CV

Professional Experience

since 2018          

Akademische Rätin a. Z. 

Chair of English Linguistics, University of Bayreuth, Germany

since 2021   Organizer Bayreuth Food & Language (BaFoLa) Digital Lecture Series 

since 2017   Social Media Manager (Facebook) for the Chair

2021-2023   Organizer Linguistic Laboratory (LingLab) - Work-in-Progress Colloquium

02-03/2024   Visiting Scholar at Digital Ethnography Research Center (DERC), RMIT, Australia (hosted by Prof. Dr. Tania Lewis)

03-04/2023   Visiting Scholar at Language Studies Unit, University of Tampere, Finland (hosted by Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Daria Dayter)

02-05/2022   Visiting Scholar at Department of Languages, University of Helsinki, Finland (funded by Fritz Thyssen Foundation; hosted by Prof. Dr. Minna Palander-Collin)

10/2019   Fieldwork and Visiting Scholar at Fu Jen University, Taiwan (funded by DFG)

2015-2021   Co-Organizer Linguistic Colloquium

2012­­­­­–2018        

Research Associate

Chair of English Linguistics, University of Bayreuth, Germany

02–03/2018 Visiting Scholar at English Seminar, University of Basel, Switzerland (hosted by Prof. Miriam Locher)

2013–2015 Co-Organizer "Work in Progress" Colloquium

02–04/2014 Fieldwork in Seoul, South Korea

Funding

2024 Funding for the Online Selves - Self Online (OSSO) digital lecture series, Universitätsverein Bayreuth (Partners & Friends of the University),€450

2023-2026 DFG (German Research Foundation) research grant RU 2369/3-1 for the project The Discursive Construction of Eating as Entertainment: Carnivalesque Consumption in the Digital Sphere, PI, €514,235

2023 Funding to host Dr. Hanwool Choe for a two-week research stay (joint project: The Meta-Discourse of Online Eating in the News), University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt”, €3,500

2023 Funding for Selling Seduction: Einblicke in die Welt der Verführungsschwindler; science communication event featuring documentary screening and discussion, Equal Opportunities Department (Budget for innovative gender equality measures), University of Bayreuth, €1,020

2022 Workshop funding for Methods in Historical Pragmatics (together with Theresa Neumaier), Deutscher Anglistenverband, €500

2022 Research grant for a 3-month visiting scholarship at the University of Helsinki, Finland, for the project Historical Perspectives on the Speech Act of Indirect Complaint: Indirect Complaint Realization, Strategies, and Responses, Fritz Thyssen Foundation, €4,068

2020-2021 Conference funding for Language Contact Through Time and Space (together with Valentina Serreli & Katrin Pfadenhauer), WiN Bayreuth, €9,800

2020 Conference funding for Influence, Manipulation, and Seduction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language (together with Daria Dayter), SNF, €14,000 (+ €8,900 from the University of Basel, Promoting Graduates Funds)

2019-2021 DFG (German Research Foundation) research grant RU 2369/1-1 for the project English in Taiwan: Forms and Functions, co-PI (with Jakob Leimgruber), €7,880

2019-2020 Funding for the teaching project Syntax Online Support (S.O.S.), development and implementation of an exercise-based online platform for syntactic analysis, Center for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education of the University of Bayreuth (FBZHL), €1,460

2018 Conference funding for Talking about Food: Local & Global Contexts (together with Susanne Mühleisen), Fritz Thyssen Foundation, €5,500

Conference, Panel & Workshop Organization

2023

Panel Co-Organization Anglistentag 2023 Language and Food, September 24-27, Siegen, Germany. (with Susanne Mühleisen, University of Bayreuth)

Panel Co-Organization IPrA 2023 Dude Food and Chick Beer: Linguistic and Semiotic Perspectives on Nutrition as a Gendered Cultural Practice, July 9-14, 2023, Brussels, Belgium. (with Theresa Heyd, University of Greifswald, and Janina Wildfeuer, University of Groningen)

2022

Workshop Co-Organization Methods in Historical Pragmatics, December 8, 2022, Bayreuth, Dortmund, Germany / Online. (half-day workshop; funded by Deutscher Anglistenverband) (with Theresa Neumaier, TU Dortmund)

Conference Co-Organization Influence, Manipulation, and Seduction 2: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language, November 18-19, 2022, Bayreuth, Germany & Tampere, Finland / Online. (two-day interdisciplinary and international conference). (with Daria Dayter, Tampere University) 

Workshop Co-Organization BICLCE9, World Englishes and Social Media, September 15-17, 2022, Ljubljana, Slovenia. (with Jakob Leimgruber, University of Regensburg, and Sven Leuckert, TU Dresden)

2021

Conference Co-Organization Language Contact Through Time and Space (CoTiSp), September 13-14, 2021, Bayreuth, Germany / Online. (two-day interdisciplinary and international conference; funded by WiN Bayreuth) [originally scheduled for April 3-4, 2020; postponed due to COVID-19] (with Katrin Pfadenhauer and Valentina Serreli, University of Bayreuth)

