Wendy Ayres-Bennett#
| Membership Number: | 7382 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/wmb1001 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-2146-3165 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendy-ayres-bennett-04295233/ |
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Present and Previous Positions
- 2023 Associate Fellow, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies
- 2022 Emerita Professor of French Philology and Linguistics, University of Cambridge
- 2005 - 2022 Professor of French Philology and Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge
- 1998 - 2005 Reader in French Philology and Linguistics, Department of French, University of Cambridge
- 1988 - 1998 University Lecturer, Department of French, University of Cambridge
- 1983 - 1988 University Assistant Lecturer, Department of French, University of Cambridge
- 1982 - 1983 Julia Mann Junior Research Fellow, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Women and language
- Multilingualism
- Historical sociolinguistics
- History of the French language
- Linguistic ideology
- Language standardization and codification
- Variation and change
- History of linguistic thought
- Language policy
Honours and Awards
- 1997 French Academy’s Prix d’Académie awarded for Les Remarques de l’Académie Française sur le Quinte-Curce de Vaugelas 1719 - 1720, co-authored with Philippe Caron, Paris: Presses de l’Ecole normale supérieure (1996)
- 2004 Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques
- 2013 French Academy’s Prix Georges Dumézil for Remarques et observations sur la langue française: histoire et évolution d’un genre, co-authored with Magali Seijido, Paris: Éditions Classiques Garnier (2011)
