William Kretzschmar
Harry and Jane Willson Professor in Humanities
Email:
kretzsch@uga.edu
Tel:
706-542-2246
Office:
317 Park Hall
Vita:
http://www.text-tech.com/WAK/vita-kretzschmar-09.rtf
Office hours:
Tues and Thurs 10-11AM, and by appt.
Professor Kretzschmar (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1980) began his career as a medievalist (dissertation on Middle Scots poetry, medieval literary theory), and has over time become more associated with English Language Studies. He is the editor of the Linguistic Atlas Project, a national center for survey research on American English. He was President of the American Dialect Society from 2007-2009. He edited the Journal of English Linguistics for fifteen years, and now serves on a number of editorial boards. He is coeditor of the Oxford Dictionary of Pronunciation for Current English (2001), and provides American pronunciations for the online Oxford English Dictionary and for various dictionaries in the Oxford US Dictionaries program. He has published numerous articles on medieval literature, American English, language variation, and humanities computing. His Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States was published by the University of Chicago Press in 1993, and his Introduction to Quantitative Analysis of Linguistic Survey Data by Sage in 1996. A collection of essays from his UGA seminar on literary stylistics was published as a special issue of Language and Literature (2001). His The Linguistics of Speech, which demonstrates the relationship between language behavior and complexity science, was published by Cambridge University Press (2009). He directed the UGA Linguistics Program (1996-99), and developed and served as the director of the UGA Computer/Information Literacy Program from 1999-2001. Currently he is pursuing his research and teaching on American English, language variation, and computer methods for description, analysis, and presentation of language data from literary and non-literary sources. His current grant-funded research includes a major NEH grant to preserve thousands of hours of audio-taped spoken interviews by conversion to computer storage, and local funding for community language research in Roswell, GA.