Vroni Zieglmeier
Anglistisches Seminar/Department of English
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Kettengasse 12, Room 220
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
+49 (6221) 542 813
vroni.zieglmeier@as.uni-heidelberg.de
Sprechstunde: Wednesdays, 10.30-11.30am. Register via email.
Research interests
- Language, Gender and Sexuality
- Multilingualism and Language Contact
- English in Germany
- Variationist Sociolinguistics
- Queer Theory
- Linguistic Landscapes
Publications
- Gaston, Bruce; Wigg-Stevenson, Natalie; Vorbeck, Cara; Yim, Oriana; Zieglmeier, Veronika: Showcasing English studies in and from Heidelberg : a statement from the editorial team / Bruce Gaston, Natalie Stevenson, Cara Vorbeck, Oriana Yim, Vroni Zieglmeier, 2025-12-19. - 3 S.
In: Heidelberg journal of English studies, ISSN 3054-1204. 1(2025), Seite 1-3
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.82132/hjes.2025.1.114332
- Zieglmeier, Vroni: “Queer English” and “Heteronormative German”: Negotiating Linguistic Repertoires and Identity in a Queer Activist Context in Berlin / Vroni Zieglmeier, 2024.
In: Reconceptualizing Language Norms in Multilingual Contexts, ISBN13: 9781668487617.
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-8761-7.ch001
Invited Talks
2026
'Queer English' in Germany: Competing indexicalities at the online/offline nexus. HS The Queer Internet (Prof. Heyd), Universität Heidelberg, 28.04.2026.
Gender und Sexualität als Variablen in der Soziolinguistik: 'Ungehorsam' in Fragebogenantworten, ethnographischer Einblick und queere Einsprüche. Forschungskolloquium Variationslinguistik (Prof. Zimmer), Technische Universität Dortmund, 01.06.2026.
[Title tbd]. Linguistic Teatime, Institut für Anglistik, Freie Universität Berlin, 02.12.2026.
2025
"Sapphics, Dykes*, FLINTA*: Gender, Sexuality, and English vs. German in lesbian-queer identity terms". Queer Week (Prof. Kranich), Universität Bonn, 02.06.2025.
"Queer English in Berlin: Globalization and (Re-)Localization". Queer(ing) Linguistics: Anglistik und Germanistik im Dialog (Prof. Buchstaller/Prof. Ziegler), Universität Duisburg-Essen, 08.01.2025.
2024
"Is English a 'queer' language? A case study of L1 German speakers in Berlin". Seminartag Queerlinguistik (Dr. Lind), Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder, 29.11.2024.
"What makes a language a 'queer' language? English and German in the narratives of L1 German speakers". Invited guest talk in the series Queer(ing) Linguistics: Anglistik und Germanistik im Dialog(Prof. Buchstaller/Prof. Ziegler), Universität Duisburg-Essen, 19.06.2024.
Conferences
2026
Zieglmeier, V. Learn from lesbians: Problematizing gender, sexuality, and identity as analytical categories for variationist research. ICLaVE 13, Université de Lausanne, 02.07.2026.
Zieglmeier, V. Queer Theory, Sociolinguistics, and the Trouble with Categories: Reading Butler as a Lesbian Theorist. Anglistiktag 2026, Panel (Doing) Gender and Queer Studies as a Standard of Anglophone Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, 13-16.09.2026.
2025
Zieglmeier, V. "'FLINTA Pride': Multilingual negotiations of queer identity at the global/local nexus", Diversity - Dynamics - Hybridity: Linguistic Identities in Multilingual Contexts, Universität Heidelberg, 20.03.2025.
2024
Zieglmeier, V. Pitch variation in lesbian-queer speakers of German, Lavender Languages and Linguistics 30, University of Brighton, 23.08.2024.
Zieglmeier, V., Lehleiter, P., Hundelt, J. & Paetsch, J. 'Sashay, tack och hej!' (Sashay, thanks and bye). Integration of catchphrases in the European spin-offs of RuPaul’s Drag Race, Lavender Languages and Linguistics 30, University of Brighton, 23.08.2024.
Zieglmeier, V. Is English a 'queer' language? The ideological opposition of English and German in the narratives of queer L1 German speakers in Berlin. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft Jahrestagung, AG 11: Evaluating register(s), Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 28.02.2024.
2023
Zieglmeier, V., Anam, J., & Hundelt, J. The Linguistic Landscapes of Political Mobilization in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Linguistic Landscapes Workshop 14, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, 07.09.2023.
Haggarty, N. & Zieglmeier, V. Word-Final Obstruent-Liquid-Schwa-Sequence Simplification in an 'Elite' Variety of Montreal French, Change and Variation in Canada/Changement et Variation au Canada, University of Toronto Mississauga, 04.06.2023.
2022
Zieglmeier, V. Indexical Functions of English in a Queer Community of Practice in Berlin, Lavender Languages & Linguistics 28, Università degli Studi di Catania, Italy, 24.05.2022.
Teaching
Fall/Winter 2026/27
PS I Morphology
PS II Language, Gender and Sexuality (with Theresa Heyd)
Lowkey Linguistics (with Theresa Heyd)
Linguistics research colloquium Heyd/Landert (coordination)
Spring/Summer 2026
PS I Discourse Analysis
Linguistics research colloquium Heyd/Landert (coordination)
Fall/Winter 2025/26
PS I Semiotics: Language as a Sign System
Heidelberg Gender Lectures (Lecture Series, co-organized with Prof. Heyd)
Spring/Summer 2025
PS I Semiotics: Language as a Sign System
Fall/Winter 2024/25
PS I Loans and Borrowings: English Words in and from Other Languages.
Professional memberships
- Netzwerk Gender & Queer Studies (Universität Heidelberg)
- DFG-Netzwerk Queerlinguistik (Sprecher*innen: Prof. Dr. Lars Sörries-Vorberger, Universität Hamburg & Prof. Dr. Miriam Lind, Europa-Universität Viadrina)
- Diversität in der Linguistik e.V. - Association for Diversity in Linguistics (div-ling)
- Association of Nonbinary and Trans Language Researchers (ANTLR)