Miriam Neuhausen
Contact
Anglistisches Seminar/Department of English
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Kettengasse 12, Room 220
69117 Heidelberg
Germany
+49 (6221) 542 813
miriam.neuhausen@as.uni-heidelberg.de
Sprechstunde: ERASMUS students and all other students: Please register via HeiCo or the Notfallsprechstunde, I cannot register you manually and I do not reserve spots for individual students.
Office hour: Friday, 4:00 pm-5:00 pm. Please register via email.
Research Interests
- Sociocultural linguistics
- Sociophonetics
- Language variation and change
- Language and identity
- Language, gender and sexuality
- Embodiment
- Language contact
- Lesser-studied languages and communities
- Language and social injustice
Publications
- Bohmann, Axel; Müller, Julia; Honkanen, Mirka; Neuhausen, Miriam: Linguistic data science and the English passive : modelling diachronic developments and regional variation / Axel Bohrmann, Julia Müller, Mirka Hokanen and Miriam Neuhausen. - Erstausgabe. -
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. - 264 Seiten : Ilustrationen, ISBN 9781350386549 - Bohmann, Axel; Müller, Julia; Honkanen, Mirka; Neuhausen, Miriam: Linguistic data science and the English passive : modelling diachronic developments and regional variation / Axel Bohrmann, Julia Müller, Mirka Hokanen and Miriam Neuhausen. -
London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025. - 1 Online-Ressource (288 Seiten) : Ilustrationen, ISBN 9781350386556
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.5040/9781350386570 - Neuhausen, Miriam: Identifying a “new” social variable : sociospatial distance from the Old Order Mennonites / Miriam Neuhausen, 2025-11-14. - 10 S. : 2 Illustrationen (farbig)
In: University of Pennsylvania working papers in linguistics, ISSN 1524-9549. 31(2025), 2, Seite 146-155
Online-Ressource - Neuhausen, Miriam; Adnan, Muhadj: Fieldwork challenges in diaspora communities : Arabic speakers in Germany and Pennsylvania German speakers in Canada / Miriam Neuhausen, University of Heidelberg, Muhadj Adnan, University of Bayreuth, 2024. - 41 S.
In: Linguistics in Amsterdam. 15(2024), 1, Seite 124-164
Online-Ressource - Neuhausen, Miriam: Language change and stance in a remote Mennonite community in Canada / Miriam Neuhausen, University of Freiburg, 2024. - 29 S.
In: Pfadenhauer, Katrin; Sofia, Rüdiger; Valentina, Serreli (Hrsg.): Global and local perspectives on language contact.
(Contact and multilingualism ; 7) (2024), Seite 99-127 - Neuhausen, Miriam: Language change and stance in a remote Mennonite community in Canada / Miriam Neuhausen, University of Freiburg, 2024. - 30 S.
In: Pfadenhauer, Katrin (Hrsg.): Global and local perspectives on language contact.
(Contact and Multilingualism ; 7) (2024), Seite 99-128
Online-Ressource - Bohmann, Axel; Müller, Julia; Honkanen, Mirka; Neuhausen, Miriam: A large-scale diachronic analysis of the English passive alternation / Axel Bohmann, Julia Müller, Mirka Honkanen, Miriam Neuhausen, 2023. - 25 S.
In: Busse, Beatrix; Dumrukcic, Nina; Kleiber, Ingo (Hrsg.): Language and linguistics in a complex world.
(Diskursmuster ; Volume 32) (2023), Seite 31-55
Online-Ressource, DOI: 10.1515/9783111017433-003 - Neuhausen, Miriam: Understanding, collecting, and presenting data in New Englishes research : insights from ethnographic fieldwork in an Old Order Mennonite community / Miriam Neuhausen, University of Freiburg, 2023. - 21 S.
In: Wilson, Guyanne; Westphal, Michael (Hrsg.): New englishes, new methods.
(Varieties of English around the world ; volume G68) (2023), Seite 222-242
Online-Ressource
Academic Background
2025 - PhD in English Linguistics, University of Freiburg
2020 - MA in English Linguistics, University of Freiburg
2018-2019 - Visiting Scholar, University of Toronto
2016 - BA in English Studies/Romance studies, Goethe University Frankfurt
2015-2016 - International student, University of Southampton
Employment
since 2025 - Assistant professor, University of Heidelberg
2024-2025 - Research associate, University of Heidelberg
2022-2024 - Administrative worker in Gender, Diversity, and Academic Personnel Development, University of Freiburg
2021-2022 - Research associate, University of Freiburg
2021 - Co-organiser of the conference "Englische Sprachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik im Dialog", University of Freiburg
2021 - Co-organiser of the 43rd Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society,
Hermann Paul School of Linguistics/University of Freiburg
2017-2021 - Research assistant & tutor, University of Freiburg
Outreach
- Organization and co-ordination of the Marsilius whine box event (2026)
- Gender science slam Heidelberg (2025)
- LGBTQ+ STEM/Soapbox Berlin "Queer and religious? Performing conflicting identities through language" (2024)
- Contribution on Pennsylvania German at the exhibition "Zur Sprache kommen: Visualising research on endangered languages" at Uniseum Freiburg (2024)
- Talk at the Pint of Science Freiburg "Was wir von Old Order Mennonites über Sprache und Identität lernen können" (2022)
- Organisation of the festival Pint of Science Freiburg (2022)
- Invited speaker at Radio France Bleu Elsass (2021)
- Science Slam Freiburg (2021)
- Blog post "Pennsylvania German and the Old Order Mennonites in southern Ontario", Canadian Language Museum (2020)
- Representation of the Freiburg English linguistics department, Freiburger Wissenschaftsmarkt (2017)
Teaching
Introduction to linguistics
- Doing linguistics
- Linguistic variation
- Sociophonetics I
- Syntax
Sociolinguistics
- Queer linguistics
- Third Wave sociolinguistics: language variation in Canada and the US
- Heritage languages and diaspora in the Americas
Applied linguistics
- Forensic linguistics
Methods
- Sociophonetics II
- Hands-on sociophonetics
- Workshop: Introduction to statistics and data visualisation
Working groups
- Linguistik Heidelberg Netzwerk
- Sociophonetics online group
- Language shift online group
- Language, gender, and embodiment reading group
Please let me know if you would like to know more about or participate in any of these groups.