EDUCATION:

2018: Practical teacher qualification (2. Staatsexamen), Baden-Wuerttemberg
2016: PhD in English Linguistics, University of Freiburg
2012: University degree in teaching at primary schools (1. Staatsexamen), University of Bamberg


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2019: Maternity leave
2017‒19: Teacher in Baden-Wuerttemberg
2015‒17: Research assistant and lecturer, English Department, University of Freiburg
2012‒15: PhD student, research training group GRK DFG 1624 "Frequency Effects in Language", University of Freiburg
2013: Lecturer, Chair of English Linguistics, University of Bamberg
2010-12: Student researcher (English Linguistics, Psychology), University of Bamberg


PUBLICATIONS:

Contribution to
Haas, Stefanie and René Torkler (ed.). Forthcoming. Abenteuer Ethik Realschule Bayern, Bd. 8. Bamberg: C.C. Buchner. (I am the author of the English-language pages.)

Contribution to
Torkler, René (ed.). 2019. Abenteuer Ethik Realschule Bayern, Bd. 7. Bamberg: C.C. Buchner. (I am the author of the English-language pages.)

Kasten, Erich, Katja Roller and Joshua Wilbur (eds.). 2017. Oral History Meets Linguistics. Fürstenberg/Havel: Verlag der Kulturstiftung Sibirien.

Roller, Katja. 2017. "On Pits, Progressives and Probabilities of Use: Memories from Wales and Their Implications for Corpus-linguistic (and Historical) Research." In: Erich Kasten, Katja Roller and Joshua Wilbur (eds.). Oral History Meets Linguistics. Fürstenberg/Havel: Verlag der Kulturstiftung Sibirien. 147‒158.

Roller, Katja. 2016. Salience in Welsh English Grammar: A Usage-based Approach. Freiburg: NIHIN Studies.

Roller, Katja. 2015. "Towards the 'Oral' in Oral History: Using Historical Narratives in Linguistics." In: Oral History 43:1, 73‒84.


TALKS (selection):

2016: "Salience in Welsh English Grammar: On Usage Frequencies and Social Factors", Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, Universidad de Murcia

2015: "A Frequency-based Approach to Salience in Dialect Grammar: The Case of Welsh English", ICAME 36, University of Trier -- Winner of the John Sinclair Bursary for the best presentation by a PhD student

2015 (with Bernd Kortmann): "From Dialect Corpus to Interactive Open-access Database: FRED Online", international FRIAS & GRK 1624 workshop "Oral History Meets Linguistics", University of Freiburg

2014: "Welsh That Is: On the Relation between Salience and Frequency in Welsh English Grammar", 5th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (UK-CLC5), Lancaster University


TEACHING:

2016: Corpus Linguistics: Focus on the British Isles
2016: Second Language Acquisition
2015/16: The Sociolinguistics of English in the British Isles
2015, 2016: Doing Linguistics
2014: Wales, Ireland and Scotland: English and the Celtic Languages
2013: Welsh English
2011, 2012: Tutorial for the First State Examination in Psychology for Students of Teaching

In 2016, Bernd Kortmann, Marten Juskan and me won the Instructional Development Award (70,000€) for "FREDDIE (FReiburg English Dialect Database for Instruction and E-learning) – A multimedia online platform for research-based teaching and learning". More information on FREDDIE can be found here: https://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/seminar/abteilungen/sprachwissenschaft/ls_kortmann/FREDDIE