Talks & Presentations

Guest Lectures, Invited Talks & Keynotes

[G35] 2024, "Selling Seduction: The Discursive Construction of Expert Identities in the Seduction Industry" (guest lecture), March 20, Tampere University, Finland, invited by Prof. Dr. Daria Dayter (conducted virtually).

[G34] 2024, "Investigating East Asian Varieties of English: From South Korea to Taiwan" (invited talk), March 15, University of Melbourne, Australia.

[G33] 2024, "The Discursive Construction of Eating as Entertainment: Carnivalesque Consumption and Performative Excess in the Digital Sphere" (invited talk), March 13, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia, Digital Ethnography Research Center.

[G32] 2023, "Performing Eating-As-Entertainment: Online Eating Shows and Involvement Strategies" (invited talk), November 10, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, invited by Prof. Jan Chovanec.

[G31] 2023, "Carnivalesque Consumption: The Language of Excessive Food Videos and the Next Click" (keynote), November 9, The Analysis of the Language of Persuasion and Manipulation in New Digital Genres, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, invited by Dr. Dominika Beneš Kováčová.

[G30], 2023, "'I'm Gonna Have a Bite of my Deliciousness' - Food Evaluation in Eating Shows" (guest lecture), October 11, Tampere University, Finland, invited by Prof. Dr. Daria Dayter (conducted virtually).

[G29] 2023, "'Complainers are seldom pity'd, and boasters yet seldomer beleiv'd' - Complaint Metadiscourse in Letters and Etiquette Books in the Early and Late Modern English Period" (invited talk), June 26, University of Augsburg, Germany, invited by Prof. Dr. Claudia Claridge.

[G28] 2023, "Daebak! Transnational K-Phenomena and Korean-English Language Contact" (guest lecture), June 16, TU Dresden, Germany, invited by Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange.

[G27] 2023, "Selling Seduction: The Discursive Construction of Expert Identities in the Seduction Industry" (guest lecture), March 29, Tampere University, Finland, invited by Prof. Dr. Daria Dayter.

[G26] 2023, "Language & Food: Delicious Research in Culinary Linguistics" (guest lecture), March 3, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Medellin, Colombia, invited by Dr. Raúl Mora (conducted virtually).

[G25] 2022, "Triangulating Practice and Discourse in Pick-up Artist Instructional Videos: From Voice-Over to Video Comments" (invited talk), October 6, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, School of English Seminar Series (conducted virtually).

[G24] 2022, "Challenges and Opportunities in Investigating East Asian Englishes: The Case of South Korea" (invited talk), June 28, University of Regensburg, Germany, invited by Prof. Dr. Jakob Leimgruber.

[G23] 2022, "Like 'a Hungry Man with a Mutton Chop on the Gridiron': Investigating Indirect Complaints in ARCHER" (invited talk), May 6, Research Unit for the Study of Variation, Contacts and Change in English (VARIENG), University of Helsinki, Finland.

[G22] 2022, "Of K-Pop and Mukbang: Transnational K-Phenomena and Linguistic Interactions" (invited talk), May 2, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland, invited by Dr. Heli Paulasto.

[G21] 2022, "Delicious Meals and Conversations: Food and Language in YouTube Eating Shows" (keynote), April 29, Pagpaambit - Tales Around the Table: Food in Linguistics and Literature, Cebu Technological University, the Philippines (conducted virtually).

[G20] 2021, "Intimate Consumptions: Food and Language in YouTube Eating Shows" (invited talk), November 24, Tampere University, Finland, invited by A/Prof. Dr. Daria Dayter (conducted virtually).

[G19] 2021, "Online Discourse of the Speed Seduction Community" (invited talk, with Daria Dayter), October 14, Tilburg University, the Netherlands, invited by Prof. Dr. Tom Van Hout (conducted virtually).

[G18] 2021, "Exploring the Online Seduction Industry: Methodological and Ethical Aspects" (invited workshop, with Daria Dayter), July 18, #GenderChallenge – Exploring Gender Identities Online, University of Greifswald & University of Konstanz (conducted virtually).

[G17] 2021, "Pick-up Artists' Conversations with Women: Power Asymmetry and Forced Engagement" (invited talk, with Daria Dayter), June 15, LIP (Language, Ideology and Power) Research Group Meeting, Lancaster University, UK (conducted virtually).

[G16] 2021, "Online Research Ethics Revisited: Dealing with Digital Data in Linguistics" (invited talk), April 28, Research Colloquium of the Chairs of English and American Studies, TU Dortmund, Germany (conducted virtually), invited by Prof. Dr. Patricia Ronan.

