MICHAEL HANCHER, President (2009-2011)
ORIN HARGRAVES, Vice-President (2009-2011)
LISA BERGLUND, Executive Secretary (2009-2013)
DONNA FARINA, Board Member (2009-2013)
Donna M.T. Cr. Farina, professor at New Jersey City University, teaches linguistics and pedagogy to Pre-K—12 ESL and bilingual education teacher candidates. She was previously assistant dean (acting) in the College of Arts and Sciences, chairperson of Multicultural Education, and co-director and director of two U.S. Department of Education, Title VI Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Languages (UISFL) program grants at NJCU. She received her Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and a licence and maîtrise in linguistics from the Université des Sciences Humaines in Strasbourg, France. Her research focuses on lexicography—particularly on Russian dictionaries and censorship—as well as on language education and international education. Publications include: “Bilingual Dictionaries of English and Russian in the Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries” (with George Durman) in The Oxford History of English Lexicography (Oxford UP 2009), and “The Dictionary in an Era of Change: Butuzov’s English–Russian Dictionary of English Slang,) (with George Durman, forthcoming in the Polimetrica series). Dr. Farina has been actively involved in the DSNA for twenty-nine years. She has presented at seven conferences, served on the Nominating Committee, the Laurence Urdang/DSNA Award Committee, and the Editorial Advisory Board/ Publications Committee, and the Task Force on Dictionary Use in Education.
ED FINEGAN, Board Member (2007-2011) & American Council of Learned Societies Delegate (2010-15)
STEVE KLEINEDLER, Board Member (2007-2011)
Steve Kleinedler is Supervising Editor at the American Heritage Dictionary, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. On staff for 13 years, Steve has worked as an editor on dozens of titles, including The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, and the related titles in the AHD series (College, High School, Student, Children's, and First). Steve received his Bachelor's Degree from Northwestern University in 1989 in linguistics. He attended the University of Chicago as a graduate student in linguistics, focusing on pragmatics and lexicography, leaving ABD upon employment at Houghton Mifflin in 1997. In addition to his work with the American Heritage Dictionary, Steve is an instructor and director at ImprovBoston and was a founding member of Shattered Globe Theatre in Chicago.
JULIA PLIER, Board Member (2009-2013)
Julia Plier received a BA in French from Carroll College, Waukesha, Wisconsin in 1964. She spent seven years working at Scott Foresman editing the Thorndike Barnhart series of student dictionaries. After leaving fulltime employment, she has continued working freelance on a variety of standard, ESL, and subject-related dictionaries for such publishers as A&C Black, Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Grosset & Dunlap, Macmillan, and Oxford University Press. She is also the pronunciation editor for glossaries in the Wisconsin Historical Society's books for young readers and a member of the Wisconsin Englishes Project, funded by the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures and the Wisconsin Humanities Council.
TERRY PRATT, Past President
Terry Pratt is Professor Emeritus at the University of Prince Edward Island, and the editor of the Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English (1988) and Prince Edward Island Sayings (1998).
KATHERINE M. ISAACS, Editor, DSNA Newsletter
Over the past two decades Katherine M. Isaacs has worked as a lexicographer in Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Vermont, for publishers based in California, Michigan, New York, the United Kingdom, and many points in between. She earned a B.A. (cum laude) in Medieval and Renaissance Studies from Wellesley College, and has so far resisted the allure of graduate school.
ELIZABETH KNOWLES, Editor, Dictionaries: The Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America
Elizabeth Knowles is a historical lexicographer who joined Oxford University Press in 1977 as a library researcher for the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary. She subsequently spent ten years working on the 4th edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. Since 1999 she has been editor of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and her other writing credits include What They Didn’t Say: a Book of Misquotations (2006), and How to Read a Word (2010). She is now a freelance writer and editor with a particular interest in the history of dictionaries, and in quotations.
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