Webinar: LGBTIAQ+ Lexicography in the Oxford English Dictionary by OUP Academic Marketing

LGBTIAQ+ Lexicography in the Oxford English Dictionary

About

Join OED editors and guest speakers for a virtual discussion where they will delve into the world of queer vocabulary and its representation in dictionaries.

This event will explore the evolution, documentation, the impact of queer language on mainstream vernacular:

• Queer words in the OED and how they were researched
• The documentation of these words in dictionaries throughout history
• Sources of evidence then and now
• How words from secret languages get adopted more widely
• Queer vocabulary in World Englishes

There will also be a Q&A time – bring your questions to the panellists or send them in advance to oed.uk@oup.com

Please note that this event will be recorded, and all registrants will be notified once the recording is available for viewing.

When

Thursday, June 26, 2025 · 5:00 p.m. London (UTC +1:00)

Presenters

Dr Danica Salazar (panel chair)

World English Executive Editor, Oxford University Press

Dr Danica Salazar is World English Executive Editor for Oxford Languages, where she leads editorial projects for world varieties of English, as well as researches and writes World English entries for the Oxford English Dictionary. She publishes and lectures regularly on lexicography, phraseology, World Englishes and Spanish- and English-language teaching. Dr Salazar is the author of Lexical Bundles in Native and Non-native Scientific Writing (2014), co-editor of Biomedical English: A Corpus-based Approach (2013), and co-author of several language textbooks for learners of Spanish.

Anansa Benbow

Lexicographer, Oxford Dictionary of African American English, Oxford University Press

Anansa Benbow is a Lexicographer for the Oxford Dictionary of African American English. She completed her B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Rochester and her M.A. in Applied Linguistics at Teachers College, Columbia University. For her M.A. project, Anansa discussed "aight so boom" as a pragmatic marker in African American English. Previously, Anansa has worked with multilingual youth in Providence, RI and New York, NY. This motivated her to give a TEDx Talk entitled, Grammar Skool, which discussed language discrimination towards Black children in the K-12 space. Most recently, Anansa was a dialect coach for a theater in Chicago, IL working on their production of Sister Act. Anansa is the host of The Black Language Podcast, which seeks to honor Black people of the past, present, and future - a goal she hopes to continue with the ODAAE.

Dr Stephen Turton

Departmental Lecturer in English Language, University of Oxford

Dr Turton works on the history of the English language and its intersections with society and literary culture from 1500 to the present. His particular interests include 18th-century and Romantic British literature, lexicography, sexuality, gender, slang, and print censorship. His first book, Before the Word Was Queer: Sexuality and the English Dictionary, 1600–1930, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2024. He is currently co-editing a pilot digital edition of the letters of Sir James Murray, first chief editor of the OED, which can be found at MurrayScriptorium.org.

Dr Lindsay Rose Russell

Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Lindsay Rose Russell is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Center for Writing Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A historian of the dictionary genre, Russell has published on the gendered and ideological labor of dictionary making; popular reactions and resistance to dictionaries; and the lexicons of women, missionaries, feminists, artists, and other overlooked lexicographers. Russell serves as Executive Director of the Dictionary Society of North America and Associate Editor of The International Journal of Lexicography.

Jonathan Dent

OED Senior Editor, Oxford University Press

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