Professor Simon C. P. Horobin
Tutorial Fellow
Subject Area: English
Email:
remove.me.simon.horobin@magd.ox.ac.uk
Tel: +44-(0)1865-276000
Academic Background
Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature and Tutorial Fellow in English.Undergraduate Teaching
Professor Horobin teaches undergraduate papers on the English Language and Medieval Literature.Research Interests
Professor Horobin's research is focused on the history and development of the English Language, with particular interests in literary language and dialectology. He is also engaged in the study of Medieval manuscripts and is co-director of an AHRC Project (with Linne Mooney, University of York) to identify the scribes who copied literary manuscripts of the fifteenth century.Selected Publications
Studying the History of Early English. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Chaucer’s Language. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
The Language of the Chaucer Tradition. Chaucer Studies 32. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2003.
An Introduction to Middle English (with J.J. Smith) Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002; Oxford University Press USA/Canada.
New Perspectives on English Historical Linguistics. Volume 1: Syntax and Morphology, eds. C. Kay, S. Horobin and J. Smith. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 251. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2004.