Born Christine Lallouette in Paris, Lagarde lost her father, a professor of English, when she was 17.
His parents had been liberal middle-class, his father a professor of English and his mother a suffragette.
"Studying language is a gradual thing, " advises Chen Shu, a professor of English at the Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Wanna, a professor of English literature and Thai studies at Bangkok's Kasetsart University.
Mr. Nelson is a professor of English at the University of Illinois and president of the American Association of University Professors.
Mr Menand, a frequent magazine writer as well as a professor of English, zestfully adopts the contemporary biographical practice of not treating thinkers as disembodied intelligences.
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Finally, take the scenic route along the back of Merton College, where Tolkien was a professor of English language and literature between 1945 and 1959 after leaving Pembroke.
For this he has been taken to task by Terry Eagleton, a professor of English at Oxford University and a leading exponent of politically committed criticism.
The Scots, fumes Charles Jones, a professor of English language at Edinburgh University, have been speaking English for just as long as those south of the border.
"Concepts embedded in linguistic behavior, " involving emotions and latent intentions, "allow you to predict" a range of outcomes, says David Kaufer, a professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University who helped develop DocuScope.
The broad outline of this story has been known since 1983, when Richard Alan Schwartz, a professor of English at Florida International University in Miami, obtained a censored version of Einstein's 1, 427-page FBI file.
Pericles Lewis, a professor of English and comparative literature at Yale, was tapped Wednesday to head Yale-NUS as president, while a professor from the National University of Singapore, Lai Choy Heng, was named vice president.
Mr. Lewis, a professor of English and comparative literature at Yale until he was named president of the new college in May, said the new venture has received assurances from the Singapore government regarding academic freedom.
At Kennesaw State University in Georgia, the Intensive English Program doesn't teach a slang expression until it is in use for more than one generation, says David Johnson, a professor of English and director of the program.
For in addition to his higher-profile roles as a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and as a controversial commentator on Middle Eastern and international politics, Said was music critic at America's foremost left-leaning political weekly, the Nation, from 1986 until his death in 2003.
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The son of a Chicago English professor, West made his mark by dressing preppy and wrapping about black middle-class angst.
This is a guest post by Deborah Mutnick, Professor of English at Long Island University in Brooklyn, New York.
The group includes a political scientist, the head of an African-American studies department, an English professor and a former city attorney.
Also attending is our colleague, David English, a University of Missouri Law School professor, and the gold standard of meeting frugality.
"Nowadays, peppering our speech with nonstandard English is being a regular Joe, " says Jason Riggle, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.
"He's been a real-life superhero to many people, " said Marc Lamont Hill, an associate professor of English education at Columbia University.
English Heritage said results of recent analysis of Peter's portrait by a professor of genetics, now suggested he had Pitt-Hopkins syndrome, a chromosomal disorder first identified in 1978.
"I think he's doing a lot of positive, progressive, constructive work right now, " said Brown University English professor William Keach, the first member of the university's faculty to sign the statement of support.
For fans of the films, Bond is a wholly different experience than he is for fans of Ian Fleming's novels, notes English professor and cultural critic Louis Menand.
"It's terrible business ethics to be lying and then just get people to sign a contract, especially if English isn't their first language, " says Richard Painter, professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota.
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