• Earlier Englishes with focus on the Early Middle English period 
• Spatial variation and language change  
• English Historical linguistic with focus on phonology, morphology and lexicology 
• Middle English grammar writing 
• Mapping of language 

After completing my studies in English and German Language and Literature at the University of Zurich, I joined the English Department as assistant to Prof. Schreier in 2006 and instructor in English (historical) linguistics. I successfully defended my PhD thesis in Early Middle English dialectology in 2012. It was published two years later as Diffusion and Change in Early Middle English: Methodological and Theoretical Implications from the LAEME Corpus of Tagged Texts (Schweizerische Anglistische Arbeiten 141; Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag). Since then, I have moved on to various administrative positions before accepting the position as General Manager of the English Department in 2023. 

Two publications in collaboration with Dr. Annina Seiler Rübekeil as first author are due to appear in 2025.  

• An edited volume presents Old English texts surviving in Swiss libraries in their historical, cultural and linguistic contexts in ten chapters written by students of the English Department and international scholars.  https://schwabe.ch/Old-English-in-Switzerland-978-3-7965-5204-5 
• An overview article on grammatical treatises in early English will be published in the New Cambridge History of the English Language. Vol II. Documentation, Data sources and Modelling (eds. Merja Kytö and Erk Smitterberg). https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/new-cambridge-history-english-language-documentation-sources-data-and-modelling-volume-2

I regularly teach a seminar in the modules “History of the English Language 1: Focus on Old English” and “History of the English Language 2: Focus on Middle English” 

I’m happy to supervise BA and MA theses connected to my research interests outlined above, i.e. Old or Middle English topics or papers on historical linguistics, language variation and change. 

My publications in ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive):  My publications in ZORA (Zurich Open Repository and Archive)