Since 03/2022
Lecturer and postdoctoral researcher in English Linguistics at Rostock University

10/2020 – 03/2022
Lecturer and postdoctoral researcher in English Linguistics at Greifswald University

08/2018 – 08/2020
Lecturer in Linguistics at Leiden University

10/2014 – 12/2014
Guest researcher at Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

01/2013 – 03/2013
Guest researcher at Lancaster University

09/2012 – 11/2018
Doctoral researcher in Linguistics at Leiden University
PhD: Grassroots prescriptivism
Member of the research project Bridging the Unbridgeable: Linguistics, Prescriptivists and the General Publichttps://bridgingtheunbridgeable.com/

09/2011 – 09/2012
Lecturer in Linguistics at University of Zadar

10/2011 – 03/2012
Exchange student at Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg

09/2009 – 07/2012
Joint MA degree in English and American Studies at University ofKarl Franzens University of Graz

07/2004 – 07/2009
Gymnasiallehramt for the subjects English and Philosophy at University of Osijek

• Sociolinguistics
• Language variation and change
• Language attitudes and ideologies
• Online communities
• Discourse analysis

2022
(with Theresa Heyd). (in press). Grassroots prescriptivism. In J. Beal, M. Lukač & R. Straaijer (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Prescriptivism. Routledge.
(with Adrian Stenton) (in press). Copy editors, (not) all alike. In J. Beal, M. Lukač & R. Straaijer (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Prescriptivism. Routledge.

2019
(with Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade). Attitudes to flat adverbs and English usage advice. In S. Jansen and L. Siebers (Ed.), Processes of Change in English - Studies in (Historical) Sociolinguistics(pp.159–82). John Benjamins.

2018
Grassroots prescriptivism [Doctoral dissertation, Leiden University]. LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics.
Grassroots Prescriptivism: An analysis of individual speakers’ efforts in maintaining the standard language ideology. English Today, 34(4). https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/english-today/article/grassroots-prescriptivism/1AAA77010004E1C2FCB09F149494D0B2
What is the difference between ‘thus’ and ‘thusly’. E-rea,15(2). https://journals.openedition.org/erea/6152

2017
From usage guides to language blogs. In Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (Ed.), English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes (pp. 107–26). Oxford University Press..

2016
Grammar Advice in the Age of Web 2.0: Introducing the new (and keeping the old) language authorities. English Today,32(2), 2–3. doi:10.1017/S0266078416000134
Linguistic prescriptivism in letters to the editor. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development,37(3), 1–13. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01434632.2015.1068790

2015
Apostrophe(’)s, who needs them? English Today,30(3), 3–4. doi:10.1017/S0266078414000200
From usage guides to Wikipedia. Re-contextualizing the discourse on language use. In Marina Bondi, Silvia Cacchiani und Davide Mazzi (Eds.), Discourse In and Through the Media: Recontextualizing and Reconceptualizing Expert Discourse(pp.315–50). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2014
(with Višnja Pavičić Takač). How word choice matters: An analysis of adjective-noun collocations in a corpus of learner essays. Jezikoslovlje, 14(2–3), 385–402. https://hrcak.srce.hr/112232

2013
Down to the bone: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis of pro-eating disorder blogs. Jezikoslovlje, 12(2), 187–209. https://hrcak.srce.hr/clanak/112745
Germany's Recognition of Croatia and Slovenia: Portrayal of the Events in the British and the US Press. AV Akademikerverlag.

Sommersemester 2023

Übung - Fundamentals of Grammar
Proseminar - The Language of Narratives

Wintersemester 2022/23

Grundkurs - English Linguistics: An Introduction
Hauptseminar - Language and Gender

Sommersemester 2022

Grundkurs - Fundamentals of Grammar
Proseminar - Sociolinguistics in the Digital Age