Academic CV

Since October 2023: Research assistant: English linguistics and medieval literature (chair Prof. Ursula Lenker), LMU Munich

Since October 2023: Research assistant: English linguistics (chair Prof. Thomas Hoffmann), Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

2020–2023 Research assistant: junior research group “Flexible Writers in Language History” (Dr. Markus Schiegg), FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

2020 Lehrbeauftragter in English linguistics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Prof. Judith Huber)

2014–2020 studied English linguistics and literature, physics, and pedagogy at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

• State Examination (1. Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien)

• Master of Education (M.Ed.)

Publications

• submitted. Plain speech and the Quaker pronoun of address in nineteenth-century England. In Samantha M. Litty & Nils Langer (eds.), Historical interplays between language ideology, language policy, and language practices[Historical sociolinguistics. Studies on language and society in the past]. Peter Lang.

• accepted. [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.

Conferences papers

• “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, 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 Sprach- variation, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 28 January 2022. 

• [with Christine Elsweiler und Judith Huber] “The role of dialect contact in the loss of thou V-st.” ISLE 6, University of Eastern Finland, 4 June 2021. 

• “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.