Martin Maiden

Professor of the Romance Languages at Oxford, a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford (since 1996), and Director of the Oxford Research Centre for Romance Linguistics (since 2007). He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2003. He studied at Cambridge University (PhD. in Linguistics 1987). From 1982-1989 he taught Italian at Bath University, and from 1989-1996 Romance Philology at Cambridge University. He was Vice-President of the Società Linguistica Italiana (2003-2004). He holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest (2013). In 2014 he was appointed ‘Commander’ in the ‘National Order for “Faithful Service”’ of Romania. He is an editor of, and contributor to, The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages (2011/2013) and The Oxford Guide to the Romance Languages (2016). His particular research interests are in Italian and Romanian linguistics and dialectology, historical linguistics, and morphology. His lectures in Bucharest will be entitled Lecții de morfologie istorică romanică și românească.