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03/2026 - 02/2027
Gastdozent (Assistant Professor) als Professurvertretung am Department für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Universität Ljubljana
2025
Doktorprüfung, LMU München
Promotionsfach: Englische Sprachwissenschaft und mittelalterliche englische Literatur
seit 10/2023
Wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Lehrstuhl für Historische Sprachwissenschaft und Literatur des Mittelalters (Prof. Ursula Lenker) LMU München
2023-2024
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft (Prof. Thomas Hoffmann) Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
2020-2023
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Nachwuchsforschungsgruppe "Flexible Schreiber in der Sprachgeschichte", (Dr. Markus Schiegg, Prof. Mechthild Habermann), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2020
Lehrbeauftragter in Englischer Sprachwissenschaft, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
2014-2020
Studium der Fächer Anglistik, Physik und Erziehungswissenschaften,
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
– Erstes Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien
– Master of Education (M.Ed.)
– Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

Wissenschaftliches Profil

Forschungsinteressen

  • Sprachvariation und -wandel
  • Korpuslinguistik
  • Historische Morphosyntax
  • Historische Orthographie
  • Quaker Plain Speech

Publikationen

Monografie

  • Under review: The Corpus of Patient Letters - UK: Variation and change in orthography and Quaker Plain Speech in the 19th and early 20th centuries

Aufsätze

  • Accepted. Apostrophes in Late Modern English nominal possessives: New evidence 'from below' based on patient letters. In Anita Auer & Markus Schiegg (eds.), West Germanic language histories ‘from below’: New data sources and approaches. Benjamins.
  • Forthcoming. [with Christine Elsweiler and Judith Huber]. The role of morphosyntactic simplification and dialect contact in the loss of thou V-st. English Language and Linguistics.
  • 2025. Plain speech and the Quaker pronoun of address in nineteenth-century England. In Samantha M. Litty & Nils Langer (eds.), Language ideology, policy, and practice: Focus on minoritized languages past and present, 229–253. Oxford: Peter Lang.

Vorträge

  • "New perspectives from unheard voices: Patient letters in historical sociolinguistics." Anglistiktag 2026, LMU München, 14 September 2026
  • "The new Corpus of Patient Documents-UK: coverage – case studies – potential." ICAME 47, Universität Koblenz, 29 May 2026.
  • "Revisiting the possessive apostrophe in Late Modern English: A variationist study based on patient letters." FJUEL 2025, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, 10 October 2025.
  • "Towards a history of long-s in Late Modern English personal letters: A case study from the Mary Hamilton Papers." 14th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference (HiSoN2025), Bristol University, 23 May 2025 [with Christine Wallis].
  • "CoPaDocs-UK: A new data source for the study of Late Modern English 'from below'." Language history 'from below': Data sources and (digital) approaches, Université de Lausanne, 6 February 2025.
  • "The biggest thief + lier that walked + wont: Restrictive subject relativisation with personal heads in 19th and early 20th-century English." 15th Summer School in Historical Sociolinguistics (Pecha Kucha), Amrum, 26 July 2023.
  • "Long-s in English personal letters from the 19th and early 20th centuries." 12th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference (HiSoN 2023), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1 June 2023.
  • "Variation and change in the Quaker 2nd-person pronoun (1850–1900)." 11th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference (HiSoN 2022), Universidad de Murcia, 3 June 2022.
  • "'Quaker Speak' in 19th-century patient letters from the York Retreat." NARNiHS Research Incubator at KFLC, University of Kentucky, 22 April 2022.
  • "Thou promised it to me one 1st day: Plain speech in 19th-century Quaker correspondence." Atelier des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Dialekte und Sprachvariation, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 28 January 2022.
  • "The role of dialect contact in the loss of thou V-st." ISLE 6, University of Eastern Finland, 4 June 2021 [with Christine Elsweiler and Judith Huber].
  • "The role of inflexional economy in the loss of thou V-st." PGR/ECR Virtual Colloquium in Germanic Linguistics, University of Sheffield, 12 January 2021.
  • "Loss of THOU in Standard English: Evidence from Early English correspondence." Atelier des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Dialekte und Sprachvariation, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1 February 2019.

Lehrveranstaltungen

  • Introduction to Linguistics
  • Introduction to Linguistics: English Phonetics and Phonology
  • [Vorlesung] History of English
  • [Seminar] 19th-Century English
  • [Seminar] English Historical Linguistics: A Sociolinguistic Perspective
  • [Seminar] Historical Sociolinguistics
  • [Seminar] The Spelling of English: A Diachronic Perspective
  • [Übung] Exploring Linguistic Variation in England: Past and Present
  • [Übung] Introduction to Middle English
  • [Übung] Introduction to Old English / Altenglisch
  • [Übung] Introduction to the History of English
  • [Übung] Lektüre historischer Handschriften
  • [Übung] The Language of Chaucer: Sex and Practical Jokes in the Miller’s Tale

Weitere Tätigkeiten

Mitorganisator von Tagungen:

  • Forum Junge Englische Linguistik in Bayern, 2026
  • XXIII. Studientag Englisches Mittelalter, 2023
  • 10th Conference of the Historical Sociolinguistics Networks (Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics), 2021

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