Catherine is head of pronunciations for Oxford Dictionaries. Her research interests include language and gender/sexuality, sociolinguistics, accents and dialects, Latin, conlangs, and forensic phonetics. She also enjoys feminist activism, comic books, knitting, swimming in the sea, and board games. Geek Dictionary Corner, where she collects words not currently in the dictionary for consideration and reports on the progress of the previous year's suggestions, has become a Nine Worlds tradition.