Draft:Jack Grieve

Jack Grieve (born 1979) is a Canadian linguist. Since 2017, he has been employed as a Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He received his PhD in 2009 in Applied Linguistics under the supervision of Douglas Biber at the Northern Arizona University. Previously, he was employed as a post-doctoral research fellow in Dirk Geeraert s's Quantitative Lexicology and Variational Linguistics research unit at the University of Leuven in Belgium and then as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Forensic Linguistics at the Centre for Forensic Linguistics at Aston University in the United Kingdom. He was also a Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters, he has published two books: Regional Variation in Written American English  and The Language of Fake News.

His main research interest involves studying language variation and change through the computational analysis of large corpora of natural language, known as computational sociolinguistics. Much of his research in this area has focused on regional dialect variation in the English language based on large corpora of newspaper articles and social media data , including mapping the use of interjections  and profanity. He has also studied the spread of neologisms in American English. In addition, he has conducted research in the field of authorship analysis, including investigations into the authorship of the Bitcoin white paper , the Bixby Letter   , and Donald Trump' s social media posts.