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)” (summer term 2004)

  • Tutorial “Understanding English-German Contrasts” (summer term 2004)

  • “Introduction to Linguistics: Basic Concepts, Questions and Methods” (winter term 2004-2005, summer term 2005, winter terms 2005-2006, 2007-2008 and 2008-2009)

  • Aufbaumodul “Levels of Linguistic Analysis I: Words and Sentences, Structure and Meaning” (summer term 2006)

  • Aufbaumodul “Levels of Linguistic Analysis II: Grammatical theory and the structure of English” (winter term 2007-2008, summer term 2008)

  • 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" (since 2004)
  • "Introduction to Linguistics II: Meaning and Language Use" (3x in summer term 2009)
  • Lecture "Phonetics" (2x in summer term 2009; 2x in winter term 2009-2010)
  • Proseminar "Sociolinguistics: Varieties of English" (summer term 2009)
  • "Introduction to Linguistics I: Morphosyntax" (winter term 2009-2010)
  • Proseminar "Variation and Change" (winter term 2009-2010)
  • Hauptseminar "Cognitive Linguistics" (winter term 2009-2010)

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: since 2009)
  • Member of the faculty council (2008-2009)

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)