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Hugo Bowles is an Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham's Vice-Chancellor's Office. Over 30 years, he has taught English linguistics at four Italian universities and conducted pioneering research in applied linguistics, focusing on legal/medical English, English as a lingua franca, and literary stylistics. His work bridges linguistics and literature, particularly in analyzing Charles Dickens's manuscripts through stenographic techniques.
Education:
- MA in Classics, University of Cambridge
- PGCE in English, University of Oxford
- MPhil in English and Applied Linguistics, University of Cambridge
- PhD in English, University of Cambridge
Research Interests: His current projects include the Dickens Code initiative (winner of the 2022 Times Higher Education Award), which deciphers Dickens's shorthand manuscripts, and editing a new Oxford edition of Pickwick Papers. His work explores the intersection of orality, textual analysis, and Dickens's creative process.
Awards:
- 2022 Times Higher Education Award for best research project in Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
- ESSE Book Prize for Storytelling and Drama (2010)
Teaching & Grants: Specializes in discourse analysis and stylistics. His research has been supported by crowdsourced collaboration and institutional grants for the Dickens Code project.
Labs/Teams: Co-founder of the Dickens Code project, collaborating with international scholars and crowdsourced researchers to analyze Dickens's handwritten manuscripts.
