Stephen Parkinson, is former Associate Professor in Portuguese Language and Linguistics, and Emeritus Fellow of Linacre College in Oxford. Friend have dedicated a special issue of Portuguese Studies to him on his retirement
Stephen Parkinson retired in 2015, but retains a research interest in the broad field of linguistic studies in European and Brazilian Portuguese, in particular phonetics and phonology, and in medieval Portuguese literature. His post-retirement research project is the edition of the 13th-century collection of songs in praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Cantigas de Santa Maria. A preliminary anthology was published in 2015; he holds a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellowship to enable him to complete the edition. He has received grants from the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust and the Modern Humanities Research Association for the creation of the Centre for the Study of the Cantigas de Santa Maria, which has developed a web database on the sources and manuscript collections of the Cantigas. He was General Editor of The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies from 1988 to 2015. He was one of the editors of the groundbreaking Companion to Portuguese Literature and Reading Literature in Portuguese. He is also involved in a research project (with Professor Aditi Lahiri) to trace the entry of Portuguese loanwords into Bengali.
