BA (Manchester) MA PhD (London); FHEA, FEA

Professor of English Language

Contact Details:

• Email: jmc21@le.ac.uk
• Tel: +44 (0)116 252 2635

Research Interests

Professor Coleman's research interests lie in the history of the English language, particularly the history of the lexis and the slang and cant dictionary tradition.

Professor Coleman's four monographs on the cant and slang dictionary tradition cover the sixteenth to the twentieth century and her The Life of Slang will be published in 2012.

Projects

• Slang Dictionary Project 

Current Postgraduate Supervision

Professor Coleman would welcome postgraduate students (MA or PhD) with interests in any of the following areas of research:

• English historical linguistics
• History of the English lexis
• History of the English dictionary
• Slang and cant
• Slang and cant literature
• Lexical semantics
• Lexicology
• Lexicography

Teaching and Administration

Professor Coleman teaches on a range of language and medieval modules. For further details of these modules, see the course descriptions at:

• EN1040: History of the English Language (convenor)
• EN2030: Old English
• EN3079: Words and the World
• EN3127: Slang and the www

MA Options:

• EN7113: Words & Word Meaning
• EN7219: Managing Knowledge: Dictionaries and Ideology

Recent Publications

Full list of publications

Internet Links

• The International Society for Historical Lexicography and Lexicology
• Online Slang Glossaries (produced for the 'Slang and the www' module)