Stephanie Hackert

Stephanie Hackert, Professor of English Linguistics, University of Munich (LMU) Stephanie Hackert is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Munich (LMU). Her research interests center around pidgins and creoles, variationist sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, recent grammatical change, and historical discourse analysis. Her publications include monographs on urban Bahamian Creole English (Benjamins, 2004) and the history of the English native speaker (de Gruyter, 2012). Together with her research team and colleagues at the University of the Bahamas, she has been compiling the Bahamian subcomponent of the International Corpus of English. She also edits the Benjamins book series Varieties of English Around the World and is currently heading a project on Australian Aboriginal English funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).