Deborah Jane Cameron, a British linguist and feminist, died on January 20, 2026, at the age of 67.
She held the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford University. Cameron’s work focused on sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology, with much of her research examining the relationship between language, gender and sexuality.
She also wrote The Myth of Mars And Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages?, published in 2007. Before joining Oxford, she taught at the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education, the College of William & Mary in Virginia, Strathclyde University in Glasgow and the Institute of Education in London.
Deborah Jane Cameron (10 November 1958 – 20 January 2026) was a British linguist and feminist who held the Rupert Murdoch Professorship in Language and Communication at Worcester College, Oxford University.