Nora C. England
Dallas TACA Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin
Director, Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America (CILLA)
Nora England’s research interests are in Mayan linguistics, including both the grammar of Mayan languages and contemporary language politics. She has 35 years of experience, principally in Guatemala, and also in Chiapas, Mexico. She is the founder and adviser to Oxlajuuj Keej Maya’ Ajtz’iib’ (OKMA), a Guatemalan Maya NGO dedicated to research on Mayan languages. She taught anthropology and linguistics for 24 years at the University of Iowa before joining the linguistics faculty of the University of Texas in 2001. At Texas she is also the founding director of the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America. She has additionally taught linguistics at the Universdad Rafael Landívar and the Universidad Mariano Gálvez, Guatemala, and has supervised the licenciatura theses of twelve students at these universities. She has been an international consultant to the Dirección General de Educación Bilingüe Intercultural, Guatemala. Her publications include six books and numerous articles on Mayan linguistics and language politics, in both English and Spanish; she has also supervised the preparation of over twenty-five books in linguistics by members of OKMA. She was a MacArthur Fellow from 1993-1998
