Edwin L Battistella

Edwin L. Battistella is an emeritus professor of linguistics and writing at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon.  He is the author of six books and over seventy articles.  His essays have appeared in Time Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Conversation, AEON, the Huffington Post, Politico, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe, Choice, and the Library Journal. 

Battistella was Dean of the School of Arts & Letters at Southern Oregon University from 2000-2006 and as interim Provost from 2007-2008. As a faculty member, he taught a wide variety of linguistics and writing courses, from syntax and the history of English to grant writing and writing for publication. He served on the Executive Committee of the Linguistic Society of Americas from 2014-2016 and on the board of directors of Oregon Humanities from 2009-2015. He is on the editorial board of The Oregon Encyclopedia, He is the co-editor-in-chief of the Wiley-Blackwell journal Language and Linguistics Compass and a Fellow of the Linguistic Society of America.  In 2024 he received the Distinguished Scholarship Award from Southern Oregon University.

Battistella has contributed a monthly blog for Oxford University Press, called Between the Lines with Edwin Battistella since 2014. He also moderates the Literary Ashland blog feed, which began in 2011.