Robyn Carston

Professor Robyn Carston FBA
Nationality	New Zealand
Title	Professor of Linguistics

Academic background
Alma mater	University of Canterbury Victoria University of Wellington University College London
Thesis title	Pragmatics and the explicit/implicit distinction (1986)
Doctoral advisor	Deirdre Wilson
Academic work
Discipline	Linguistics
Sub discipline	Pragmatics Semantics Philosophy of language

Robyn Anne Carston, FBA is a New Zealand linguist and academic, who specialises in pragmatics, semantics, and the philosophy of language. Since 2015, she has been Professor of Linguistics at University College London.

Carston was born in New Zealand. She studied English Literature at the University of Canterbury, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) 1975. She then studied for an honours degree in linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, graduating with a BA (Hons) degree in 1976. She moved to England to study at University College London (UCL), graduating with a Master of Arts (MA) in Phonetics and Linguistics in 1980. She remained at UCL to undertake postgraduate research under the supervision of Deirdre Wilson. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1986. Her doctoral thesis was tilted "Pragmatics and the explicit/implicit distinction".

In July 2016, Carston was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the UK's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.