Charlotte Brewer
Charlotte Brewer (born 1956) is professor of English language and literature at Hertford College, Oxford.Brewer began her research career as a medievalist, with publications on the late Middle English poem Piers Plowman and its textual and editing history.In a later book, Piers Plowman: the Evolution of the Poem (Cambridge University Press, 1996; reprinted 2006)[2], Brewer looked at how editors producing single printed texts of the poem over the last five centuries assessed the evidence of the poet's original intent from the numerous and lexically varied scribal manuscripts available for scholarly interpretation.Brewer's recent research interest has attempted to understand how the OED has chosen quotations.In 2009, Brewer held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to explore the OED's treatment of female-authored quotation sources of the eighteenth century.