Brief bio
After completing a PhD in Linguistics at Cambridge University, I joined the faculty at the University of Illinois, where I worked for 11 years first as assistant and then as associate professor of Linguistics. I was also affiliated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. In January 2017, I was appointed professor and chair of sociolinguistics at the University of Leiden (Center for Linguistics), where I am also head of discipline Culture at the BA International Studies in the Hague. I gave my inaugural lecture on 20 April 2018 on the topic of "Language and belonging". I have held post-doctoral positions at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab and at the British School at Athens in Greece and taught at the Universities of Athens and Cyprus.I have served as Co-Editor in Chief for the Journal of Pragmatics (2017-2021) and a member of the editorial boards of Pragmatics & Cognition, the International Review of Pragmatics, the Journal of Politeness Research, the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, and Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, among others.
Email: m.terkourafi@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Office: Reuvensplaats 0.36, 2311 BE Leiden
Mailing Address: Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Postbus 9515, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
