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Rebecca Gregory

Assistant Professor in Historical Linguistics and Onomastics, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

I joined the University of Nottingham in 2019 as part of the Applied English team, developing and running Distance Learning programmes in the School of English. I was previously Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at the University of Glasgow, and a Teaching Affiliate at the University of Nottingham.

I have also worked on research projects based at King's College London, the University of Leicester, and the Institute for Name-Studies here in Nottingham.

I was educated at the University of Nottingham: BA English, 2012; MA Viking & Anglo-Saxon Studies (Institute for Name-Studies Research Studentship), 2013; PhD English (Arts and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Studentship), 2016.

Expertise Summary

English place-names; personal names; historical semantics; history of English.

I am co-editor of the Journal of the English Place-Name Society; Hon. Secretary of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland; and a member of the Committee of the Medieval Settlement Research Group.

Selected Publications

  • GREGORY, R., NORLEDGE, J., STOCKWELL, P. and SZUDARSKI, P., 2022. Digital Teaching for Linguistics Routledge.
  • PAUL CAVILL and REBECCA GREGORY, 2018. A New Dictionary of English Field-Names English Place-Name Society.
  • REBECCA GREGORY, 2017. Viking Nottinghamshire Five Leaves Publications.
  • RICHARD JONES, REBECCA GREGORY, SUSAN KILBY and BENJAMIN PEARS, 2017. Living with a trespasser: riparian names and medieval settlement on the River Trent floodplain Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies. 7, 33-64
  • GREGORY, R., NORLEDGE, J., STOCKWELL, P. and SZUDARSKI, P., 2022. Digital Teaching for Linguistics Routledge.
  • PAUL CAVILL and REBECCA GREGORY, 2018. A New Dictionary of English Field-Names English Place-Name Society.
  • RICHARD JONES, REBECCA GREGORY, SUSAN KILBY and BENJAMIN PEARS, 2017. Living with a trespasser: riparian names and medieval settlement on the River Trent floodplain Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies. 7, 33-64
  • REBECCA GREGORY, 2017. Viking Nottinghamshire Five Leaves Publications.
  • REBECCA GREGORY, 2016. Review of Peter J. Spackman, An A–Z of 1001 Field-Names and their Interpretation Journal of the English Place-Name Society. 48, 125–27
  • REBECCA GREGORY, 2015. Some Nottinghamshire dead men Nomina. 38,

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