Prof. Dr. Erez Levon is Professor of Sociolinguistics and Director of the Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS) at the University of Bern. He joined the department in August 2020. Previously, he taught at Queen Mary University of London for over ten years. In his research, Levon focuses on how socially meaningful patterns of language variation are produced and perceived. He is particularly interested in language variation in the context of gender and sexuality and how these intersect with other categories of lived experience (especially race, class, and national belonging). Levon has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Israel, South Africa, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Since 2017, he has been Principal Investigator of the Accent Bias in Britain project, where he leads an interdisciplinary team investigating accent attitudes and their impact on access to employment in the UK.
