For an updated version of my CV, please visit my personal website at www.stephaniehorch.de.

EDUCATION

January 2016
submission of PhD thesis "Conversion in Asian Englishes. A usage-based account of the emergence of new local norms." (defended on April 6, 2016)

2013 - 2016
PhD student at Research Training Group "Frequency Effects in Language"
University of Freiburg, Germany

2007 - 2013
Studies: English Linguistics (Major), English Literature, Spanish
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
MA thesis: "Doing disagreement - Evidence from the British National Corpus"

2007 - 2012
Studies: Education for Secondary Schools, English, Spanish
Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

2009 - 2010
Studies at University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada


POSITIONS

currently on parental leave

2014 - 2016
Academic staff at Research Training Group "Frequency Effects in Language"
University of Freiburg, Germany

2014 - 2015
Adjunct lecturer at English Seminar at Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany
Doing Linguistics (tutorial accompanying introductory lecture to English linguistics)

2008 - 2012
Teaching Assistant at Institutes for English and Romance Philology at Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Tutorials for introductory courses for English, Spanish, Romance Linguistics

2009 - 2010
Teaching Assistant Department for Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada,
Oral communication courses for 3rd year German


PUBLICATIONS

Horch, S. fc. Conversion in Asian Englishes. A usage-based account of the emergence of new local norms. Freiburg. [=PhD thesis]

Horch, S. 2016. "Innovative conversions in South-East Asian Englishes: Reassessing ESL status." International Journal of Learner Corpus Research 2(2): 277-299. [= special issue on innovations in non-native Englishes]
final draft available on Academia


PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS

"A Construction Grammar approach to frequency effects in conversion in Asian Englishes."
Workshop Frequency effects in Construction Grammar. University of Freiburg. October 23, 2015.

"Charting conversion in Asian Englishes with GloWbE."
Conference From data to evidence. Big Data, Rich Data, Uncharted Data in Helsinki, Finland. October 19-22, 2015.

"A Construction Grammar account of conversion in Asian Englishes."
Workshop Bridiging a gap with Construction Grammar. University of Freiburg. July 6, 2015.

"Conversion in Asian Englishes: institutionalization moderates transfer."
Conference Changing English: Integrating cognitive, social & typological perspectives in Helsinki, Finland. June 8-10, 2015.

"Conversion in Asian Englishes: Are Singapore English and Hong Kong English really ESL varieties?"
ICAME 36 in Trier, Germany. May 27-31, 2015.

"Conversion in Asian Englishes: substratum vs institutionalization."
20th Conference of IAWE in Delhi, India. Dec 18-20, 2014. (winner of the Braj B. Kachru Award)

"Conversion in Asian Englishes: Frequency effects in language contact."
Workshop Frequency effects in language contact. University of Freiburg. June 30, 2014.


WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

"Bridging a Gap with Construction Grammar: Second Language Acquisition and Second Language Varieties of English"
July 6 - July 7, 2015
University of Freiburg
co-organization with Annette Fahrner, Boniface Nkombong
keynote addresses: Thomas Hoffmann, Ute Römer

"Frequency effects in language contact: Asian Englishes"
June 30 - July 1, 2014
University of Freiburg
co-organization with Laura Terassa, Claudia Winkle
keynote addresses: Bao Zhiming, Claudia Lange


TEACHING

University of Freiburg
- Doing Linguistics

University of Munich
- Tutorial accompanying Introduction to English Linguistics
- Tutorial accompanying Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
- Tutorial accompanying Introduction to Romance Linguistics

University of Alberta
- Teaching assistant for German 303, 304, 402
- Oral communication classes for German 303, 304