Background
Kirk, John Monfries was born on May 1, 1952 in Falkirk, Scotland. Son of John and Margaret (Monfries) Kirk.
Kirk, John Monfries was born on May 1, 1952 in Falkirk, Scotland. Son of John and Margaret (Monfries) Kirk.
Master of Arts, University Edinburgh, Scotland, 1975. Postgraduate, University Bonn, Germany, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy, University Sheffield, England, 1987.
Lecturer English, University Bonn, 1975-1978. Junior research fellow in English language University Sheffield, 1978-1981. Sales representative for Scotland and Northern Europe, Academy Press and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, London, 1982-1983.
Lecturer English Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, since 1983. Visiting scholar University Oslo, 1983. Adjunct associate professor University Georgia, Athens, since 1990.
Visiting professor University Michigan, 1992. Academy adviser in English language Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, since 1991.
Member Linguistics Association Great Britain, American Dialect Society, Association for Literature and Linguistic Computing, Poetics and Linguistics Association, International Society for Dialectology and Geolinguistics, Association for Scottish Literature Studies (life).