Dr Kristine Horner
Reader in Luxembourg Studies and Multilingualism
email : k.horner@sheffield.ac.uk
I received my PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a dissertation focused on language politics in contemporary Luxembourg. I lectured at the Université du Luxembourg/ Centre Universitaire de Luxembourg (1998-2006) and the University of Leeds (2007-2010) before taking up my current post at the University of Sheffield, which is generously funded by the government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
Luxembourg Studies constitutes the focus of my research and, to a large extent, my teaching too. Although the majority of my research focuses on language politics and language ideologies in Luxembourg, I also began researching Luxembourgish cultural heritage in the Upper Midwestern region of the US while a visiting scholar at the Max Kade Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006. Multilingualism and migration are key threads that run through most of my academic work.
Teaching Responsibilities
My main teaching areas in the Department and the School are in the field of Luxembourg Studies and, more broadly, in sociolinguistics and multilingualism.
I co-ordinate the Luxembourg Studies programmes and teach the following modules:
- GER234 Germanic Languages in Social Context
- GER235/323 Introduction to Luxembourgish Language and Culture
- GER324 Advanced Luxembourgish Language and Culture
- MDL301 Social Approaches to Multilingualism
I also contribute to the following modules:
- MDL104 Introductory Linguistics for Modern Languages
- GER105/6 Text and Context
- FRE 107/8 French Studies I&II
- MDL 6001 Research Methods in Modern Languages
Research Interests
My current research is concentrated in the following areas and I welcome expressions of interest from individuals wishing to pursue a MA or PhD in any of these fields:
- Language politics, policy and planning
- Language ideologies and metalanguage
- Discourse, representation and ideology
- Social approaches to multilingualism
- Migration, transnationalism and citizenship
- Cultural heritage studies
Presently, I am supervising Joanna Kremer's PhD research on language, identity and citizenship in contemporary Luxembourg.
I am director of the Centre for Luxembourg Studies at the University of Sheffield (founded by Professor Gerald Newton in 1995), co-ordinator of the Worldwide Universities Network on Germanic Languages and Migration (GLaM) and a member of the following professional associations:
- American Anthropological Association (AAA)
- British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
- Forum for Germanic Language Studies (FGLS)
- Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN)
- International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA)
- International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
Other External Activities
- Advisory board member of H-Transnational German Studies
- Member of the AHRC Peer Review College (2012-2015)
- Editorial board member of the journal Discourse, Context and Media
- Expert panel member of the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg
- Peer reviewer for Language Policy, Current Issues in Language Planning and Journal of Germanic Linguistics