Victoria Nyst

Victoria Nyst is a university lecturer whose research interests include sign language documentation and description, lexicography, linguistic iconicity, and the gesture-sign language interface. She has an MA in African Linguistics from Leiden University (1999) and a PhD in Linguistics (University of Amsterdam, 2007) with a thesis on an endangered sign language from Ghana, entitled 'A descriptive analysis of Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana)', under the supervision of Prof. Anne E. Baker, Prof. Maarten Mous and Dr. Roland Pfau.

Her research interests are sign language endangerment, documentation and description, and community based field linguistics.