Teaching
At the University of Bern's English Department I teach four recurring courses...
- "Introduction to Language and Linguistics", BA lecture
- "Analysing Language", BA lecture, with Prof. Dave Britain, Prof. Crispin Thurlow, Dr Kellie Gonçalves and Dr Gwynne Mapes
- A BA/MA seminar fieldwork excursion every Autumn term to an Anglophone island e.g. the Isle of Man (Autumn 2022), Isle of Skye (Autumn 2023)
- A BA/MA seminar every Spring term, analysing the speech data from the previous term's fieldwork trip
Aside from those, I also teach around three courses every semester. These have included...
- "Introduction to Forensic Linguistics", BA&MA Lecture, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2023/2025)
- "The Sociolinguistic Canon", BA Seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2025 )
- "Brief Encounter: Short to Mid-term Dialect Contact" , MA Seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2025)
- "Language across the Lifespan", MA Seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2024)
- "Language on Love Island", BA Seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2024)
- "Sound Revolution: Phonetic Variation in World Englishes", BA seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2023)
- "Introduction to Forensic Linguistics", BA/MA lecture, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2023)
- "Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin", MA seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Autumn 2023)
- "Ear Training", BA workshop, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2022)
- "Antipodean Englishes", BA/MA lecture, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2022)
- "On the Waterfront: Literary and Linguistic Perspectives", BA/MA lecture, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2022)
- "Forensic Phonetics", MA seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2022)
- "The Sociolinguistics of Islands", BA seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2022; Spring 2017)
- "Harvesting Language in the Field: Methodologies in Sociolinguistic Data Collection", MA seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Autumn 2021)
- "Applied Linguistics and Migration", BA seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2021)
- "African American English: Variation and Ideology", BA seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2021)
- "Dialects on Screen", BA seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2020)
- "Acoustic Sociophonetics", BA seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Autumn 2020)
- "Doing Dialect Data Analysis", BA seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Autumn 2020)
- "Multilingualism and the Law", BA seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Autumn 2019)
- "Modern English Grammar in Action", BA seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Autumn 2018)
- "Dialect Contact in North American and Australian English", BA seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Autumn 2017)
- "Language and the Law", BA seminar, English Department, University of Bern (Spring 2016)
I've also taught courses in other departments at the University of Bern and at external institutions
- "Forensic Phonetics", BA/MA seminar, Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, University of Bern (Autumn 2022)
- "Language Variation and Identity", seminar, Pädagogische Hochschule Luzern (Autumn 2020 and 2022)