Caroline Ogden

Caroline Ogden has a portfolio career around the spoken and written word. She holds a BA (Hons) 1st Class degree in Linguistics with Philosophy and Study of Religion from the University of Hertfordshire and an MA with Distinction in Sociolinguistics from the University of Essex. A member of MENSA, with an education grounded in Latin and traditional English grammar, she speaks and reads French, Spanish and German, with a knowledge also of Italian, Dutch and Greek. In 1995, she became a Scottish Gaelic learner.

She is the author of God: A Beginner's Guide, published in 2000 by Hodder and Stoughton, and contributed a chapter on the Philosophy of Language to World Philosophy, published by Vega in 2002. She is currently working on her third book on philosophical and theological themes in Tolkien's writing. Working under the name Academic Solutions (www.academic-solutions.co.uk), she is a freelance translator from French, German and Spanish and a proofreader and copywriter/editor. She also tutors privately in French and English and has taught B Tec Drama and lectured on minority language maintenance and Study of Religion. She has been a visiting lecturer in Linguistics (with her specialisms being The History of the English Language and Language in Society) at the University of Hertfordshire for nine years.

She has also been a professional actress for over 30 years, working mostly in repertory and fringe theatre, with some TV, film and commercials (notably IBM and Barclays), has worked with Serendipity Productions, an Essex-based small-scale touring company, since 2000 and has been role-playing patients in workshops with the NHS since 2008.