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Leonard R. N. Ashley(born January 5, 1928, in Miami)[1][2][3] is an American writer on the English language. He was for many years professor of English at Brooklyn College.[4] He was formerly on the editorial board of various academic journals in the US and abroad.

He served as secretary of the International Linguistic Society (1980 - 1982) and later was on its board, was vice-president of Amici Linguarum, and participated in the International Conferences on Onomastic Sciences in Europe. He is a former member of the United States Board on Geographical Names. is a president emeritus of The American Society of Geolinguistics.[5] Aside from more traditional works on English drama, fiction, poetry, books on onomastics and geolinguistics, he is also known for his series of popular dictionaries of the occult.[6] A recent installment in Dr. Ashley's series on the occult is the ultimate resource for information on the werewolf. He contributed a Chronicle (c. 35 pages each, thrice annually) of book reviews to Bibliothèque d'Humanuisme et Renaissance (Geneva) from the 1960s to the end of 2018 and published hundreds of book reviews in Names, Geolinguistics, etc., and articles in Names, Word Ways, Comments on Etymology, Etc., Journal of Popular Culture, Onomasica, Hamlet Studies, Points of View, and other academic journals in the US and abroad. Some of his books have been published in Dutch, Italian, German, and Norwegian translations as well as in US and UK editions.

Publications

English literature and linguistics

Popular culture and the occult

Folklore

Textbooks and translations

Conference proceedings

References

  1. ^ Men of achievement: Volume 15 1992 ASHLEY Leonard (Raymond) (Nelligan). b. 5 Dec 1928. Miami. Florida. USA Prof English, Writer, Edit Education: BA 1st class honors 1949, MA 1950, McGill Univ. Canada, AM 1953 and Ph.D. 1956. Princeton Univ., US, and afterward LHD (Columbia Theological), honorary.
  2. ^ The International authors and writers Who's Who, Ernest Kay - 1989 ASHLEY Leonard R(aymond) N(elligan). b. 5 Dec. 1928, USA. Professor of English; Writer; Editor; Poet. Education BA. 1 st Class Honours 1949, MA 1950, McGill University; AM 1953, PhD 1956, Princeton University
  3. ^ Elizabethan popular culture - Page 2 Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 "Elizabethan Popular Culture is an anthology which attempts to provide a more recent and specific account of what Professor G. B. Harrison attempted in a book published the year I was born, England in Shakespeare's Day
  4. ^ Leonard R. N. Ashley - Colley Cibber 1989 "About the Author Leonard RN Ashley (Ph.D., Princeton) and LHD (Columbia Theological, honorary) He is professor emeritus of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York where he taught 1961 - 1995. He was on the faculties of the University of Utah (1953 - 1956) and the University of Rochester (1958 - 1961) and taught part-time at the New School for Social Research (1962 - 1972). As Flying Officer and second assistant to the Air Historian of the Royal Canadian Air Force, he compiled squadron histories and was the author of the top secret report on the air defense of North America for NORAD (1956). His interests in linguistics are attested to by his past presidencies of the American Name Society (1979, 1987) and 40 years on the board of the American Name Society and the fact that he has been continually re-elected in the last three decades to the presidency of the American Society of Geolinguistics."
  5. ^ Levitt, Jesse, et al. (1987). Geolinguistic Perspectives. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, Inc.
  6. ^ Library Journal: Volume 126, Issues 6-11 William White - 2001 The Complete Book of Werewolves Dr. Leonard R. N. Ashley $14.95 • ISBN 1-56980-159-2 • Paper
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