Kurt Goblirsch is a specialist in the languages and medieval literature of Germany, Scandinavia, England, and the Low Countries. His courses in linguistics range from comparative Germanic linguistics and English etymology to the structure of Modern German and German sociolinguistics. His courses in literature treat the chivalric poetry of the High Middle Ages in Germany, Germanic heroic poetry, and Scandinavian mythology. Prof. Goblirsch’s research centers on the comparative study of sound change, word forms, and word origins. His work has been sponsored by grants from the German Academic Exchange Service, the Swedish Institute, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Currently, he is co-editor of the journal NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution. He is also writing a book,"Lenition and Vowel Lengthening: On the Loss of Quantity in Germanic," set to appear with Cambridge University Press in 2014.