{"id":11,"date":"2020-08-14T15:30:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T22:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/laurelbrinton\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2025-03-30T21:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T04:07:21","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/laurelbrinton\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I received my B.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Davis (1975) and my Ph.D. in English with a Linguistics Emphasis from the University of California, Berkeley (1981). My doctoral dissertation, directed by Julian Boyd, was entitled &#8220;The Historical Development of Aspectual Periphrases in English.&#8221; Since completing my doctorate, I have been a member of the Department of English Language and Literatures of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, attaining the rank of Professor in 1995. I have held numerous UBC Humanities and Social Sciences small grants as well as Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC) Standard Research Grants (1998-2000, 2007-10, 2011-2012) and a SSHRCC Leave Fellowship (1985-86). In 1999 I was awarded an Izaak Walton Killam Research Prize and in 2006 I received an Izaak Walton Killam Faculty Research Fellowship.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I have organized sessions at the Modern Language Association and Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, I organized the 14th ICHL (International Conference of Historical Linguistics) held in Vancouver in August 1999, and I have organized the History of English sections for IAUPE (International Association of University Professors of English) held in August 2004 in Vancouver and in July 2012 in Beijing. I organized the academic program of SHEL-6 (Society for the History of English) held in conjunction with GLAC-15 (Society for Germanic Linguistics) in Banff in 2009 and helped organize a joint meeting of SHEL-9 and DSNA -20 (Dictionary Society of North America) held in Vancouver in June 2015.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">From 1997-1999, I served as Associate Head for Graduate Studies. For many years, I was chair of the English Language Program.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">On June 30, 2023, I retired after 42 years at UBC.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laurel_J._Brinton\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Wikipedia page<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/00754242241291663\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with me (conducted by Merja Kyt\u00f6) which appeared in the <em>Journal of English Linguistics<\/em> 52.4 (2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received my B.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Davis (1975) and my Ph.D. in English with a Linguistics Emphasis from the University of California, Berkeley (1981). My doctoral dissertation, directed by Julian Boyd, was entitled &#8220;The Historical Development of Aspectual Periphrases in English.&#8221; Since completing my doctorate, I have been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2643,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/laurelbrinton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/laurelbrinton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/laurelbrinton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/laurelbrinton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/laurelbrinton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/laurelbrinton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":384,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/laurelbrinton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/laurelbrinton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}