Dr Don R. McCreary
Advisor

Dr. Don R. McCreary (Ph.D., Linguistics, University of Delaware, 1984), Professor of English and Linguistics, works primarily in lexicography and applied linguistics, as well as ESOL. He edited DawgSpeak!, the dictionary of UGA student slang, (2001, 2003, 2nd ed.), which is on the English Department's web page, www.english.uga.edu. He has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at two universities, the National University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur in 1991–1992, and Péter Pázmány Catholic University in Budapest, Hungary in 2001–2002; an Erlangen Exchange professor at the Federal University of Erlangen, Germany in 1997, and a Moss Fellow at Keio University, Tokyo, Japan in 1985.

Dr. McCreary is the Associate Editor of the Japanese–English Science and Engineering Dictionary (OHM, 1988), the English–Japanese Science and Engineering Dictionary (OHM, 1993), and has authored many articles on lexicography and Japanese applied linguistics in journals such as the International Journal of Lexicography, Lexicographica, Semiotica, and Language Sciences. He is also the co-author, with Fredric Dolezal, of 'Pedagogical Lexicography Today: A Critical Bibliography on Learners' Dictionaries with Special Emphasis on Language Learners and Dictionary Users' (Lexicographica Series Maior 96. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1999). He is on the Advisory Panel of the Macmillan English Dictionary and Macmillan Essential Dictionary at Macmillan.