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About me:

This academic year (2025-2026), I am a visiting associate professor (førsteamanuensis, vikariat) in the English section of the Department of Education and Sports Science at the University of Stavanger. I am teaching topics in English linguistics and English didactics (methods, language, literature, culture).

Earlier this year, I completed my PhD in Scandinavian Studies (Sociolinguistics) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. My dissertation, Sociolinguistic developments in the Norwegian-American Midwest: Norwegian’s post-shift presence, examines Norwegian-influenced contact phenomena in western Wisconsin English, the trajectory of those features over time, and the relationship of those features to contemporary regional and heritage identity.

I am broadly interested in language contact and change, and a wide range of historical and contemporary sociolinguistic topics. To date, I have worked on varieties of English in regions settled by Scandinavian immigrants as well as Norwegian and Icelandic, especially within their corresponding heritage language communities in North America.

I also serve on the Steering Group for NARNiHS (North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics) and am a core group member of FLUENT (Flerspråklig utvikling og endring i nyere tid, English: Multilingual development and change in society today), a research group at the University of Stavanger.