Since 04/2024
Research assistant and PhD student in English Linguistics at the University of Rostock
PhD project: Multilingual and multimodal performances in Costa Rican tourism encounters (working title)

05/2023 – 07/2023
Research internship as part of a final thesis at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (‘National University of Costa Rica’)

10/2021 – 02/2024
M.A. English and American Studies at the University of Bamberg
Thesis title: El inglés de la calle or English at the grassroots in the Costa Rican tourism industry

09/2019 – 12/2019
Exchange student at Mary Immaculate College, Ireland

10/2017 – 03/2021
B.A. English and American Studies, Sociology and Romance Studies at the University of Bamberg

08/2016 – 08/2017
Volunteer service (weltwärts) in San José, Costa Rica

2016
A-levels (Abitur)

• Sociolinguistics
• Varieties of English
• Language Contact and Change
• Grassroots Englishes

Articles

In press. The representation of Black Namibian English in Namibia: The struggle for liberation (2007) and the motivations of regional features in World Englishes. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 35(3). (with Manfred Krug)

Presentations

“Hablar inglés abrepuertas: Grassroots uses and ways of learning English in the Costa Rican tourism industry.” Forum Junge Englische Linguistik in Bayern (FJUEL). Bamberg. October 2024.

“English at the grassroots in the Costa Rican tourism industry.” Forum Junge Englische Linguistik in Bayern (FJUEL). Erlangen. September 2023.

“The representation of Black Namibian English in Namibia: The struggle for liberation.” Anglistentag 2022. Mainz. September 2022.