Editorial Team

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  Stephanie Jat, Editor-in-Chief

  University of Cambridge

  Steph is a third-year Linguistics student at Pembroke College, Cambridge, originally from Hong Kong. After spending too many hours doing UKLO puzzles, she decided to try her hand at the degree and decided she loved it. Her main interests lie in stylistics and its interaction with linguistic theory, specifically in the interface between poetic license and grammaticality. When not reading, she can be found trying not to burn down the kitchen, lost on a hike, or living her X-factor dreams from the safety of her living room.
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  Xinmei Sun, Editorial Designer

  University of Nottingham

  Xinmei is a fourth-year undergraduate at the University of Nottingham. Her research interest lies in cognitive linguistics and its applications in critical stylistics. She is also interested in experimental methods in reader response research in critical stylistics. She enjoys musical theatre, crime fiction and hiking. Her role on the editorial team mainly involves formatting and styling each issue of U-Lingua.
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  Alessandra Terranova, Section Editor

  University of Edinburgh

  Alessandra is a second-year Cognitive Science undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh. Currently her areas of interest are semantic typology, computational linguistics and phonology, but she changes her mind too easily. She edits Behind the Bookshelves, the section connecting students to the wider world of academia.
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  Kitty Liu, Section Editor

  University of Cambridge

  Kitty is a first-year undergraduate studying Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. She particularly interested in semantics and pragmatics, historical linguistics, and functionalism. She edits the Through the Ages section in U-Lingua, which centres on historical linguistics and language typology.
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  Elif Yildiz, Section Editor

  University of Edinburgh

  Elif (she/her) is a third year linguistics undergraduate student at the University of Edinburgh. Her areas of interest are typology, syntactic theory and cross-linguistic variation. She is the editor of the Hot off the Press section, which brings current affairs and linguistics together. When not reading the news, she can be found trying to increase her non(yet!)existent spicy food tolerance.
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  Caitlin Wilson, Columnist

  University of Edinburgh

  Caitlin (she/her) is a fourth year undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh. Her areas of interest are theoretical syntax and language preservation. She runs the outreach column Curiouser and Curiouser that aims to answer students’ burning questions about what it’s like to study Linguistics.
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  Cara McSherry, Columnist

  University of Edinburgh

  Cara (she/her) has just finished her undergrad in Spanish & Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh. She’s mainly interested in language-in-context, especially in the ways that people think and feel about their languages and how that shapes different power dynamics; she also feels passionately about elevating the status of minority languages, particularly Scots. Young dumb and full of linguistics puns, she’s the columnist for A Hands-On Approach where she’ll be offering up advice and how-to guides on various linguistics-related topics as well as some fun and challenging puzzles.
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  Olivia Szczerbakiewicz, Columnist

  University of Edinburgh

  Olivia is the Columnist of the Words, Words, Words section of U-Lingua. She is a fourth-year English Language and Literature student at the University of Edinburgh. She is particulatly keen on applications of cognitive linguistics and stylistics to literary texts, as well as the intricacies and differences in translation. In her free time, she can be found conducting odd research for and typing away at her novel about late Soviet era Poland.
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  Tom Williamson, Columnist

  University of Cambridge

  Tom is an MPhil (by Thesis) in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, where his research crosses a divide between psycholinguistics and cognitive science, mixed in with some semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy of language. He completed a BA in Linguistics and Philosophy at Lancaster University, where he studied a range of topics from the philosophy of mind and cognitive linguistics to evolutionary psychology and logic. In Anatomy of a Linguist, he'll be sharing his thoughts and opinions on some of the most pressing issues in linguistics today, ensuring that the content remains understandable and engaging.