Huld received his
B.A. (1972) at
California State University, Los Angeles, and his
M.A. (1978) and
Ph.D. (1979) at the
University of California, Los Angeles. He subsequently served Lecturer at California State University, Los Angeles (1983-1998), Instructor at Mount Saint Mary's College (1991-1998), Assistant Professor in the Department of English at California State University, Los Angeles (1998-2004), Associate Professor in the Department of English at California State University, Los Angeles (2004-2007), and Professor in the Department of English at California State University, Los Angeles (2007-2015). Huld retired as Professor Emeritus in 2015. Huld specializes in
Indo-European linguistics. He is the author of numerous influential works on this subject. He is a contributor to the
Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture and the
American Heritage Dictionary, a board member of the
Journal of Indo-European Studies, President of the Friends and Alumni of Indo-European Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and member of the
Linguistic Society of America, the Early English Text Society, and the Linguistic Association of the Southwest. ==Selected works==