The Politics of Prescriptivism: One Style Manual, One Century

Kristin VanEyk is an Assistant Professor of English at Hope College in Holland, MI, where she teaches writing and secondary English education courses. Her research focuses on language education, writing pedagogy, and standard language ideology.

Anne Curzan is Geneva Smitherman Collegiate Professor of English, Linguistics, and Education and dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the history of the English language, attitudes about language change, language and gender, lexicography, and pedagogy.