Dr. Lucia Siebers
Contact
Dr. Lucia Siebers
Department of Anglophone Studies
Universitätsstr. 12
45141 Essen
Phone: +49 201 183 3460
Office: R12 S04 H94
E-mail: lucia.siebers@uni-due.de
Research interests
- (Historical) Sociolinguistics
- Varieties of English (esp. Earlier African American English and Black South African English)
- Language variation and change
- Morphosyntax
- Corpus Linguistics
- Digital Humanities
Education
Work on post-doctoral thesis "You must excews my Bad writen". A linguistic analysis of early African American letters
2007 PhD in English Linguistics at the University of Duisburg-Essen with a thesis on "Morphosyntax in Black South African English: A sociolinguistic analysis of Xhosa English"
2000 First State Exam, German teacher training qualification in English, History and Educational Science, University of Essen
Employment
| since April 2020 | Senior Lecturer in English linguistics (Studienrätin im Hochschuldienst), Department of Anglophone Studies | ||||||
| 2019-2020 | Stand-in Professor for Varieties of English, Department of British Studies, University of Leipzig | ||||||
| 2010-2019 |
Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin a.Z.) in English Linguistics, University of Regensburg
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| 2007-2010 | Principal investigator and coordinator of the DFG-funded project "African American letters from the nineteenth century", (project director: Prof. Dr. Edgar W. Schneider), University of Regensburg | ||||||
| 2006-2010 | Lecturer in English Linguistics, University of Regensburg | ||||||
| 2002-2006 | Research assistant and part-time lecturer in English Linguistics, University of Duisburg-Essen | ||||||
| 2001-2002 | Junior Lecturer in the School of Languages at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa |
Recent publications
2019. (with Sandra Jansen), eds. Processes of Change. Studies in Late Modern and Present-day English. Amsterdam: Benjamins. (Studies in Language Variation)
2019. "Earlier African American English in nineteenth-century Liberia: Processes of change in a transported dialect". In Sandra Jansen and Lucia Siebers, eds. Processes of Change. Studies in Late Modern and Present-day English. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 139-156.
2019. "’This is all answer soon’: African American vernacular letters from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries". In Raymond Hickey, ed. Keeping in Touch. Emigrant Letters across the English-Speaking World. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 213-237. (Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics)
Teaching
Summer term 2020
- Postcolonial varieties: English in Africa and Asia
- Historical Sociolinguistics
- Introduction to Linguistics I
- Language variation and change in North American English
- Phonetics and Phonology