Peter Grund

Peter Grund joins Yale as a Senior Lecturer in English and in Divinity. He joins Yale from the University of Kansas, where he was a Professor of English Language Studies and award-winning teacher. He is a specialist in the history, development, and current use of the English language. His main research interest is in the connection between language and sociocultural context in historical periods, and he has published widely in this area, including monographs and co-authored books: The Sociopragmatics of Stance: Community, Language, and the Witness Depositions from the Salem Witch Trials (John Benjamins, 2021); Testifying to Language and Life in Early Modern England. Including a CD containing An Electronic Text Edition of Depositions 1560–1760 (ETED) (John Benjamins, 2011; with Merja Kytö and Terry Walker); “Misticall Wordes and Names Infinite”: An Edition and Study of Humfrey Lock’s Treatise on Alchemy (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2011).