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)