{"id":4901,"date":"2015-09-11T09:40:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T08:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=4901"},"modified":"2015-09-11T09:40:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T08:40:54","slug":"in-memoriam-professor-david-trotter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/09\/11\/in-memoriam-professor-david-trotter\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: Professor David  Trotter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Colleagues in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/index.html\">Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/index.html\">Modern Languages <\/a>will be saddened to learn of the death of Professor David Andrew Trotter, who died on Monday 24 August, aged 58. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Professor Trotter\u2019s research spanned historical French linguistics, medieval French, and historical dialectology, especially eastern French. He was probably best known, however, as one of the country\u2019s leading Anglo-Norman specialists, leading the AHRC-funded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aber.ac.uk\/en\/research\/excellence\/research-centres-and-groups\/anglo-norman-dictionary-project\/\">Anglo-Norman Dictionary project <\/a>with great distinction. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Professor Trotter graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy from Queen\u2019s College Oxford, and worked as Laming Junior Fellow at The Queen\u2019s College, Oxford, before moving to the University of Exeter in 1985, where he taught the linguistics of modern French, whilst being responsible for all medieval work in the Department of Modern Languages. He was appointed Chair of French at Aberystwyth University in October 1993, and was Head of Department throughout his career at Aberystwyth, serving also as Dean of the Faculty of Arts between 1996 and 2000. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Georgia','serif'\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Acting Head of English Language\u00a0&amp; Linguistics\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/ell\/staff\/hornsby.html\">David Hornsby<\/a> noted: \u201cDavid was a great friend to French and ELL at Kent, providing helpful advice to colleagues and students alike. The typically original, entertaining and insightful paper he gave on Anglo-Norman in Kent here in 2011 was particularly well received. His death is a huge loss to French linguistics in the UK, and he will be greatly missed.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleagues in the Department of English Language &amp; Linguistics\u00a0and Modern Languages will be saddened to learn of the death of Professor David Andrew Trotter, who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2015\/09\/11\/in-memoriam-professor-david-trotter\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135857],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4901"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4903,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4901\/revisions\/4903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}