Kerstin Dierolf
Kerstin Dierolf
Research Associate
Room: UA-232
Postal Address
Universitätsallee 1
85072 Eichstätt
Office hours
Winter semester 2025/2026: Tu, 02:15-03:00 pm, by appointment

Academic CV

Since 09/2021 – Research Associate at the Chair of German Linguistics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt

10/2025 – PhD in German Linguistics

10/2020 – 10/2025 – Doctoral project on the intelligibility of the historical stages of the German language (supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kürschner)

10/2018 – 03/2020 – Master’s studies in German and Latin at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Master of Arts)

04/2016 – 09/2018 – LehramtPlus program for secondary school teaching at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (First State Examination in German & Latin, Bachelor of Arts)

10/2011 – 03/2016 – Teacher training studies for secondary schools at the University of Regensburg

Research Interests

  • Historicial Linguistics
  • Intelligibility between Closely Related Languages and Varieties
  • German in Southern Brazil

Teaching

Winter Semester 2025/2026:
  • Seminar: Contested Analyses in German Linguistics
Sommersemester 2025
  • Research Seminar: The Language of Advertising
Winter Semester 2024/2025:

Basic Module 1: German Linguistics 1 (seminar & tutorial)

Summer Semester 2024:

Seminar: Intelligibility between Closely Related Languages and Varieties

Winter Semester 2023/2024

Seminar: Syntax of Present-Day German

Summer Semester 2023

Seminar: German Orthography

Winter Semester 2022/2023

Basic Module 1: German Linguistics 1 (seminar & tutorial)

 

Summer Semester 2022
  • Basic Module 2: Present-day German Language (seminar & tutorial)
Winter Semester 2021/2022

Seminar: Phonological Change in German