Brief Curriculum Vitae
Jack Windsor Lewis is a freelance author who has for several decades
lectured on (chiefly EFL) phonetics around Europe and other parts of
the world.
He has been on the staff of several universities including 19 years at
Leeds near which city he now lives. His publications have included many
articles, textbooks and A Concise
Pronouncing Dictionary of British and
American English (1972, 1979 London: OUP). In 1974 he recast for
A. S. Hornby the treatment of pronunciation in the third edition of the
Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary
of Current English for the first time giving American
pronunciations in a major British EFL dictionary.
Education etc
- Cardiff Court Road Primary School 1933-37
- Howard Gardens High School Cardiff 1937- 44
- Higher School Certificate English, French, Latin 1944
- British Army 1945-48 at Omagh, Hillsea, Arncott/Bicester,
Chiseldon etc: initially RAOC then (attached) Royal Army Education Corps
- University of Wales, Cardiff 1948-51: English, French, Italian,
Archaeology. Graduated Honours Medieval English (II 2) 1951
- University College London: Phonetics Courses 1954-55 & 56-57
Certificate of the International Phonetic Association (1st Class) 1957
Main Appointments
- Erith Technical College, Kent: Lecturer 1954-57
- Swedish Folk University at Stockholm, Trollhättan and Uddevalla:
Lecturer in English 1957-58
- Mangold Institute, Madrid, Spain: Teacher of EFL Phonetics etc
1958-59
- Dewsbury & Batley Technical etc College, Yorkshire: Lecturer
in English 1959-60
- University of Tehran, Iran: Lecturer in English 1960-63
- University of Oslo, Norway: Lecturer in English Phonetics 1963-70
- Free University, Brussels, Belgium: Phonetics Institute,
Professor & Head of Department of English 1968-69
- University of Leeds: Lecturer in Phonetics in the Department of
Linguistics &
Phonetics, 1970-89
Other Lecturing/Teaching Activities
- Tutor/Lecturer on British Council Summer Schools 1955, 1964-69, 1972
& 1979
- Tutor at Davies’s Summer Schools of English Cambridge 1959-63
- Tutor/Lecturer on University of London Summer School of English 1967, 1968 & 1969
- Organiser of the Leeds University
International Conferences on
The Teaching of Spoken English in 1977, 79 & 81
- Director of the British Council London Summer Schools on The
Teaching of Spoken English 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 & 1975
- Lecturer on English Phonology University of London Summer School
of English 1974, 1975 & 1976
- University College of Ripon & York St John Dept of
English Language & Linguistics: Part-time Lecturer 1990-91
- Manchester Metropolitan University Department of Psychology &
Speech Pathology: Part-time lecturer 1992
- University College London: Lecturer & Tutor on Summer Courses
in
English Phonetics from 1990 every year to the present.
- University of Corunna, Spain: Honorary Director English Phonetics
Course 1993
- University of Murcia, Spain: Organiser English Phonetics Summer
Courses 1993-99
- Guest Lecturer at over eighty other universities, at the British
Institute of Recorded Sound, for the British Council and other bodies
in various countries including Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Chile, Croatia, the (now) Czech Republic,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Iran, Iraq,
Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Poland, Romania, the (now) Slovak
Republic,
Slovenia,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Tunisia
Consultancies etc
at
various times to:
- The BBC and ITV
- OUP, CUP and other publishers
- West Yorkshire Playhouse and other theatres
- Police forces & legal practices on many occasions 1975-86.
Mainly involving court appearances as "expert witness"
- Examiner at various times for the College of Speech Therapy and
for the International Phonetic Association
Professional Associations
- Life Member of the International Phonetic Association (joined
1954, member governing Council from 1985 to 1990)
- Life Member of the Philological Society (joined 1965)
- Founder member of the International Association for Forensic
Phonetics (1991)