[G15] 2021, "What’s in a Name? Korean(ized) English(es) and the World Englishes Paradigm" (invited talk), April 14, KoHL/콜 (Korean Heritage Language) Research Group Roundtable, University of California Irvine (UCI), USA (conducted virtually).

[G14] 2020, "Eating for Your Pleasure: Exploring the Genre of Eating Shows" (keynote), May 22, 67. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft, University of Bayreuth, Germany (conducted virtually).

[G13] 2019, "Travel Around the World with English: An Introduction to World Englishes" (guest lecture), October 9, Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, invited by Prof. Dr. Yun-Pi Yuan.

[G12] 2019, "World Englishes Research Goes East Asia: South Korea and Taiwan" (guest lecture), October 7, Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, invited by Prof. Dr. Yun-Pi Yuan.

[G11] 2019, "From English in Korea to Eating Shows on YouTube: My Life as a Linguist" (guest lecture), October 3, Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, invited by Prof. Dr. Ming-i Lydia Tseng.

[G10] 2019, "Corpus Compilation for World Englishes" (invited workshop), October 2, Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, invited by the Department of English Language and Literature.

[G9] 2019, "Using English in Korea: K-Pop, English Fever, and Konglish" (invited talk), January 23, Linguistische Werkstatt, University of Bamberg, Germany, invited by Dr. Valentin Werner.

[G8] 2018, "Modelling World Englishes: A Case Study of South Korea" (invited talk), June 11, University of Regensburg, Germany, invited by Dr. Sarah Buschfeld and Prof. Dr. Edgar Schneider.

[G7] 2018, "More Than Just K-Pop: Forms and Functions of English in South Korea" (guest lecture), March 6, University of Basel, Switzerland, invited by Prof. Dr. Miriam Locher.

[G6] 2017, "Language Contact in South Korea: Keuriseumaseu Keikeu, Karol, and Teuri (with Best Wishes from Santa Harabeoji)" (guest lecture), December 20, LMU Munich, Germany, invited by Prof. Dr. Stephanie Hackert.

[G5] 2017, "More Than Meets the Eye: English in South Korea" (guest lecture), December 1, TU Dresden, Germany, invited by Dr. Sven Leuckert.

[G4] 2017, "Language Contact in Outer Space: Code-Switching on Firefly" and "The Korean Writing System" (guest lectures), November 29, TU Dresden, Germany, invited by Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange.

[G3] 2016, "Spoken English in South Korea: A Corpus-Based Investigation" (guest lecture), February 23, University of Oxford, Hertford College, UK, invited by Dr. Jieun Kiaer.

[G2] 2015, "Meri Keuriseumaseu and Santa Harabeoji: English in South Korea" (Christmas lecture), December 17, University of Bayreuth, Germany, invited by faculty student council (Fachschaft).

[G1] 2013, "English in Korea" (guest lecture via Skype), May 3, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana Medellin, Colombia, invited by Dr. Raúl Mora.

Conference Presentations (International Conferences)

[H38] 2024, "Discourses in a Misogynist Community: Establishing Power Asymmetry and Challenging the Concept of Consent" (with Daria Dayter), May 6, 2nd Feminist Peace Research in Finland Symposium, Tampere University, Finland.

[H37] 2024, "'It’s not Easy Talking to the Camera by Yourself': The Discursive Construction of Eating Show Performer Identities on YouTube", January 29-31, Language of Food: Exploring Culinary Communication and Culture, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

[H36] 2023, "What the Press Talks About When the Press Talks About Digital Eating Performances – English Newspaper Reporting on Mukbang" (with Hanwool Choe), September 13-15, Food and Communication 3, Örebro, Sweden.

[H35] 2023, "Corpus-Based Approaches to Language and Food in Star Trek: From Nostalgia to Replicators", August 15-19, Disruptive Imaginations (SFRA & GfF Conference), Dresden, Germany.

[H34] 2023, "Magical Affirmations: Affirmative Statements in the Pick-up Artist Paradigm" (with Daria Dayter; presented by DD), July 9-14, IPrA 2023, Brussel, Belgium.

[H33] 2023, "Discourse-Pragmatic Like in East Asian Englishes: Focus on Taiwan" (with Jakob Leimgruber), June 19-22, ISLE 7, Brisbane, Australia / Online.

[H32] 2022, "Creepy, Confident, or Persistent? Triangulating Practice and Discourse in Pick-up Artist Instructional Videos" (with Daria Dayter), November 18-19, Influence, Manipulation, and Seduction 2 - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language, Bayreuth, Germany / Tampere, Finland / Online.

