Michael Adams
Michael Adams is assistant professor of English at Indiana University, where he teaches plenty of literature, as well as courses in the history and structure of English and lexicography. He has written Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon (OUP, 2003), Slang: The People’s Poetry (OUP, 2009), and, with Anne Curzan, How English Works: A Linguistic Introduction 2/e (Pearson Longman, 2009). He is currently editor of the quarterly journal American Speech. His recent articles include “The Critical Dictionary in the Wiki World,” which appeared in English Today (2007), and a chapter on the “period dictionaries” (Old English, Middle English, and Early Modern English) in the Oxford History of English Lexicography (OUP, 2008); forthcoming articles include “Nicknames, Interpellation, and Dubya’s Theory of the State” and “Power, Politeness, and the Pragmatics of Nicknames,” both to appear in Names: A Journal of Onomastics.