Julian Mader

Research interests:

•  language variation and change
•  corpus linguistics
•  historical morphosyntax
•  historical orthography
•  Quaker Plain Speech

Further activities:

Conference co-organiser:

• XXIII. Studientag Englisches Mittelalter, 2023
• 10th Conference of the Historical Sociolinguistics Networks (Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics), 2021

Editorial assistant:

• Advances in Historical Linguistics (AHL)
• Anglia: Journal of English Philology

Webmaster:

• Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN)

Academic CV:

Since October 2023: junior lecturer in English linguistics and medieval literature, LMU Munich (chair Prof. Ursula Lenker)

2023–2024: junior lecturer in English linguistics, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (chair Prof. Thomas Hoffmann)

2020–2023: junior lecturer in English linguistics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (junior research group “Flexible Writers in Language History” (Dr. Markus Schiegg), chair Prof. Mechthild Habermann)

2020: Lehrbeauftragter in English linguistics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (Prof. Judith Huber)

2014–2020: studied English linguistics and literature, physics, and pedagogy at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• State Examination (1. Staatsexamen für das Lehramt an Gymnasien)
• Master of Education (M.Ed.)

 Classes taught:

•  Exploring Linguistic Variation in England: Past and Present
•  Introduction to Linguistics
•  Introduction to Linguistics: English phonetics and phonology
•  Introduction to Middle English
•  Introduction to Old English
•  Lektüre historischer Handschriften

•  The Language of Chaucer: Sex and Practical Jokes in the Miller’s Tale

Publications:

• submitted. Plain speech and the Quaker pronoun of address in nineteenth-century England. In Samantha M. Litty & Nils Langer (eds.), Historical interplays between language ideology, language policy, and language practices [Historical sociolinguistics. Studies on language and society in the past]. Peter Lang.

• accepted. [with Christine Elsweiler and Judith Huber]. The role of morphosyntactic simplification and dialect contact in the loss of thou V-st. English Language and Linguistics.

Conference papers:

•  “The biggest thief + lier that walked + wont: Restrictive subject relativisation with personal heads in 19th and early 20th-century English.” 15th Summer School in Historical Sociolinguistics (Pecha Kucha), Amrum, 26 July 2023.

•  “Long-s in English personal letters from the 19th and early 20th centuries.” 12th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference (HiSoN 2023), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 1 June 2023.

•  “Variation and change in the Quaker 2nd-person pronoun (1850–1900).” 11th Historical Sociolinguistics Network Conference (HiSoN 2022), Universidad de Murcia, 3 June 2022.

•  “‘Quaker Speak’ in 19th-century patient letters from the York Retreat.” NARNiHS Research Incubator at KFLC, University of Kentucky, 22 April 2022.

•  “Thou promised it to me one 1st day: Plain speech in 19th-century Quaker correspondence.” Atelier des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Dialekte und Sprach- variation, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 28 January 2022.

•  [with Christine Elsweiler and Judith Huber] “The role of dialect contact in the loss of thou V-st.” ISLE 6, University of Eastern Finland, 4 June 2021.

•  “The role of inflexional economy in the loss of thou V-st.” PGR/ECR Virtual Colloquium in Germanic Linguistics, University of Sheffield, 12 January 2021.

•  “Loss of THOU in Standard English: Evidence from Early English correspondence.” Atelier des Interdisziplinären Zentrums für Dialekte und Sprachvariation, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1 February 2019.