Matthew Lauzon
Assistant Professor
Sakamaki Hall B405
(808) 956-8541
mlauzon(at)hawaii.edu
[BA Carleton, 1994; MA, PhD Johns Hopkins, 1998, 2002]
Early Modern Europe; European Intellectual History
Representative Publications:
The Great Chain of Communicating Beings: Languages and Identities in France and Great Britain, 1660-1789 (manuscript in preparation).
“‘A Language More Peculiarly Circumstanced Than Any That Has Yet Appeared’: English as a ‘Perfect’ Language in 18th Century Linguistic Thought,” in History of Linguistics, vol. 2 From Classical to Contemporary Linguistics, ed. David Cram, Andrew Linn, & Elke Nowak (Philadelphia, 1999).
“Savage Eloquence in America and the Construction of a Linguistic Identity in 18th Century Britain,” Historiographia Linguistica (1996).