I am Professor in English Linguistics at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) and the principal investigator of the SNSF-funded project The Language of the Labouring Poor in Late Modern England. My research interests include language variation and change, (socio-)historical linguistics, dialectology, corpus linguistics, historical stylistics, the interface between manuscript and print, and language standardisation, all of which are combined in this project. To find out more about my teaching and research/publications click on this link.