Vita

Lebenslauf

CURRENT POSITION

Since 11/2024 University of Siegen (Germany), University of Texas at Austin:  DAAD PRIME Fellow

Research Project Metaphorical framing of the concept of mestizaje in Latin American and Caribbean essays in the 20th century

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

2022 – 2024 The Lower Saxony State Board of Education, Meppen (Germany)

Traineeship for secondary education teachers in Spanish and English

• 2. State Examination for upper secondary level teaching in Spanish and English / Zweite Staatsprüfung für das Lehramt an Gymnasien

2016 – 2022 Georg-August University of Göttingen (Germany)

• Scientific Assistant in Romance Linguistics (Spanish, French)

• Erasmus Coordinator for the exchange programme with the Universitat de València and the Aix-Marseille Université

• Scientific adviser in professional education courses for French teachers by the Institute for Quality Development in the State of Lower Saxony

2017 – 2019 University of Vienna (Austria)

• University Professor in Romance Linguistics (Spanish, Portuguese, French)

2016 – 2018 University of Hildesheim (Germany)

• Scientific Assistant in Romance Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the Department of Intercultural Communication

2013 – 2016 Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany)

• Scientific Assistant and Lecturer in Romance Linguistics; 

• Doctoral thesis: “Language contact and lexical innovation in the Caribbean contact zone: the case of bozal, cimarrón and criollo”; Awarded summa cum laude (14/09/2015) and the Lilli Bechmann-Rahn-Award 2015 for an outstanding dissertation in the humanities at the Faculty of Philology

2010 – 2013 Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Germany)

• Scientific Assistant in Romance Linguistics

EDUCATION

2013 – 2015 PhD in Romance Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg

Dissertation title: Sprachkontakt und lexikalische Innovation in der karibischen Kontaktzone: die Fallbeispiele bozal, cimarrón und criollo / Language Contact and Lexical Innovation in the Contact Zone of the Caribbean: the case of bozal, cimarrón and criollo

Distinction: summa cum laude

Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Silke Jansen, Prof. Dr. Ralph Ludwig, Prof. em. Dr. Annegret Bollée

2004 – 2009 Study in Romance, English, and Russian Philology at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)

1. State Examination for upper secondary level teaching in Spanish and English (1,1)

Degree Thesis: Der frühe Spracherwerb bilingualer Kinder mit Migrations-hintergrund (am Sprachenpaar Deutsch-Spanisch) (Early German-Spanish bilingual acquisition among children with migration background) Distinction: 1,0

2005 – 2006 Study in Spanish Studies and Art at the Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres (Spain)

German and English Secondary Education Teacher Diploma

Degree Thesis: Contrastive analysis of figurative language in the original and its translations (the example of Germanic and Slavic languages): “Die Buddenbrooks” by T. Mann; Distinction: 1,0

Herausgeberschaften und Tätigkeiten in wissenschaftlichen Vereinigungen

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• German Association of Scholars in Romance Studies/ Deutscher Romanistenverband (DRV)

• German Association of Scholars in Spanish Studies/ Deutscher Hispanistenverband (DHV)

• German Association of Scholars in Portuguese Studies/ Deutscher Lusitanistenverband (DLV)

• Associação de Crioulos de Base Lexical Portuguesa e Espanhola (ACBLPE)

• Society for Caribbean Research (Socare)

Internationale Kooperationen

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

since 03/2025 Research at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, the University of Texas at Austin

05/2015; 02/2014 Research at the Archivo General de Indias (AGI), Seville

02/2012 – 04/2012 Field research in Martinique and Guadeloupe

12/2011 Research at the Bibliothèque du Laboratoire de Parole & Langage, Aix-en-Provence (France)

06/2011 Research at the National Archive of Portugal, Lisbon

02/2011 – 03/2011 Research at the Archivo del Reino de Valencia, Valencia

12/2010 Research at the Spanish National Library, Madrid

INTERNATIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCE

10/2017 – 01/2019 Visiting professor at the Department of Romance Studies, University of Vienna

02/2018; 05/2016 Erasmus professor at the Departamento de Filología Española, Universitat de València;

05/2015 Erasmus professor at the Departamento de Filología Alemana, Universidad de Sevilla

03/2011 Visiting professor at the Facultat de Filologia, Universitat de València

Tätigkeit als Gutachter

• Reviewer for journals Études Créoles, Revue de Linguistique Romane, and Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur