Geoff Nunberg is an adjunct full professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information, a researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University, and a consulting professor in the Stanford Department of Linguistics. He has also taught at UCLA, Rome and Naples Universities. He is Emeritus Chair of the American Heritage Dictionary usage panel. His linguistics research includes work in semantics and pragmatics, text classification, and written-language structure, multilingualism and language policy, and the cultural implications of digital technologies. Nunberg has been commenting on language, usage, and society for National Public Radio's Fresh Air program since 1988. His commentaries on language also appear frequently in The New York Times and other publications. He is also a regular contributor to LanguageLog. Among his publications in this area: The Way We Talk Now: Commentaries on Language and Culture from NPR's Fresh Air (2001); Going Nucular: Language, Politics, and Culture in Controversial Times (2005); Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show (2007), and most recently The Years of Talking Dangerously (2009). In 2001, for his general writing about language , Nunberg was awarded the Linguistic Society of America's Language and the Public Interest Award. Nunberg's publications on technology include "The Places of Books in the Age of Electronic Reproduction" (Representations, 1993), "Will Libraries Survive?" (The American Prospect, November, 1998); "Les enjeux linguistiques d'Internet" (Critique Internationale, 1999), "Will the Internet Speak English?" (The American Prospect, 2000), "The Internet  Filter Farce" (The American Prospect, January 1-15, 2001) and the edited collection The Future of the Book (University of California Press, 1996). He is currently working on a book called The Decline and Fall of Information with Paul Duguid and on a book about the political significance of English vulgarity.

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