Primary Research Interests: 
  • Morphology & Syntax
  • Germanic Linguistics
  • Bi/Multilingualism ​
  • Heritage linguistics
  • Morphological & lexical processing
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Me in a nutshell:
I am a Professor of German & Linguistics in the Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures (GSLL) and the Program in Linguistics at The Pennsylvania State University. I am a member of the Center for Language Science at Penn State,  and a PIRE faculty member. I am currently the Director for the Linguistics Program and the Associate Director for the Center for Language Science here at Penn State. I am director of the Morphology Circle research group here at Penn State and am co-director of the Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies at Penn State. ​ From 2021-2027 I am a Visiting Professor of Linguistics at the University of Greenwich and am affiliated with the Centre for Research in Language and Heritage (CREL).  I will be a Senior Research Fellow at the Research Center at the Deutscher Sprachatlas at Philipps-Universität in Marburg, Germany in the Spring 2025 semester.

Service to the profession:
I am also series editor of the book series Studies in Germanic Linguistics (John Benjamins) and the series Open Germanic Linguistics (Language Science Press),  editor of the journal Continua (Penn State & University of Stavanger -- OA), editor of the proceedings of WILA (Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas) (Bergen Language & Linguistics Studies), am an Associate Editor for the journal Language (Linguistics Society of America), a member of the editorial board for the book series Studies in Bilingualism (John Benjamins), the journal Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism (John Benjamins), the journal Evolutionary Linguistic Theory (John Benjamins), the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (Cambridge University Press), the journal Heritage Language Journal (Brill), the Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, the book series Current Issues in Bilingualism (Language Science Press), and the Yearbook of German-American Studies. From 2023-2026 I am serving as Vice President of the Society for Germanic Linguistics. ​I will serve on the advisory board for Norchron (Norwegian diachronic corpus 200-1814) from 2025-2029.