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Professor Charlotte Brewer started her research career as a medievalist, with publications on the late Middle English poem Piers Plowman and its textual and editing history, e.g. Piers Plowman: the Z Version (ed. with A. G. Rigg, Toronto, 1983) and Piers Plowman: the Evolution of the Poem (Cambridge University Press, 1996; reprinted 2006). She retains Middle English research interests but for the moment she is working on the history and character of the Oxford English Dictionary. Much of this research can be seen on her website Examining the OED.
Her current projects explore OED’s coverage of individual authors and periods, its consequent influence on literary and linguistic history, and its treatment of areas of language relating to culture and society (e.g. politics, sex & gender, usage and correctness).
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
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| 3 | Women in the Oxford English Dictionary | A fascinating insight into the role of women in the Oxford English Dictionary | Charlotte Brewer | 02 Mar 2021 | |
| 2 | English Grammar Day 2016 | English Grammar Day, with talks by Prof Deborah Cameron, Prof Simon Horobin, Prof Charlotte Brewer and others | Deborah Cameron, Simon Horobin, Charlotte Brewer | 10 Nov 2016 | |
| 1 | Creative Commons | Shakespeare and the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) | Professor Charlotte Brewer introduces the methodology behind the creation of the OED and how current activity to update the Dictionary may reveal new evidence about Shakespeare's impact on the English Language. | Charlotte Brewer | 08 Nov 2011 |