April 2025 – March 2029
Principal Investigator of the Botswana project within the DFG Research Unit "Convergence on Dominant Language Constellations: World Englishes in their local multilingual ecologies" (CODILAC), Institute of English and American Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany
2022 – 2025
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department for Language, Literature and Culture, Faculty of Cultural Studies, TU Dortmund University, Germany
2018 – 2022
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2018 – 2021) & Principal Investigator in the ELDP-funded Major Documentation Project "A multimedia corpus of siPhuthi, an endangered language of Lesotho: Its linguistic-cultural legacy and present-day use" (2021 – 2022), Department of African and Ethiopian Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany
2016 – 2018
Lecturer in Linguistics and Languages of Africa and Asia, Department of Linguistics, SOAS University of London, UK
2013 – 2016
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Project Director of the N/uu Language Project, Centre for African Language Diversity (CALDi), University of Cape Town, South Africa
I am a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
I was the Clayton B. Ofstad Writer-In-Residence at Truman State University, USA, in 2019 (2 months). I was a visiting scholar at the Centre for African Area Studies (CAAS) at Kyoto University, Japan, in 2015 (3 months) and at the Centre for Languages and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa (LLACAN, CNRS) in Paris, France, in 2010 (3 months).
I worked as an intern at UNICEF (Jharkhand, India), UNESCO (Paris, France) and Save the Children (Washington DC, USA). I have also taught German, French and English at schools (Collège Bé-Atikpa, Lomé, Togo; Deutsche Höhere Privatschule, Windhoek, Namibia; Gymnasium Steigerwald-Landschulheim Wiesentheid, Bavaria, Germany), at universities (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), and at cultural institutes (Goethe Institute, Windhoek, Namibia).
Principal Investigator of the Botswana project within the DFG Research Unit "Convergence on Dominant Language Constellations: World Englishes in their local multilingual ecologies" (CODILAC), Institute of English and American Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany
2022 – 2025
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department for Language, Literature and Culture, Faculty of Cultural Studies, TU Dortmund University, Germany
2018 – 2022
Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2018 – 2021) & Principal Investigator in the ELDP-funded Major Documentation Project "A multimedia corpus of siPhuthi, an endangered language of Lesotho: Its linguistic-cultural legacy and present-day use" (2021 – 2022), Department of African and Ethiopian Studies, Asia-Africa Institute, University of Hamburg, Germany
2016 – 2018
Lecturer in Linguistics and Languages of Africa and Asia, Department of Linguistics, SOAS University of London, UK
2013 – 2016
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Project Director of the N/uu Language Project, Centre for African Language Diversity (CALDi), University of Cape Town, South Africa
I am a Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
I was the Clayton B. Ofstad Writer-In-Residence at Truman State University, USA, in 2019 (2 months). I was a visiting scholar at the Centre for African Area Studies (CAAS) at Kyoto University, Japan, in 2015 (3 months) and at the Centre for Languages and Cultures of Sub-Saharan Africa (LLACAN, CNRS) in Paris, France, in 2010 (3 months).
I worked as an intern at UNICEF (Jharkhand, India), UNESCO (Paris, France) and Save the Children (Washington DC, USA). I have also taught German, French and English at schools (Collège Bé-Atikpa, Lomé, Togo; Deutsche Höhere Privatschule, Windhoek, Namibia; Gymnasium Steigerwald-Landschulheim Wiesentheid, Bavaria, Germany), at universities (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia), and at cultural institutes (Goethe Institute, Windhoek, Namibia).
Education
🎓 PhD in Linguistics, 2013
Georgetown University, USA
🎓 MSc in Linguistics, 2010
Georgetown University, USA
🎓 MA in Modern and Medieval Languages, 2010
Cambridge University, UK
🎓 BA (Honours) in Modern and Medieval Languages, 2007
Cambridge University, UK
Georgetown University, USA
🎓 MSc in Linguistics, 2010
Georgetown University, USA
🎓 MA in Modern and Medieval Languages, 2010
Cambridge University, UK
🎓 BA (Honours) in Modern and Medieval Languages, 2007
Cambridge University, UK