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Flavia
Hodges was Director of the former Asia-Pacific Institute for Toponymy at
Macquarie University, Sydney, and headed the
Institute's Division of Technical Toponymy.
By
training she is a linguist, with a special interest in historical
and comparative linguistics, Indo-European philology and linguistic
typology. After
studying at Cambridge University, she has divided
her career between the academy and the world of publishing.
In
England, she
co-authored with Patrick Hanks several reference works on personal
names, including A Dictionary of Surnames (Oxford University
Press 1988) and A Dictionary of First Names (Oxford
University Press 1990), and also worked as a lexicographer on
several projects for Collins and Oxford and managed the creation of
a range of bilingual technical dictionaries for Routledge.
Since moving to Australia in 1994 she has worked on
dictionaries for The Macquarie Library and for Macquarie
University's
National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research,
commissioned Asian language learning and reference books for
Singapore-based publisher Periplus, and been associated with the
Australian National Placenames Survey since its inception in
1998. In this role she
has organised many conferences and courses relating to placenames
study, and is also co-editor with Luise Hercus and Jane Simpson
of The Land is a
Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia (Pandanus
Books 2002).
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