Miriam Neuhausen

Lecturer & Doctoral Candidate she/her
English Linguistics | Mair

ˈmɪɹɪjəm ˈnɔɪhaʊzn
miriam.neuhausen@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
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I am a Ph.D. student in English linguistics and conduct research on a secluded bilingual Pennsylvania German-speaking community in Ontario, Canada. I am primarily interested in how language is used in lesser-studied multilingual communities and how speakers in these communities use language to express different identities.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Sociolinguistics
Language and identity
Sociophonetics
Language contact
Language variation and change
Lesser-studied languages and communities
Language and social injustice

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

since 2020	Ph.D., English Linguistics Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
2016 – 2020	M.A., English Linguistics Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
2018 – 2019	Visiting Scholar University of Toronto
2015 – 2016	International Student University of Southampton
2012 – 2016	B.A., English/Romance Studies Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main

SCHOLARSHIPS/FUNDING

since 2020	Landesgraduiertenförderung Ph.D. scholarship
2019	Verband der Freunde der Universität Freiburg e.V. grant for a conference talk at NWAV48,University of Oregon
2018 – 2019	DAAD-PROMOS "Thesis abroad" scholarship for a research stay abroad, University of Toronto
2015 – 2016	Erasmus+ scholarship for two semesters abroad, University of Southampton

AWARDS

2021	Prix Bartholdi
2021	Stephen-Crane-Forschungspreis für nordamerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften
2020	ICR Outstanding International Thesis Award

EMPLOYMENT

since 2021	Research fellow & lecturer, University of Freiburg
2021	Co-organiser of the 43rd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society, Hermann Paul School of Linguistics
2017 – 2019	Research assistant & tutor, University of Freiburg

PUBLICATIONS

(accepted) Miriam Neuhausen. Adjusting data collection in New Englishes communities: The sociolinguistic interview and Old Order Mennonites. IN New Englishes, New Methods: Methodological considerations for the study of New Englishes, eds.: Guyanne Wilson & Michael Westphal, series: Varieties of English around the world, ed. Stephanie Hackert, John Benjamins.
(accepted) Axel Bohmann, Julia Müller, Mirka Honkanen & Miriam Neuhausen. A diachronic look at the English passive: Distributional semantics of be versus get. IN Language and linguistics in a complex world, eds. Ingo H. Warnke & Beate Busse, series: Discourse patterns, De Gruyter.

OUTREACH/SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

Science Slam, Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Freiburg (2021)
Blog post, Canadian Language Museum (2021)
Representation of the Freiburg English Linguistics department, Freiburger Wissenschaftsmarkt (2017)

CONFERENCE TALKS

CoTiSp (Language Contact through Time and Space), University of Bayreuth (2021): “Dialect contact and stance-taking in a remote Mennonite community in Canada”
ISLE (International Society for the Linguistics of English), University of Eastern Finland (2021): “Dialect contact and performance in a Mennonite community”,
Imagining Canada: “Discovering” & navigating “all our relations” in an (un)common country, University of Freiburg (2020): “Discovering home, navigating language change, imagining identities—Old Order Mennonites in southern Ontario”
IRG Symposium 2020, University of Fribourg, Switzerland (2020): Poster presentation „A diachronic look at the English passive: Distributional semantics of be versus get” with Julia Müller
Workshop Fieldwork in New Englishes, University of Freiburg (2019): “Out in the field: Old Order Mennonites and the Wit’suwit’en First Nations” (with Sonya Kinsey)
NWAV48 (New Ways of Analyzing Variation), University of Oregon (2019): “To raise or not to raise: Pennsylvania German English in Canada”

TEACHING

Sociophonetics
Third Wave sociolinguistics: Language variation in Canada and the U.S.
Hands-on sociophonetics