Finn Shepherd

About me

I am a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the German, Nordic, and Slavic+ Department. I received my Master of Arts in German in 2023 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and German in 2019 from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. I am fluent in English, German, and Dutch.

Research interests

My research interests fall within the discipline of sociolinguistics. My main (or most current) research interests involve language contact between German, Dutch, and English, and I am working on a research project examining the use of English in German and Dutch memes and memes as speech acts in online communication. I am also interested in gerontolects such as Jugendsprache. My research interests also include code-switching and multilingualism.

News Articles and Mentions

Horizons UnlimitedGrowing up in a small town just 30 minutes from Guilford, Finn Shepherd ’19 was about as local as you can get when he started attending the College. In fact, Finn even went to the Early College at Guilford for high school where he exclusively took college classes during his junior and senior years.

Early AdopterPsychology and German Studies double major Finn Shepherd ’21 is technically a first-year student, but as overachieving is kind of his thing, he very well may graduate in 2019.

2019 Recipients of Fulbright AwardBy Jhanna Vasser '19

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