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Shobhana Chelliah is a linguist who specializes in Tibeto-Burman languages and language documentation, as well as the structure of English around the world. She earned her doctorate in linguistics in 1992 at the University of Texas at Austin, where her doctoral adviser was Anthony C. Woodbury. Her dissertation focused on the description of Meitei grammar. She has also worked on the digitization of Old Meitei manuscripts from the 16th-18th centuries, as well as the documentation of the Lamkang language. Her other publications are on the typology of case marking, as well as the Handbook of Descriptive Linguistic Fieldwork. Chelliah was the Program Director for the Documenting Endangered Languages program at the National Science Foundation from 2012-2014. She is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of North Texas.