Curriculum Vitae Jennifer Smith 2014-2015 Received funding from the Land Baden-Württemberg for a two-semester cooperative teaching project as part of the ‘Willkommen in der Wissenschaft’ programme 2013 PhD Candidate and Research Assistant at the Chair of Synchronic and Diachronic Linguistics Prof. Dr. Beatrix Busse English Department, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Dissertation project ‘Discursive Perceptions of Urbanity’ 2013 – Member of the Heidelberg Graduate School For Humanities and Social Sciences (HGGS) 2013 1. Staatsexamen ‘Lehramt an Gymnasien’, English and German Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2013 Student Research Assistant at the Chair of Synchronic and Diachronic Linguistics Prof. Dr. Beatrix Busse English Department, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2009-2010 & 2011-2013 Student Research Assistant at the Chair of English Literature Prof. Dr. Vera Nünning English Department, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg 2010-2011 Honorary Language Assistant University of Kent, Canterbury (UK) 2010-2011 M.A. in Comparative Literature (with distinction) University of Kent, Canterbury (UK) 2006-2013 ‛Lehramt an Gymnasien’ English and German Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and Albrecht-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg 2006 Abitur 1 Kurpfalz Gymnasium Schriesheim, Baden Württemberg Teaching WS 2013/2014 ‘Discourse Analysis’ SS 2014 ‘An Introduction to the History of English’ SS 2014 ‘Language and Space’ WS 2014/2015 ‘An Introduction to the History of English’ WS 2014/2015 ‘Literary and Linguistic History – a DIY approach’ (together with Stephanie Frink) SS 2015 ‘Sociolinguistics’ SS 2015 ‘Constructing Identity - a DIY approach to English linguistics and literary studies’ (together with Stephanie Frink) 2