Dr Oliver Mayeux

  • Affiliated Lecturer

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Dr Oliver Mayeux is currently an Affiliated Lecturer in the French section and Convenor of the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group (CELC). He is Honorary Research Associate at Peterhouse. He completed his PhD in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge in 2019 and until October 2025 held a Title A (Junior Research) Fellowship at Trinity College. 

For up-to-date information, please check Dr Mayeux’s website. 

Teaching and supervision

Teaching interests: 

  • Language contact, variation and change;
  • Linguistic fieldwork;
  • French outside of France;
  • Creoles and pidgins;
  • Language endangerment and revitalization;
  • Linguistic theory;
  • Urban contact dialects;
  • Areal interests: North America and the Caribbean, West Africa, Vietnam.