Michael Fortescue

Michael Fortescue gained his bachelor's degree as well as his master's degree in Slavic languages and literatures from the University of California, Berkeley, before going on to earn a doctorate in linguistics from the University of Edinburgh. A world traveler, Fortescue taught English in Japan and France before moving to Denmark as a researcher and lecturer in Arctic languages, from where he was able to conduct fieldwork in Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and Siberia. After many years working as a professor of linguistics, Fortescue recently retired and moved to England, his birthplace, with his wife. The author of numerous academic books and articles, he has also written short stories and verse, as well as Ujarak, a novel in Danish, The Domain of Language, a humorous introduction to linguistics, and The Evolution of the Flubb, a lighthearted work filled with wordplay and linguistic humor.