Adam Ledgeway

Adam Ledgeway
FBA
Born (1970-12-29) 29 December 1970 (age 53)
Academic background
Alma mater
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
Sub-disciplineRomance linguistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge

Adam Noel Ledgeway, FBA (born 29 December 1970) is an academic linguist, specialising in Italian and other Romance languages. Since 2015, he has been Chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages at the University of Cambridge; he has also been Professor of Italian and Romance Linguistics at the University since 2013 and a Fellow of Downing College, Cambridge, since 1996 (having previously been a Research Fellow there for a year). After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Salford, Ledgeway studied for his master's degree at the University of Manchester, which also awarded him his doctorate in 1996. He took up a temporary assistant lectureship at Cambridge in 1997, which was made permanent the following year, before being promoted to lecturer in 2001 and senior lecturer three years later.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ "Ledgeway, Prof. Adam Noel", Who's Who (online edition, Oxford University Press, December 2017). Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  2. ^ "Professor Adam Ledgeway", University of Cambridge. Retrieved 12 April 2018.
  3. ^ "Professor Adam Ledgeway", British Academy. Retrieved 12 April 2018.