Rebecca Posner
Rebecca Posner was a British philologist, linguist and academic, who specialized in Romance languages.Biography
Posner took her D.Phil. from Somerville College, Oxford in 1958. She then was a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge, Professor of French Studies at the University of Ghana, and a Reader in Language at the University of York.
From 1978 to 1996, Posner was Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford. Following her retirement she became professor emeritus of Oxford and an honorary fellow of St Hugh's College.
She served as President of the Philological Society from 1996 to 2000. She was the recipient of a festschrift volume edited by two of her former colleagues, John Green and Wendy Ayres-Bennett: Variation and Change in French: essays presented to Rebecca Posner on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday.In 1953, Rebecca, then Reynolds, married economist Michael Posner. Together they had two children: a son, Christopher, and a daughter, Barbara.Selected works
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