since April 2017: Research associate / Post-Doc, TU Dresden
April 2024-September 2024: Interim professor (W3): English linguistics, University of Greifswald
April 2021-March 2022: Guest lecturer, TU Dortmund University (4 SWS)
April-September 2020: Interim professor (W2): Varieties of English, University of Leipzig
April-September 2018: Guest lecturer, University of Regensburg (3 SWS)
October 2016-March 2017: Research associate, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
October 2015-September 2016: Research associate, University of Regensburg
June 2014-September 2015: Research assistant, TU Dresden
October 2014-March 2015: Guest lecturer, TU Dresden (2 SWS)
October 2013-December 2013: Research assistant, TU Dresden
2017
Dr. phil. in English Linguistics, TU Dresden
Thesis: Topicalization in Asian Englishes: Forms, Functions, and Frequencies of a Fronting Construction
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Claudia Lange
External examiners: Prof. Dr. Edgar W. Schneider, PD Dr. Alexander Kautzsch
Evaluation: summa cum laude
2013
Master of Arts (M.A.) in European Languages, TU Dresden
Thesis: Copula Deletion in English Varieties: Exploring Patterns of Explanation for Copula Absence in World Englishes
Final grade: 1,0 (very good; ECTS grade: A)
2011
Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), teaching degree (English and German), TU Dresden
Thesis: Regionale Variation in den Städten Dessau und Magdeburg [Regional variation in the cities of Dessau and Magdeburg]
Final grade: 1,8 (good)
2024
"Language and Mobility" (co-organised with Theresa Neumaier and Manuela Vida-Mannl), panel at Anglistiktag 2024; University of Augsburg, Germany
2024
"Seismic Shifts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mountaineering" (co-organised with Franziska Röber), international conference at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
2024
"Drittmittel- und Förderanträge in der Anglistik" (co-organised with Sandra Dinter), online workshop on third-party funding in English studies
2023
"Specialised Registers from a Sociohistorical Perspective", conference workshop at ICEHL-22; University of Sheffield, UK
2022
"World Englishes & Social Media" (co-organised with Jakob Leimgruber and Sofia Rüdiger), conference workshop at 9th BICLCE; University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
2021
"Lesser-Known and Expanding Circle Varieties of English on Social Media" (co-organised with Jakob Leimgruber and Sofia Rüdiger), pre-conference workshop at ISLE 6 (International Society for the Linguistics of English); University of Eastern Finland, Finland
2019
"Schritte nach der Promotion" (co-organised with Sandra Dinter, Philip Jacobi, Ilka Mindt, Felix Sprang, and Wieland Schwanebeck), workshop at Anglistiktag 2019; University of Leipzig, Germany
2019
"Orality, Literacy – and the Digital? New Perspectives on Language of Immediacy and Language of Distance" (co-organised with Sarah Buschfeld), panel at Anglistiktag 2019; University of Leipzig, Germany
2018
"Discourse Markers in the Outer and Expanding Circles: A Corpus-Linguistic Perspective" (co-organised with Sofia Rüdiger), pre-conference workshop at ICAME 39; University of Tampere, Finland
2017
"NoCaSynE - International Symposium: New Perspectives on Non-Canonical Syntax in English" (co-organised with Claudia Lange and Teresa Pham); Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
2016
"8. Sprachwissenschaftliche Tagung für Promotionsstudierende" (co-organised with Sandra Aehnelt, Johanna Kehr, Josephine Klingebeil-Schieke, and Rebecca Schreiber); Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Deutscher Anglistikverband e.V.
International Association for World Englishes (IAWE)
International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)
copRe ('communicative practices on Reddit'), scientific network organised by Daria Dayter & Thomas C. Messerli (https://copre.org/)
NoCaSynE: 'Syntax Beyond the Canon', DFG-funded scientific network organised by Teresa Pham and Sven Leuckert (https://sites.google.com/view/nocasyne/home)
Book series: New Directions in World Englishes Research (Edinburgh University Press, series editor: Sarah Buschfeld) [series website: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-new-directions-in-world-englishes-research]
ICAME Journal (journal editors: Merja Kytö & Anna-Brita Stenström) [journal website: https://sciendo.com/journal/ICAME]
Board member:
Deutscher Anglistikverband (2018-2023)
faculty board of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies, TU Dresden (2021-2024)
Peer review of journal articles:
Asian Englishes; Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies; Chinese Journal of Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Linguistics; English Today; English World-Wide; Frontiers in Communication (Language Sciences); Frontiers in Psychology (Language Sciences); Heliyon; ICAME Journal; Journal of English Linguistics; Journal of Medical Internet Research; Journal of Pragmatics; Language and Cognition; Language Resources and Evaluation; Language Sciences; Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads; Linguistics Vanguard; Lingua; Nordic Journal of Language Teaching and Learning; Oxford Intersections; Pragmatics; Pragmatics & Society; Research in Corpus Linguistics; Social Science Computer Review; Studia Neophilologica; Theory and Society; World Englishes
Peer review of contributions to edited collections and handbooks:
Cambridge University Press; John Benjamins; Mouton de Gruyter; Peter Lang; Wiley-Blackwell
Peer review of conference abstracts:
Digital Humanities 2023 (nominated for Best Peer Review award); Digital Humanities 2024; Digital Humanities 2025; New Ways of Analyzing Variation 50 (NWAV50); New Ways of Analyzing Variation 51 (NWAV51); New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 (NWAV53); 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC16); 17th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC17)
Book proposal review:
Edinburgh University Press; Taylor & Francis
Grant proposal review:
German Academic Exchange Service ('Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst', DAAD); German Research Foundation ('Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft', DFG); 'Multimediafonds' (TU Dresden)