign Language for the last 3 years and have just completed my Level 3 certificate!

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