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Lutz Marten

SOAS University of London, United Kingdom

Lutz Marten is Professor of General and African Linguistics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is the Founding Chair of the International Conference on Bantu Linguistics and currently serves as the President of the Philological Society, the oldest UK learned society dedicated to the study of language. He is a former Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Cultures and Head of the Doctoral School, as well as a former UK Co-Director of the London Confucius Institute.

He is interested in how language is structured and used, how languages differ and change over time, and how language is linked to culture, society, history, nature and other domains of human life. Most of his work is related to African languages and he has worked with researchers and communities across the continent for many years. His recent and current research projects include Morphosyntactic Variation in Bantu, Cultural Translation of Covid-19 in London’s Community Languages, the Description and Promotion of the Kenyan Bantu Language Kitaveta, and Variation in Swahili.

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