Before retirement Judith was a Senior Lecturer at Middlesex University, London where she taught and supervised international students in Applied Linguistics and English for Academic Purposes. Since then she gained a PhD from the University of Birmingham in the English department, researching early Quaker language, pragmatics and discourse using digital corpus-based enquiry. She has published on several aspects of historical Quaker language, and given papers at conferences in Amsterdam, Boston, Cagliari, Dublin, Helsinki, Padua, Paris and across the UK.
Research interests:
- Text-based research into 17th century Quaker print and manuscript material
- Quaker decision-making and minuting practices
- Historical literacy and its measurement
- Digital aspects of Quaker past lives
- Experience of French Quakers in World War 2
Publications:
Quaker Prophetic Language in the Seventeenth Century: A Cross-Disciplinary Case Study. Religions. Vol.9, Issue 8, 227. pp1-24. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel9080227
Some Pragmatic Aspects of Historical Minute-Making: the Distinctiveness of the Quaker Approach. Lingue e Linguaggi 31 (2019), 67-89 I DOI 10.1285/i22390359v31p67. Università del Salento. http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/linguelinguaggi/article/view/21154
Change and Continuity in Quaker Rhetoric after 1660. In Religions 2021, 12(3), 168. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12030168
Quaker Decision-making Meetings Through the Ages: consistency and variation, in The Quaker World, (eds. C. Wess Daniels and Rhiannon Grant), London & New York: Routledge, pp210-217.
Minute Book of the Monthly and Quarterly Meetings of Ratcliff Quakers, 1681–1701 Cambridge: Mutual Academic. https://www.mutualacademic.org/#&gid=1&pid=1