Workshop Co-Organization ICAME 42 Pre-Conference Workshop To Boldly Go: Corpus Approaches to the Language of Science Fiction, August 18, 2021, Dortmund, Germany. (with Claudia Lange, TU Dresden)

Panel Co-Organization IPrA 2021 Historical Perspectives on Aggression and Rapport in English Speech Acts, June 27-July 2, 2021, Winterthur, Switzerland / Online. (with Theresa Neumaier, TU Dortmund)

Workshop Co-Organization ISLE 6 Pre-Conference Workshop Lesser-Known and Expanding Circle Varieties of English on Social Media, June 2, 2021, Joensuu, Finland / Online. [originally scheduled for June 3, 2020; postponed due to COVID-19] (with Jakob Leimgruber, Universities of Freiburg and Basel, and Sven Leuckert, TU Dresden)

2020

Conference Co-Organization Influence, Manipulation, and Seduction: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language, November 20-21, 2020, Basel, Switzerland / Online. (two-day interdisciplinary and international conference; funded by SNF and the University of Basel) [originally scheduled for June 26-28, 2020; postponed due to COVID-19]. Conference trailer available here. (with Daria Dayter, University of Basel)

2019

Conference Co-Organization Forum Junge Englische Linguistik (FJUEL), September 12-13, 2019, Bayreuth, Germany. (two-day national conference for junior researchers; funded by University of Bayreuth Graduate School) (with Annika Blum and Jude Ssempuuma, University of Bayreuth)

Panel Co-Organization IPrA 2019 Formality and Informality in Online Performances, June 10, 2019, Hong Kong. (with Susanne Mühleisen, University of Bayreuth)

Workshop Co-Organization ICAME 40 Pre-Conference Workshop Corpus Approaches to Social Media, June 1, 2019, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. (with Daria Dayter, University of Basel)

2018

Workshop Co-Organization ICAME 39 Pre-Conference Workshop Discourse Markers in the Outer and Expanding Circles: A Corpus-Linguistic Perspective, May 30, 2018, Tampere, Finland. (with Sven Leuckert, TU Dresden)

Conference Co-Organization Talking About Food: Local & Global Contexts, April 27-28, 2018, Bayreuth, Germany. (two-day interdisciplinary and international conference; funded by Fritz Thyssen Stiftung) (with Susanne Mühleisen, University of Bayreuth)

2015         

Conference Co-Organization Forum Junge Englische Linguistik, September 18-19, 2015, Bayreuth, Germany. (two-day national conference for junior researchers; funded by University of Bayreuth Graduate School) (with Helene Steigertahl, University of Bayreuth)

2013

Workshop Organization Statistics for Linguists, November 22, 2013, Bayreuth, Germany. (one-day workshop for students and staff at the University of Bayreuth)

Membership in Societies

Deutscher Anglistikverband (German Association for the Study of English)

Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL)

International Association of World Englishes (IAWE)

International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)

Other Professional Activities / Service Activities

conference program committee / scientific committee member

7th Meeting of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 7); 7th Corpora & Discourse International Conference (CADS2024)

ad-hoc article peer review

Discourse, Context & Media; Discourse Studies; English Today; Food & Foodways; International Journal of Business Communication; International Journal of Communication; International Journal of Corpus Linguistics; Internet Pragmatics; Journal of Gender Studies; Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development; Journal of Pragmatics; Language and Communication; Language, Culture and Society; Narrative Inquiry; PLOS ONE; Pragmatics and Society; Text & Talk; Visual Communication; World Englishes

book manuscript review

Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; Publicacions Universitat València (PUV)  

book proposal review

Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge

since 2023 Board member German Association for the Study of English (Deutscher Anglistikverband)

since 2020 Executive committee member/webmaster for the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)

since 2020 Scholarship committee member of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes); referee in selection seminars (6x)

2020-2021 Mentor in the University of Greifswald Mentoring Program for PhD Students

2019-2024 Member of the DFG-funded scientific network “Non-Canonical Syntax of English”

Education

2017                   

Doctor of Philosophy in English Linguistics 

University of Bayreuth, Germany

Thesis title: "Characterizing the Spoken Korean English Repertoire: Morpho-Syntactic Patterns of Korean(ized) English"

Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Susanne Mühleisen

External examiners: Prof. Dr. Edgar Schneider, Prof. Dr. Magnus Huber

Final evaluation: summa cum laude

2012                          

Master of Arts in Intercultural Anglophone Studies

University of Bayreuth, Germany

Specialization: English Linguistics

Thesis title: "English Loanwords in Korean"

Final evaluation: 1.07 (GPA 3.9)

2010–2012 Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes)

2011 Exchange semester at Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea

2010                   

Bachelor of Arts in English Studies

University of Bayreuth, Germany 

Minor subject: Applied Computer Programming

Thesis title: "Politeness through Honorifics: A Study of Speech Levels among Korean Students in Bayreuth (Germany) and Korea"

Final evaluation: 1.3 (GPA 3.7)

2007–2008 Exchange semester at Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea

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