Raymond Hickey is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Duisburg and Essen, Department of Anglophone Studies, Germany. His main areas of research are varieties of English, focused on Irish English, and general questions of language contact, shift, and change. He has written several books, including Listening to the Past, Audio Records of Accents of English (2017), Sociolinguistics in Ireland (2016), and A Dictionary of Varieties of English (Wiley Blackwell, 2014), and has published numerous articles on various issues within linguistics, as well as producing an electronic corpus of Irish English.