[H31] 2022, "'Asian Accent is Awesome' – Valuing Englishes on YouTube" (with Sven Leuckert), September 15-17, 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE), Ljubljana, Slovenia.

[H30] 2022, "Pick-Up Artist Guru, Dating Coach, or Flirting Mentor – The Discursive Construction of Expert Identities in the Seduction Industry" (with Daria Dayter), August 26-28, 6th Corpora & Discourse International Conference (CADS), Bertinoro, Italy.

[H29] 2021, "Communicating Taste and Constructing Food Reviewer Identities in Korean and American Mukbang" (with Hanwool Choe), August 15-20, AILA 2021, Groningen, The Netherlands / Online.

[H28] 2021, "Historical Approaches to Indirect Complaints and Indirect Complaint Responses", June 27-July 2, 17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Winterthur, Switzerland / Online.

[H27] 2021, "Constructing Authenticity in Seduction 'Guru Discourse'" (with Daria Dayter), June 27-July 2, 17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Winterthur, Switzerland / Online.

[H26] 2021, "Compiling the Corpus of Spoken English in Taiwan" (with Jakob Leimgruber), June 7-10, Sociolinguistics Symposium 23, Hong Kong / Online.

[H25] 2021, "Asian Varieties of English on YouTube" (with Sven Leuckert), June 2-5, ISLE 6, Joensuu, Finland / Online.

[H24] 2021, "Atrocious Quotes - Researching Pick-Up Artists and the Seduction Industry" (with Daria Dayter), May 14, BAAL Language & New Media SIG Annual Seminar - Dealing with Distressing Data, Cardiff, UK / Online.

[H23] 2020, "Persuasive Language and the Discourse of Seduction Gurus" (with Daria Dayter), November 20-21, Influence, Manipulation & Seduction - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language, Basel, Switzerland / Online.

[H22] 2019, "Fresh Science, Science Buffs, and Exclusive Science Classes: A Discourse Analysis of Travel Advertising in a Popular Science Magazine", September 26-28, 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE), Bamberg, Germany.

[H21] 2019, "Doing a Dinner Conversation…By Yourself: The Performance of Informality in YouTube Eating Shows", June 9-14, 16th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Hong Kong.

[H20] 2018, "Iceberg Ahead: Self-Praise in Online and Offline Discourse" (with Daria Dayter), September 6-8, Second International Conference on Sociolinguistics (ICS2), Budapest, Hungary.

[H19] 2018, "'Lots of Alcohol They Have': Information Packaging Constructions in Spoken Korean(ized) English" (with Sven Leuckert), July 17-20, ISLE 5, London, UK.

[H18] 2018, "In Like South Korea: The Use of Like in Korean English Speech", May 30-June 03, ICAME 39, Tampere, Finland. Funded by Stabsabteilung Chancengleichheit – Gleichstellungsmittel (University of Bayreuth).

[H17] 2018, "Dinner for One: The Use of Language in Eating Shows on YouTube", April 27-28, Talking about Food - Local & Global Contexts, Bayreuth, Germany.

[H16] 2017, "Designing SKATE: Investigating South Korean Attitudes Towards English", October 4-7, ISLE Summer School - Variation in World Englishes: Advanced Issues in Theory and Methodology, Regensburg, Germany.

[H15] 2017, "Fantastic Variants and Where to Find Them: A Descriptive Account of the English Spoken by Koreans", September 28-30, 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (7BICLCE2017), Vigo, Spain. Funded by German Academic Exchange Service - DAAD.

[H14] 2017, "Non-Canonical Syntax in Spoken Korean(ized) English" (with Sven Leuckert), September 2-3, New Perspectives on Non-Canonical Syntax in English, Dresden, Germany.

[H13] 2017, "Killer Hugs, Mad Skills and No One Trick Ponies: Self-Presentation on Pick-up Artists’ Online Forums" (with Daria Dayter), July 16-21, 15th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Belfast, Northern Ireland. Funded by Stabsabteilung Chancengleichheit – Gleichstellungsmittel (University of Bayreuth).

[H12] 2017, "Preposition Overload? Examining the Use of Prepositions by Korean Speakers of English", May 24-28, ICAME 38, Prague, Czech Republic.

[H11] 2016, "Morpho-Syntactic Patterns of Spoken English in an Expanding Circle Context", September 18-21, ISLE 4, Poznań, Poland. Funded by University of Bayreuth Graduate School.

