Date of birth: 24/04/1989

Education

• 10/2015  PhD Researcher Universiteit Gent “Continuity or Change – The post–cyclic developmen of preverbal ne  in Continental West Germanic” (BOF Scholarship)
• 12/2014 – 09/2015 PhD Researcher Friedrich–Schiller–University Jena (FSU) “Der Klagspiegel in Handschrift  und Druck – Studien zum Schreibsprachwandel im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert” (Konrad–Adenauer–Scholarship)
• 2008 – 2014 Friedrich–Schiller–University Jena: German and English Studies (First State Examination)
• 07/2005 – 07/2006 Rotary Exchange Year in Brazil, Aracatuba–SP
• 07/1996 – 07/2008 Geschwister–Scholl Gymnasium, Sondershausen

Professional Experience

• 03/2015 – 09/2015 Coordinator “Digital Humanities Network Jena”
• 04/2014 – 09/2015 FSU Jena – Assistant Lecturer
• 04/2014 – 02/2015 FSU Jena – Student Coordinator and Assistant at the Sports Management Department
• 04/2014 – 07/2014 Internship Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science – project: „Neuronal Mechanisms of Word Learning”
• 10/2009 – 03/2014 FSU Jena – Student assistant and tutor in the History of the German Language Department

Teaching Experience

• 01 – 05/2015 Gent University: “Historische Entwicklung des Deutschen”
• 09/2015 Akaki Tsereteli State University, Georgia: “Vom Minnesang bis Luther – Einführung in die Sprachgeschichte des Deutschen” (co-taught with Barbara Aehnlich)
• 04/2014 – 09/2015 FSU Jena – Bachelor Seminars: „Introduction to Historical Linguistics” “Language Acquisition”, “English Grammar”

Attended Summer Schools and Courses

• 01 – 04/2016 Python for Humanities
• 07/2014 Joint Culture & Technology and CLARIN–D Summer School Digital Humanities & Language Resources, Leipzig
• 08/2013 DGfS Summer School Language Development: Evolution, Change, Acquisition, Berlin

Talks:

• 12/04/2016 Talk at LingForum, Gent: "From Negator to Subordinator. Functional change of MLG ne"
• 07/04/2016 Talk at Junius Symposium, Leiden: "New Insights into the Preservation and Decline of preverbal ne in Middle Low German"
• 18/07/2015 „Werkzeuge zur Annotation historischer Sprachstufen“ 3. Clarin–D Fach–AG, Leipzig
• 25/02/2015 Poster Presentaion DHd-Conference, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz: Annotation nicht-standardisierter Sprachstufen. Sprachwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Klagspiegel Conrad Heydens (1436) und zum Laienspiegel Ulrich Tenglers (1509). (with Barbara Aehnlich)
• 01/10/2014 Talk at Namen und Kulturlandschaften, Jena: "Bergbaunamen rund um den Kyffhäuser"

Publications

• Witzenhausen, Elisabeth: Bergbaunamen im südlichen Kyffhäusergebiet (2015). In: Namen und Kulturlandschaften. Eds. Barbara Aehnlich, Eckhard Meineke, Leipzig. 349–360.
• Aehnlich, Barbara u. Witzenhausen, Elisabeth (2015): Individualbenennungen von Haustieren durch Kinder und Jugendliche. In: Tiernamen. Bd. 1. Eds. Antje Dammel, Damaris Nübling u. Mirjam Schmuck. Heidelberg: Winter. 191–218.

Please find my full research profile here.