Assistant Professor in English Historical Linguistics at the Department of English and the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics (OTS) at Utrecht University. Her research interests cover historical linguistics, language variation and change, and Old and Middle English dialects, particularly Old Northumbrian and northern Middle English. Her teaching interests also include English medieval culture and literature.
After completing B.A. programmes in English at Reading University and English Language and Linguistics at Seville University, Marcelle Cole obtained her Ph.D. in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Seville (Spain). Her dissertation (Old Northumbrian Verbal Morphosyntax and the (Northern) Subject Rule, John Benjamins, 2014) explores verbal morphosyntax in Old Northumbrian in relation to the grammatical constraint known as the Northern Subject Rule. Before her appointment at Utrecht University, she was Assistant Professor at the Department of English and the Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) at Leiden University.