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About me:

I am a sociolinguist who works on topics related to language contact and change through both historical and contemporary perspectives. I am especially interested in sociophonetics, phonology, heritage languages and their communities, language attitudes and ideologies, and multilingual identity.

To date, I have worked primarily 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 am eager to broaden my work to include linguistic phenomena in other language contact settings.

Last academic year (2025-2026), I was Visiting Associate Professor in the English section of the Department of Education and Sports Science at the University of Stavanger. I taught topics in English linguistics and English didactics (methods, language, literature, culture). I also taught a selection of writing and research workshops for the MA in English Teacher Education and advised MA students in linguistics topics for the program.

In 2025, I completed my PhD in Scandinavian Studies 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 currently serve on the Steering Group for NARNiHS (North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics) and am an external collaborator with FLUENT (Flerspråklig utvikling og endring i nyere tid, English: Multilingual development and change in society today), a research group at the University of Stavanger.