Kategorie: Allgemein
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Teaching
Vrije Universiteit Brussel Degree programmes I am teaching in: BA Taal- en Letterkunde MA Taal- en Letterkunde Multilingual Bachelor in Linguistics and Literary Studies (MUBA) Multilingual Master in Linguistics and Literary Studies (MUMA) BA Toegepaste Taalkunde (Applied Linguistics) MA Toegepaste Taalkunde (Applied Linguistics) Linguistics courses open to students in the Master of Education (EduMA) Linguistics…
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Outreach & media
February 2026: Podcast interview for ‚Babelonië‘, Radio Centraal Antwerpen, 5. February 2026. December 2025: Cooperation French embassy in Belgium and Faculty of Languages and Humanities for ‚Journée de la France‘ at VUB, chair of panel debate „La France et la Belgique au coeur des enjeux de la diplomatie scientifique en Europe“, 4. December 2025. February…
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Vita
Current position since October 2022: Professor for French linguistics (docent), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium 2014-2022 Post-doc researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Languages and the department of Dutch linguistics, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany 2019-2021 Acting Professor for pragmatics and comparative linguistics, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany 2021 Title of docent for Romance and Creole…
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Talks & conferences
Talks November 2025, with Leena Kolehmainen and Ulrike Vogl: „Closing doors: Universities restructuring their language training programs“ – Online Autumn Lecture of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, 27. November 2025. November 2025: „Promoting and standardising Creole languages: the decolonial dilemma“ – Workshop „Contact, Ideology and Change“, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 13.-14. November 2025. February 2025:…
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Publications
Monographs 2020: Spanisch in Berlin. Einstellungen zu einer globalen Sprache als lokale Fremdsprache. Berlin: De Gruyter. (online – open access) 2014: Die französische Kreolistik im 19. Jahrhundert. Rassismus und Determinismus in der kolonialen Philologie. Hamburg: Buske (Kreolische Bibliothek, vol. 25). Review by Georg Kremnitz (Vienna) in: Quo Vadis, Romania 44: 134-139. Review article by Silvia…
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Research
Research interests Multilingualism and language policy Sociolinguistics and language variation Creolistics and language contact Language borders and multilingual border areas Colonial and postcolonial linguistics History of philology and racialism Phonology Pragmatics (e.g. adhortatives and imperatives) Regional focus: Overseas France, Caribbean and Indian Ocean, Belgium and the Netherlands, Saar-Lor-Lux region, Berlin Linguistic focus: French and other…
