Deborah Cameron

Who is Deborah Cameron?

Deborah Cameron is a Scottish feminist linguist, who currently holds the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, University of Oxford. She is mainly interested in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology. A large part of her academic research is focused on the relationship of language to gender and sexuality. Cameron wrote the book The Myth Of Mars And Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?, published in 2007.

Before coming to Oxford, Cameron taught at the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, The College of William & Mary in Virginia, Strathclyde University in Glasgow and the Institute of Education in London.