Bo Ralph - Curriculum Vitae#

Studies and degrees:

• Bachelor of Arts, 1969, University of Gothenburg
  
• PhD in Scandinavian Languages, 1975, University of Gothenburg

Subjects studied:

North-Germanic languages, History of Literature with Poetics, General Linguistics, Social Anthropology, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics with Sanskrit, Czech Language.

Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, American Indian Languages, and African Languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1972.

Evaluations:

• Supervisor for Ph.D. candidates, 1982–.
  
• Expert opinion reports in connection with the appointment of professors etc. in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, Estonia, and Germany.
  
• Faculty opponent at Ph.D. defenses in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland.
  
• Member of the evaluation committee for Ph.D. theses in Sweden and Finland.
  
• Adviser to the (Swedish) Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1984–99.
  
• Expert for The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 1998.

Project leadership (selected list):

• ’Swedish defining vocabulary’, financed by the (Swedish) Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1975–78
• ’National Edition of August Strindberg's Collected Works’, financed by the Swedish Cultural Council and the Swedish Research Council, 1982–2010 (joint leadership)
• ’Lexicographic tradition in Sweden’, financed by the Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1987–94
• ’The Bible Commission (translation of the Bible into Swedish)’, financed by the Swedish Parliament, 1987–2000 (joint leadership)
• ’The Swedish inflectional system — between chaos and balance’, financed by the Swedish Research Council, 2000–04
• ’Network for computational processing of Nordic mediaeval manuscripts’, financed by the Nordic Research Academy, 1994–99
• ’The relation between vernacular and Latin authorship in the Renaissance’, financed by the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 1996–2000
• ’Travelling Swedes in the 18th century’, financed by the Torsten and Ragnar Söderberg Foundations, 2003-05
• ’Icelandic–Swedish dictionary’, financed by the Governments of Sweden (Foreign Ministry) and the Iceland (Ministry of Culture), 2005- (joint leadership)
• ’Swedish language history in a Nordic perspective’, financed by the Swedish Academy, 1996–2011