Colette Moore (she/her)

Associate Professor
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Contact Information

PDL B-421
Office Hours
TTh 3:30-4:30, or by appointment

Biography

B.A., The University of Texas at Austin, 1996
M.A., The University of Michigan, 2000
Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 2004

Areas of Specialization

English language studies, history of the English language, late medieval literature

Activities and Interests

I am interested, most broadly, in the ways that speakers and writers have used and shaped the English language to meet their changing needs. My research is based in the history of the English language, and uses methodology from historical pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and stylistics. My 2011 book, Quoting Speech in Early English, joins linguistic and literary studies to investigate methods of marking reported speech in late medieval English. I am currently researching the intersection of linguistic and scribal strategies for textual organization in late Middle English devotional texts. Other research and teaching interests include language ideologies, language and community, corpus linguistics, language and gender, the changing linguistic landscape in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and Middle English language and literature.

Selected Research

Winter 2026

Autumn 2025

Winter 2025

Spring 2024

Winter 2024

Autumn 2023

Spring 2023

Winter 2023

Autumn 2022

Spring 2022

Winter 2022

Autumn 2021

Spring 2021

Winter 2021

Additional Courses

Winter 2019

Honors 211D: Invented Languages: From Elvish to Dothraki

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