Advisory Board

The HeidelGram project is supported by the following board of advisors:

Prof. Dr. Marc Alexander (University of Glasgow) is an expert on cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, and computational linguistics. His work as director, editor, and researcher of the Historical Thesaurus of English and his substantial contributions to the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (Kay et al. 2009) make him a pioneer in the field of a diachronic, corpus-based approach to lexical, semantic, and stylistic change.

Prof. Dr. Lieselotte Anderwald (Univerity of Kiel) is a professor of English linguistics at Kiel University. She specializes in corpus-based variation studies, comparative dialect grammar, and grammar writing in the 19th century.

Prof. Michaela Mahlberg (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen) is a Professor of Digital Humanities and Alexander-von-Humboldt Professor at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and also a honorary professor at the University of Birmingham. She has been leading the development of the web application CLiC (Corpus Linguistics in Context), which is now used in over 100 countries globally.

Prof. Dr. Tony McEnery (Lancaster University), the founding Director of the ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science and Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University, is an internationally renowned corpus linguist who has done extensive corpus-based research in many areas across theoretical, applied, historical and contemporary (corpus) linguistics, including also the compilation of corpora in several languages, particularly in connection with the EEBO Text Creation Partnership.

Prof. Dr. Dan McIntyre (Uppsala University) is an expert in stylistics, corpus linguistics and the history of the English language. He holds a docentship in English Language from the University of Eastern Finland and a docentship in English from Uppsala University. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AdvanceHE, UK) and was elected a Fellow of the English Association in 2025.

Prof. Dr. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (Leiden University) is a Professor emeritus of English Sociohistorical Linguistics at the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. She is a proven expert on grammars, grammarians, grammar writing and usage guides. Her major NWO project Bridging the Unbridgeable has closed the gap between the three main players in the field of prescriptivism: linguists, prescriptivists (as writers of usage guides) and those who depend upon such manuals, the general user.