Anne Curzan
Linguist and English professor
Anne Curzan is a linguist and professor of English at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Says Who?
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About Anne Curzan
Anne Curzan is an American scholar of English language and literature and a professor at the University of Michigan. She holds the Geneva Smitherman Collegiate Professorship and is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor. She was a dean at the university from September 2019 to June 2024. Curzan has written about language for the blog Lingua Franca and for the Michigan Today column "Talking About Words". She has also shared linguistic trivia on the radio segment "That's What They Say" on Michigan Radio. She sits on the American Heritage Dictionary Usage Panel, which weighs in on how acceptable various usages are.