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Katharina von Elbwart

Service

Reviewing, committee work and networks in my discipline, at Paderborn University and before that at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Memberships

  • Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

    • Member of the Linguistics in the School Curriculum Committee (LiSC)
    • Member of the Scholarly Teaching Special Interest Group
  • American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)

  • German Association for Foreign Language Research (DGFF)

  • German Association for Applied Linguistics (GAL)

Service to the discipline

  • 2026

    Book reviewer for J. Daniel Hasty, Southern English: An Introduction to the Language of the American South, Routledge

  • 2026

    External reviewer for Reflection and Reflexivity in Linguistic Landscape Studies (edited volume), John Benjamins

  • 2026

    Manuscript reviewer for the International Journal of Multicultural Education

  • 2026

    Manuscript reviewer for the Journal of Education for Teaching, Routledge

  • 2026

    Manuscript reviewer for the International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Wiley

  • 2025

    Manuscript reviewer for Herausforderung Lehrer*innenbildung – Zeitschrift zur Konzeption, Gestaltung und Diskussion, HLZ, Bielefeld

  • since 2024

    Submission reviewer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

  • since 2020

    Submission reviewer for the Linguistic Society of America, the New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference (NWAV) and ELIPRO

Service to the department

  • since 2025

    Representative, English Language Education Program, UPB

  • since 2020

    Coordinator of the Praxissemester English, UPB

  • since 2023

    Coordinator, NAEFLed lecture series, UPB

  • 2023

    Member, departmental search committee, UPB

  • 2020–2024

    Safety representative, UPB

  • 2018–2019

    Coordinator, faculty exchange with FHSU, UDE

  • 2018

    Member, departmental search committee, UDE

  • 2017–2019

    Advisor, study abroad programs, UDE

  • 2015–2019

    Coordinator, oral exam scheduling, UDE

  • 2015–2019

    Member, curriculum development committee, UDE

  • 2016–2017

    Member, departmental search committee, UDE

  • 2016–2018

    Member, departmental reaccreditation committee, UDE

Service to the faculty and university

  • 2021–2026

    Member, Jenny Aloni Center for Early Career Researchers, UPB

  • 2024–2025

    Organizer, LTI Symposium, international conference, UPB

  • 2023–2024

    Member, committee of the DGFF conference for early career researchers, UPB

  • 2017

    Member, Teaching Innovation Award Committee, UDE

  • 2015–2016

    Member, ICEHL XIX conference committee, UDE

  • 2013

    Member, ConPract Fair Committee, UDE

  • 2011–2012

    Student member, GMF Conference Committee, UDE

Additional roles and activities

  • since 2024

    Consultant, Ernst Klett Verlag, vocational English education: subject-specific and pedagogical consulting for the development of English textbooks and teaching materials for vocational education

  • since 2023

    Coordinator, ELIPRO Germany (Education, Languages and Internationalization Network), with two research foci, English Medium Instruction and Global Englishes: representing the network in Germany, compiling teaching materials and maintaining the research database

  • since 2020

    Coordinator, Praxissemester for English teacher education students at Paderborn University: organizational and advisory responsibilities at the university, placement schools and teacher training centers in East Westphalia-Lippe (OWL); coordination of network meetings and classroom observations

  • 2014–2016

    Lecturer, Going Abroad lecture series on language education and nonstandard varieties in formal education

Project management experience

  • 2016–2019

    Supervision and onboarding of student and research assistants at the Chair of Variationist Linguistics, Department of Anglophone Studies, University of Duisburg-Essen

  • 2011–2019

    Project development and supervision of student research projects at the Center for Textual Scholarship and Editorial Studies (AEET), University of Duisburg-Essen

  • 2013

    Office management, Graz International Summer School (student assistant), University of Graz, Austria

  • 2012–2013

    Project management for ConRuhr North America (UA Ruhr Liaison Office New York) and for DFG Priority Program 1313 “Biological Responses to Nanoscale Particles” (student assistant), University of Duisburg-Essen

  • 2012–2013

    Project coordination for the ConPract Job Fair, organized by students of the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen

  • 2007–2009

    Project and team management, “Events”, Avantgarde Gesellschaft für Kommunikation, Cologne

  • 2006

    Office and team management, Schülerhilfe Haltern, Haltern am See

Volunteer activities

  • since 2014

    Chair of the Student Exchange Program, Lower Rhine Region, Association of German-American Clubs (VDAC)

  • 2019–2022

    Vice President, German-American Friendship Association Lower Rhine (DAFN)

  • 2014–2019

    Member of the selection committee for the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (CBYX)