Lynne Murphy

Lynne Murphy is professor of linguistics at the University of Sussex and recipient of the NEH Public Scholars Program grant. Born and raised in New York State, she studied linguistics at the universities of Massachusetts and Illinois, before starting her academic career in South Africa and Texas. Since 2000, she has lived in Brighton, England, where she has acquired an English husband, an English daughter, and an alter ego: Lynneguist, author of the award-winning blog Separated by a Common Language.