Prestigious fellowship for Manchester Professor

16 Dec 2013

Professor Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, from the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, has been elected Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

The specialist in French language and linguistics, based in the Division of Linguistics and English Language, said she was delighted to be honoured by the Danish equivalent of the British Academy.

The Academy was founded in 1742 by the then secretary of state, Count Johan Ludvig Holstein, and the history professor Hans Gram.

Members of the Academy research, lecture and publishing in nearly all fields of science. The Academy has approximately 250 national and 260 foreign members.

She said: “I am grateful to the academy for awarding me and my subject area this honour. It is a fantastic thing to be honoured by such a prestigious body.”