About​

Who am I?

I am a postdoctoral researcher at the English linguistics department at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany.

I’ve just started a new research project, Sounds, attitudes, and meaning, which looks at why people have such strong feelings towards different accents and languages. I’m also interested in how language attitudes are made use of in the media, bringing together sociolinguistics, literary and cultural studies, and game studies.

In 2021, I co-founded the Association for Diversity in Linguistics. I’m currently co-editing Linguistic Intersections of Language and Gender, a collection of contributions to our first large conference in 2023.

As part of the research unit Spoken Morphology, I wrote my dissertation about the phonetics of derived words in English, investigating how morphological properties affect the acoustic duration of derivatives. The dissertation was awarded Best Dissertation of the Year.

Experience

Oct 2018 – present

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Research Assistant and Lecturer

I developed and carried out scientific research projects, secured funding, collected data, trained teams of student assistants, analyzed data with statistical and computational models, presented results at national and international conferences, and taught undergraduate classes.

Apr 2015 – Sep 2018

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Student Assistant SHK & WHB

I annotated and cleaned various types of data, including acoustic data. I proofread journal papers, grant applications, dissertations, and edited volumes and assisted in the publication process. I also assisted in course planning, organization, and teaching, provided student support and counseling, and taught tutorials and method seminars, such as English writing classes.

Oct 2019 – Dec 2019

University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

Visiting researcher

During my stay in Aotearoa, I collaborated with international researchers, presented work at an international conference, organized a research project, administered bureaucratic tasks, and extracted, stored, and secured acoustic data.

Education

Oct 2018 – July 2022

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Doctor of Philosophy

English Linguistics, Research Unit FOR2373: Spoken Morphology
Project: Morpho-phonetic variation in English
Thesis: The phonetics of derived words: Tracing mechanisms of speech production
in the acoustic duration of English derivatives

Final grade: summa cum laude

Oct 2016 – Sep 2018

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Master of Arts

Comparative Studies in English and American Language, Literature and Culture
Thesis: Language Ideologies in Videogame Discourse

Final grade: 1,0

Oct 2013 – Sep 2016

Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

Bachelor of Arts

English and American Studies    major subject
Communication and Media Studies     minor subject
Thesis: Silence in Japanese-American Poetry

Final grade: 1,0

My skills

My data analysis skills include:

quantitative
statistical analysis with regression models, mixed-effects models, GAMs, linear discriminative learning

qualitative
text and discourse analysis, literary criticism, stylistics

My programming and software skills include:
R, Python, Julia, Praat, LaTeX, MS Office, Sony Vegas Pro, Adobe Photoshop, Cubase

Languages
German
English
Japanese
French
Spanish
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