Estelle Sedgewick

Career

• Professor Sedgewick became Senior Fellow of Languages in 240AC
• She has mastered more than 40 languages, and is a leading authority in the ancient languages of the Perplex City region
• She maintains a particular emphasis on techniques of teaching languages to the very young
• Professor Sedgewick holds a fellowship in Comparative Philology at the Centre for Reality Research, and is an advisor to the Department of Natural Sciences on self-regulating translation protocols
• She has won both the Huntingdon and the McKan prizes for her translations of classic works of literature, and continues to hold a PCAG record in the linguistic category
• Professor Sedgewick's lifetime of achievement in the field of language research is now honoured by the annual Sedgewick lecture, given by a scholar on a topic of popular interest
• She is one of less than 20 people in the city who speak Ryfa and Darudin
• In 263, the Carrick Foundation named the Sedgewick Travel Bursary in her honour, to enable a young Academician to spend a year traveling for the purposes of linguistic research
• Professor Sedgewick has been a radical force for change in the city, with a history of protesting issues of environmental and city concern
• She is on the board of the Alchemy Bay Society, the Catbite Nature Protection Fund and is an active member of the Mazy Trust.

General

• Has "a long and colourful history of civil disobedience, including a notorious incident in 248 in which her students organised a public foreign-language debate over the environmental policies of the Council on the steps of City Hall as their final project."
• Arrested at a protest against development of the Northside Nature Preserve, as one of the organizers/speakers

References

• Perplex City Sentinel
  • article, "Five Arrested During Northside Protest" (link)
  • letter, 18 April from J. Beloc, Earth: (link)
• Perplexcityacademy.com Languages Department