Professor Charlotte Brewer

Professor Charlotte Brewer was Fellow and Tutor in English at Hertford College from 1990-2023. She was educated at the Priory Comprehensive School in Lewes, Sussex, and at the Universities of Oxford and Toronto.

She began her career as a medievalist, subsequently turning to the history of the English language and in particular its record in the Oxford English Dictionary. Her publications include studies of Jane Austen and Shakespeare in the OED, along with Editing Piers Plowman (CUP 1996) and Treasure-House of the Language: the living OED (Yale UP 2007). She is working on the Murray Scriptorium, a co-edited edition of the letters of James Murray, first chief editor of the OED. For more information see her English Faculty page.