Curriculum Vitae
Personal Information
- born in Berlin, 14/03/1978
Education and positions
- 1997: High school diploma ('Abitur'), Wald-Oberschule Berlin.
- 2002: M.A. in English Studies, Italian Linguistics and General Linguistics at the Freie Universität Berlin; Thesis title "Personal Pronouns in
English".
- 2002-2003: Graduate course "European Master's Degree in Linguistics" at the Freie University Berlin and the University of Manchester; Thesis
"Towards a typology of reciprocal constructions" ("with distinction"; Supervisors: Ekkehard König and William Croft)
- 2008: Dr. phil., Summa cum laude, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2004: Temporary position as a research assistant in the project "Form und Funktion verbaler und nonverbaler Ausdrucksmittel", Project director:
Prof. Ekkehard König (Collaborative Research Center "Kulturen des Performativen", funded by the
DFG)
- 2003-2008: Research assistant at the Institut für Englische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin
- 2008-2009: Research assistant in the project "Umfassende Bestandsaufnahme, Beschreibung und Erklärung wesentlicher Kontraste zwischen den
Strukturen des Englischen und des Deutschen" ('Contrastive analysis of German and English: Description and explanation'; funded by the DFG)
- Since 2009: Lecturer in Linguistics at Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Studies abroad
Summer Schools
- July-August 2002: Summer School "Formal and Functional Linguistics", Universität Düsseldorf, jointly organized by the DGfS and the LSA
- September 2003: Summer School "Linguistic Typology", Cagliari (Italy), organized by the Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT)
- March 2006: Spring School "Linguistic Diversity", organized by the University of Leipzig and the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology
- August 2007: Fall School "Computational Linguistics", Universität Potsdam.
Teaching experience
- "Introduction to Linguistics (synchronic)"
- Tutorial "Understanding English-German Contrasts"
- "Introduction to Linguistics: Basic Concepts, Questions and Methods"
- Aufbaumodul "Levels of Linguistic Analysis I: Words and Sentences, Structure and Meaning"
- Aufbaumodul "Levels of Linguistic Analysis II: Grammatical theory and the structure of English"
- 5 classes of the course "Filologia germanica"; Short-term lectureship at the University of Perugia, Dipartimento
di lingue e letterature antiche, moderne e comparate (22-27 May 2006)
- Various stand-in classes: Examenscolloquium "Essentials of English Linguistics"
- "Introduction to Linguistics II: Meaning and Language Use"
- Lecture "Phonetics"
- Proseminar "Sociolinguistics: Varieties of English"
- "Introduction to Linguistics I: Morphosyntax"
- Proseminar "Variation and Change"
- Hauptseminar "Cognitive Linguistics"
- Hauptseminar "English Varieties"
- Hauptseminar "Corpus Linguistics"
Other academic activities
- Module commissioner for the B.A. module "Introduction to Linguistics: Basic Concepts, Questions and Methods" (from winter term 2004-2005 to
winter term 2007-2008)
- Member of the institute council (FU Berlin: 2005-2007; FSU Jena: 2009-2012)
- Member of the faculty council (2008-2009)
- Departmental Erasmus coordinator (since 2009)
Memberships
- Association for Linguistic Typology (ALT)
- Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kognitive Linguistik (DGKL)
- International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA)
- International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)
- Interdisciplinary Centre 'European Languages - Structures - Development - Comparison' (ZEUS)