Jan Fellerer

Jan Fellerer is a Professor of Slavonic Languages and Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Oxford. He holds an M.A. from the University of Vienna and a Dr. phil. from the University of Basel. His primary affiliation is with the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, where he teaches courses on Polish language, historical Slavonic philology, and language contact in East-Central Europe.

Research Interests: Fellerer specializes in the history of Polish, Czech, and Ukrainian languages from the late 18th century to the present. His work focuses on language contact, urban dialects (particularly in Lviv and Łódź), historical multilingualism, and syntactic phenomena like argument structure and word order. He bridges linguistics with cultural history, examining how language reflects socio-political dynamics in regions like the Habsburg Empire.

Teaching: He instructs advanced courses on Slavonic philology, comparative linguistic analysis, and the interplay between language and history in 19th-century East-Central Europe. His teaching integrates historical linguistics with practical language study.

Publications: Fellerer has authored over 20 books and articles, including monographs on Lviv's multilingual urban dialect and edited volumes on East-Central European identities. Recent work emphasizes the Habsburg Monarchy’s linguistic policies and the evolution of Ukrainian standardization.

Affiliations: He is affiliated with Wolfson College and contributes to research groups at the Clarendon Institute. His work intersects with the Language & Brain Lab and Romance Linguistics programs within the University’s broader linguistic network.