We are pleased to announce that, this spring, Dr. Rachel Fletcher will begin a two-year term as a postdoctoral fellow at the Dictionary of Old English. This fellowship is funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), which we received in late 2019 but have been prevented from using until now because of the pandemic.
Rachel is a recent graduate of the University of Glasgow, where she wrote a dissertation on the history of Old English lexicography under the supervision of Prof. Kathryn Lowe. For an article on OED slips in the DOE collections annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien, written by Rachel after a visit to our project during her graduate studies, click here.
During her time in Toronto, Rachel will both help draft DOE entries and work on a research project exploring connections between Old English dictionaries and contemporary dialectology.