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Professor of Linguistics, West Virginia University

Kirk Hazen is the author of Appalachian Englishes in the Twenty-First Century (WVU Press 2020) and An Introduction to Language (Wiley 2015). He is a Benedum Distinguished Scholar in the Humanities and has won numerous awards for teaching and undergraduate research mentoring.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Linguistics, West Virginia University

Honours

Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award in Humanities; Faculty Award for Distinction in Undergraduate Research Mentoring; American Dialect Society Professorship; Three-time winner of the Sigma Tau Delta Outstanding Teacher Award