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Rebecca Posner


Rebecca Posner (born 17 August 1929) is a retired British philologist, linguist, and academic, who specialises in Romance languages. From 1978 to 1996, she was Professor of the Romance Languages at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Hugh's College, Oxford; she is now professor emeritus of Oxford and an honorary fellow of St Hugh's College. Previously, she was a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge (1960–1963), Professor of French Studies at the University of Ghana (1963–1965), and a Reader in Language at the University of York (1965–1978).

In 1953, the then Rebecca Reynolds married Michael Posner. Together they had two children; a son and a daughter.


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