Jacek Fisiak Memorial Lecture 2022 by Prof. Simon Horobin (Magdalen College, Oxford) — 13-05-2022 13:00
The Department of the History of the English Language has the honour to invite everybody to the Jacek Fisiak Memorial Lecture 2022. Its aim is to celebrate the life and achievement of prof. Jacek Fisiak, the founder of post-war English studies in Poland and an eminent student ot the history of English. This year our speaker will be Professor Simon Horobin, Professor of English Language & Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford. His general research interests focus on the history and development of the English language, and in particular the Medieval period. He has published extensively on literary language and dialectology of the period, as well as researching the language and spelling of Medieval English manuscripts and their scribes. Some of his most recent books are How English Became English: A Short History of a Global Language (2016), Bagels, Bumf, and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language (2019), as well as an edition of Osbern Bokenham's Lives of the Saints (2020) for the Early English Text Society. The lecture will take place on May 13, 2022 at 1.00 p.m. CEST.