[H10] 2016, "Spoken English in Korea" (Pecha Kucha presentation), September 4-9, Language and Space Summer School, Kloster Kappel, Switzerland. Funded by Stabsabteilung Chancengleichheit – Gleichstellungsmittel (University of Bayreuth).

[H9] 2016, “Spoken Korean English: The Morpho-Syntactic Dimension”, June 15-18, Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, Murcia, Spain. Funded by German Academic Exchange Service – DAAD.

[H8] 2015, "Cuppa Coffee? Challenges and Opportunities of Compiling a Conversational English Corpus in an Expanding Circle Setting", November 27-28, Methods and Linguistic Theories (MaLT), Bamberg, Germany.

[H7] 2015, "Many Friend and A Lot of Thing: The Reduction of Plural Redundancy in Spoken Korean English", October 8-10, IAWE 2015, Istanbul, Turkey.

[H6] 2015, "Language in an Online Community of Pick-up Artists: Reconstructing Experience" (with Daria Dayter), April 16-17, The Ethics of Online Research Methods (BAAL Language and New Media SIG Workshop), Cardiff, UK.

[H5] 2014, "Konglish: What It Is and What It Isn’t", December 18-20, IAWE 2014, Delhi, India. Funded by German Academic Exchange Service – DAAD.

[H4] 2013, "Emerging Patterns of Korean English", November 16-18, IAWE 2013, Tempe, Arizona, USA. Funded by University of Bayreuth Graduate School.

[H3] 2013, "Speak Your Mind but Watch Your Mouth: Complaints in CouchSurfing References" (with Daria Dayter), May 23-25, Facework and Social Media, Hildesheim, Germany.

[H2] 2013, "Spoken Korean English or English as Spoken in Korea?", April 15-19, ISLE Spring School: Englishes in a Multilingual World: New Dynamics of Variation, Contact and Change, Freiburg, Germany.

[H1] 2012, "English Loanwords in Korean: Using English Words Is Cool?", December 5-9, IAWE 2012, Hong Kong/Guangzhou, China.

Conference Presentations (National Conferences)

[I6] 2023, "Let’s Eat Together: Participation Frameworks in Multi-Party Asynchronous Eating Shows", September 24-26, Anglistentag 2023, Siegen, Germany.

[I5] 2019, "Digital Food Talk: Blurring Immediacy and Distance in YouTube Eating Shows", September 22-25, Anglistentag 2019, Leipzig, Germany.

[I4] 2017, "Acceptable Variants, Uneducated Usage and Markers of Deficiency: Language Variation in the Field of World Englishes", June 02-04, Dynamik - Variation - System, Münster, Germany.

[I3] 2014, "Compiling the Corpus of Spoken Korean English", September 26-27, Forum Junge Englische Linguistik (FJUEL), Bamberg, Germany.

[I2] 2013, "Emerging Patterns of Spoken Korean English", September 20, Forum Junge Englische Linguistik (FJUEL), Regensburg, Germany.

[I1] 2012, "English in Korea: Nativized Variety or Learners’ English?", September 28, Forum Junge Englische Linguistik (FJUEL), Augsburg, Germany.

Poster Presentations

[J6] 2019, "Historical and Experimental Approaches to Indirect Complaints and Indirect Complaint Responses", September 12-13, Forum Junge Englische Linguistik (FJUEL), Bayreuth, Germany.

[J5] 2019, "Eating Shows on YouTube as Digital Artifacts: Food Discourses Online", February 12-14, Ethnography with a Twist, Jyväskylä, Finland. Funded by WiN-UBT (University of Bayreuth).

[J4] 2016, "Online Reports of Seduction: When Your Informants Don't Trust You" (with Daria Dayter), July 11-13, Social Media & Society, London, UK.

[J3] 2014, "Explaining Emerging Patterns: A Corpus-Based Study of the Koreanization of English", August 24-27, ISLE 2014, Zurich, Switzerland. Recipient of an ISLE travel bursary.

[J2] 2013, "Spoken Korean English or English as Spoken in Korea?", April 15-19, ISLE Spring School: Englishes in a Multilingual World: New Dynamics of Variation, Contact and Change, Freiburg, Germany.

[J1] 2012, "Welkum to Cheezeland: Linguistic Features of lolspeak and its Relation to Attitudes and Identity", April 26-27, Language and Social Media: New Challenges for Research and Teaching Linguistics, Leicester, UK.

Talks & Presentations

Guest Lectures, Invited Talks & Keynotes

Conference Presentations (International Conferences)

Conference Presentations (National Conferences)

Poster Presentations

Other Presentations (selected)