About
Jocelyn McKnight is a recent graduate from the University of Lethbridge, where she earned a BA in English, with minors in French and Linguistics. Her academic interests revolve around Old English philology, linguistics of all kinds, and Digital Humanities. More specifically her research is focused on Cognitive Semantics. Jocelyn's honours thesis is focused on polysemic extensions of war and violence vocabulary in Tok Pisin, a mixed English and Indigenous language in Papua New Guinea. Jocelyn is currently an RA for the Visionary Cross Project and the Blackfoot Language Archive, but has also works as an TA in the Linguistics and Modern Language Department and served as an instructional designer for online secondary schooling in Alberta. Jocelyn is excited to begin her MPhil in Linguistics at the University of Hong Kong in fall 2026.
Academic interests
- Philology & Digital Humanities — Old English, Old French, digital editions, scholarly interface design, 3D modeling, cultural heritage.
- Linguistics — corpus linguistics, mixed languages, semantics, cognitive linguistics, historical linguistics.