Professor Clive Holes FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2002
- Subjects
- Linguistics
Summary
After attending local schools in the West Midlands, Clive Holes went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge in 1966 to read Modern Languages, switching to Oriental Studies (Arabic and Turkish) at the end of his first year and taking a first class BA degree in 1969. From 1969 to 1971 he worked as a UNA Volunteer in Bahrain government schools, joining the British Council staff on his return to the UK in 1971. From then until 1983, he served in overseas postings to Kuwait, Algeria, Iraq and Thailand, and completed a PhD in Linguistics at Cambridge in 1981. He was appointed to Lectureship in Arabic and Applied Linguistics at Salford University in 1983, and was then appointed Director of the Language Centre, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman, 1985-7, returning to the UK to take up a Lectureship, then a Readership, in Arabic and a Fellowship at Trinity Hall, 1987-96. He was appointed Khalid bin Abdallah Al-Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World and a Fellow of Magdalen College in 1997, retiring in 2014. He is now an Emeritus Professorial Fellow of Magdalen College, and the current President of the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL).His research interests range widely over the Arabic language and its history, Arabic dialectology, linguistics and popular literature, especially oral poetry.
Current post
Emeritus Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, University of Oxford
Past appointments
University of Oxford Emeritus Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World
2014 -
University of Oxford Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World
1997 -
University of Oxford Khalid bin 'Abdullah Al-Sa'ud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World
1997 - 2014
University of Cambridge Lecturer, Reader in Arabic
1987 - 1996
University of Salford Lecturer in Arabic and Applied Linguistics
1983 - 1985
University of Salford University of Salford
1983 - 1985
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Paul Kerswill FBA
Sociolinguistics; English, Norwegian; language and migration; new dialects; multicultural youth language; language and social structure; sociolinguistics of West Africa; language, media and public dissemination
Professor Richard Widdess FBA
Musicology of South Asia, including history, theory, analysis and social context of music in North India and Nepal; music and religion in South Asia; analysis of world music; music cognition, performance and meaning in oral traditions
