Rate My Professor Elizabeth Hogbin

Dr Elizabeth Hogbin is the Business Development Manager (Food and beverage) in the Research and Enterprise Office of the Research Division at the University of Otago, located at Level 2, East Wing, Centre for Innovation Building, 87 St David Street, Dunedin Campus. In this capacity, she assists in building partnerships with industry and other end-users to support the development of university research, focusing on food and beverage, high tech, food science, and international development. Her academic career is rooted in the Department of English and Linguistics within the Humanities division at the University of Otago. She completed her MA in Linguistics in 2002 with the thesis titled 'Patterns of relativization and animacy in eighteenth and twentieth century written English: an empirical account.' This work examined syntactic patterns related to relativization and the influence of animacy in written English narratives from the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Hogbin then earned her PhD in Linguistics in 2011, with the dissertation 'Syntactic processing and word order variation: Examining Old English word order patterns with respect to Performance Theory,' which analyzed word order variations in Old English through the lens of performance-based syntactic theory.

Elizabeth Hogbin's research specializations encompass syntactic processing, word order variation, relativization strategies, and animacy effects in historical English texts. Key publications include her co-authored article with Jae Jung Song, 'The Accessibility Hierarchy in Relativisation: The Case of Eighteenth- and Twentieth-Century Written English Narrative,' published in the Finnish Journal of Linguistics (2007, volume 20, pages 203-233). This study investigates relativization patterns in English narrative prose across centuries. She also contributed to the edited volume 'New Windows on a Woman’s World: Essays for Jocelyn Harris' (Otago Studies in English 9, Department of English, University of Otago, 2005), where her chapter on patterns of relativisation in eighteenth- and twentieth-century written English narrative appears on pages 182-208. Through her transition from linguistics scholarship to research enterprise, Hogbin applies her expertise to facilitate impactful collaborations between academia and industry at the University of Otago.