Susan Ehrlich

Susan Lynn Ehrlich is a Canadian linguist known for her work in both language and gender, language and the law, and the intersections between them. She studies language, gender and the law, with a focus on consent and coercion in rape trials. Education and professional career Ehrlich received an Honours Bachelor of Arts in English from York University, and both a master's degree and a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Toronto. Her PhD was awarded in 1986, for a dissertation entitled: A Linguistic Analysis of Point of View in Fiction. Between 1983 and 1986 she held lecturer positions at the University of Toronto, Brock University, and York University. In 1986, she joined York University's Department of Languages Literatures and Linguistics as a sessional faculty member. Between 1988 and 1990 she held this same position on a full-time basis as an assistant professor. In 1990, she became an associate professor at York University and obtained full professorship in 1999. Ehrlich has served as a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley's linguistics department, between January and May 1992; a visiting professor at the Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics Summer Institute (LOT), in June 1997; and a visiting professor at the Summer School in Sociolinguistics at the University of Edinburgh, in June 2010.