Jack Chambers is a professor of Sociolinguistics at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Sociolinguistic Theory (2009) and Dialectology (1998) and many other books and articles. He maintains a parallel vocation in jazz criticism, with the biographies of Miles Davis (1998) and Richard Twardzik (2008), as well as scores of articles.

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CHAMBERS, J.K. (Jack) –Department of Linguistics, University of Toronto
J.K. (Jack) Chambers is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Toronto. He is author of Sociolinguistic Theory (3rd ed 2009) and Dialectology (with Peter Trudgill, 2nd ed. 1998), first editor of The Handbook of Language Variation and Change (2002), and other books. His articles include "Canadian Raising" (1973), "Dialect Acquisition" (1992), "Sociolinguistics of Immigration" (2003), "Canadian Dainty" (2004) and "Sociolinguistics and the Language Faculty" (2005). He maintains a parallel vocation in jazz criticism, including the biographies Milestones: The Music and Times of Miles Davis (Da Capo 1998) and Bouncin' with Bartok: The Incomplete Works of Richard Twardzik (Mercury 2008).