Geoffrey Nunberg

Geoffrey Nunberg is an adjunct full professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information, a linguist, and former chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary. Since 1989, he has done a language feature on NPR's "Fresh Air," and his commentaries have appeared in the New York Times and other publications. A winner of the Linguistic Society of America's Language and the Public Interest Award, he is also the author of "Talking Right" and "Going Nucular." Nunberg lives in San Francisco,...See more

Geoffrey Nunberg is an adjunct full professor at UC Berkeley's School of Information, a linguist, and former chair of the Usage Panel of the American Heritage Dictionary. Since 1989, he has done a language feature on NPR's "Fresh Air," and his commentaries have appeared in the New York Times and other publications. A winner of the Linguistic Society of America's Language and the Public Interest Award, he is also the author of "Talking Right" and "Going Nucular." Nunberg lives in San Francisco, California. See less