- E-Mail:
- katharina.elbwart@uni-paderborn.de
- Phone:
- +49 5251 60-2861
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- Office Address:
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Warburger Str. 100
33098 Paderborn - Room:
- J4.204
- Office hours:
Just send me an email katharina.elbwart@upb.de, if you wish to see me during my office hours.
I'd be happy to supervise your BA/MA thesis starting in Winter 2026/27. In TEFL, we moved to a general “exam week” for BA/MA defenses; in 2026, this will be from October 1-9, 2026. In 2027, the defenses will take place between February 9-12, 2027 - please plan accordingly!
About Katharina Elbwart
Katharina v. Elbwart is a post-doctoral researcher at Paderborn University, Germany. Her areas of interest include sociolinguistics and dialectology (in multilingual migrant communities) and language attitudes. More recently, her research has focused on the development of language teacher identity and language use in pre-service teacher education.
Curriculum Vitae
Since 11/2020: Akademische Rätin, Paderborn University (tenured)
Applied Linguistics/Teaching English as a Foreign Language
05/2022 - 07/2024: Maternity leave
10/2020: Qualified Teacher Status (2. Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Berufskollegs)
English & German
05/2019 - 10/2020: Teacher training (Vorbereitungsdienst LA BK), Hans-Böckler Berufskolleg Marl
09/2019: PhD, University of Duisburg-Essen
Linguistics
04/2014 - 05/2019: PhD candidate (wiss. MA), University of Duisburg-Essen
Linguistics and Varieties of English
2018: Visiting scholar, Fort Hays State University, KS, USA
Linguistics
08/2014: Master of Arts, Florida Atlantic University, FL, USA
Linguistics
2013 - 2014: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Florida Atlantic University, FL, USA
Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
06/2013: Teaching degree (1. Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Berufskollegs), University of Duisburg-Essen
English, German & Economics
Research
Research Interests
Research interests:
Language regard and perceptual dialectology, Varieties of English (focus on American English), Global Englishes Language Teaching, Educational linguistics, Language attitudes, Language teacher identity, Teaching Linguistics
For current research projects, please follow this link https://kw.uni-paderborn.de/institut-fuer-anglistik-und-amerikanistik/dr-katharina-v-elbwart
Teaching
Teaching Areas
Classes taught in (Applied) Linguistics:
Language and Power
Teaching Language - Global Englishes
Teaching language internationally
Vorbereitung/Begleitung Praxissemester BK/Gy/Ge
Diagnosis & Support: Focus on Multilingualism
Teaching English in elementary schools (intermediate/advanced)
Bilingualism in the US
Pidgin & Creole languages
Language in US Society
Varieties of English
Approaches to Language: Sociolinguistics & Education
Languages in Contact
Introduction to Linguistics
The English Lexicon
Morphology & Syntax
Contrastive Linguistics
Foreign language classes in English and German in various contexts (ESL/EFL/DaZ/DaF)