Classroom Experience

Courses taught / Instructor of record

Europa-Universität Flensburg 
Institut für Germanistik / Institute for German language and literature studies
  • Einführung in die Soziolinguistik / Intro to Sociolinguistics                                                       
       Spring 2023: Germanistik – Modul 10/11; BA Fifth/Sixth Semester
  • Einführung in die strukturalistischen Sprachwissenschaften   / Intro to general linguistics            
        Fall 2022/23: Germanistik – Modul 1; BA First Semester
 
MA Programm Kultur Sprache Medien / Master of Arts Culture – Language – Media
  • Linguistic Anthropology                                                            
       Fall 2022/23; 2020/21:  KSM Module 1 – Interculturality; MA First Semester        
 
Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Department of Languages and Cultures
2018–2019        Instructor of German           
  • First-Semester German                          Fall 2018 (2x); Spring 2019
  • Second-Semester German                     Fall 2018; Spring 2019 (2x)
  • Third-Semester German                         Fall 2018
  • Fourth-Semester German                      Spring 2019
  • Composition and Conversation I           Fall 2018
  • Composition and Conversation II          Spring 2019

Luther College (Decorah, Iowa), Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Spring 2018      Adjunct Professor of German 
  • First-Semester German 
  • Second-Semester German 

University of Wisconsin – Madison, Department of German, Nordic, and Slavic
2011–2017       German Teaching Assistant 
  • First-Semester German                          Fall 2011, 2017; Summer 2015
  • Second-Semester German                     Spring 2012
  • Third-Semester German                        Fall 2014
  • Fourth-Semester German                      Fall 2012
  • 3rd Year: Speaking & Listening              Spring 2015

“Mini-Seminar” 1 week-courses for intermediate level language learners: 
  • Deutsche Musik und Popkultur (Fall 2012)
  • Popular German Music (Spring 2013)
  • Körperkultur: Body Culture; Health, hygiene and nudity in Germany (Fall 2014)

Guest Lectures

  • 2024. Sprachideologien im 19. Jahrhundert: Das Herzogtum Schleswig. Guest lecture, MA Kultur Sprache Medien: Wir und die - Historische Sprachgemeinschaften in Schleswig-Holstein (Dozent: Jan Niklas Heinrich). Europa-Universität Flensburg. ​
  • 2021. Visibilizing historical multilingualism: Feature variation in Standard German personal letters from the 19th century. Guest seminar. Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan. University of Oslo. 
  • 2020b. Private Schriftlichkeit. Guest lecture, MA Kultur Sprache Medien: Sprachen im historischen Kontakt – Die Soziolinguistik eines Grenzlandes im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Prof. Dr. Nils Langer). Europa-Universität Flensburg. 
  • 2020a. Deutsch im amerikanischen Mittleren Westen: Variation und Spracherhalt. Guest lecture, MA Friesisch Zertifizierung: Vst.-Nr. 333102c. Friesische Sprache und Kultur in der Diaspora (Instructor: Robert Kleih). Europa-Universität Flensburg. 
  • 2019b. Deutsche Sprachvariationen im Amerikanischen Mittleren Westen. Guest lecture, MA Linguistik: Modulnr. 54111: Sprachnorm und Variation (Dozent: Dr. Markus Schiegg). Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
  • 2019a. Deutsche Sprachvariationen im Amerikanischen Mittleren Westen. Guest lecture, MA Linguistik: Modulnr. 54111: Sprachnorm und Variation (Dozent: Dr. Markus Schiegg). Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
  • 2017. Johnson, Mirva & Samantha Litty. Heritage language fieldwork in Wisconsin. Guest lecture, Linguistics 237: Language and Immigration in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin – Madison.
  • 2016c. Connecting the past with the present via written and recorded sources: Methods. Guest lecture, Linguistics 303: Language, History, and Society/ German 758: Sound Change. University of Wisconsin – Madison.
  • 2016b. Blitztorte, Bratwursts, and Cherry Pie: Interviews with Wisconsin Heritage German Speakers. Guest lecture, History 201: Who Makes Your Hamburgers?: Oral Histories of Food. University of Wisconsin – Madison.
  • 2016a. Anderle de Sylor, Julia & Samantha Litty. Wisconsin German Varieties: Planning Fieldwork and Projects. Guest lecture, German 270: Language and Immigration in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin – Madison.
  • 2015. Litty, Samantha & Alyson Sewell. Heritage Language Fieldwork. Guest lecture, German 278: Language and Immigration in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin – Madison.
  • 2014. Evans, Christine & Samantha Litty. Wir reden nicht so wie ihr tut [We don’t speak like you do]: Folk linguistic perspectives of Wisconsin Heritage German speakers. Guest lecture, German 278: Language and Immigration in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Pedagogical workshops for students (BA, MA & doctoral candidates)

​Europa-Universität Flensburg
  • 2025. Historical Perspectives on Linguistic Landscapes in a Border Region. Organized as part of St. Olaf J-Term: Course GERM245 - Shifting borders: Mapping linguistic landscapes of Northern Germany.

University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • 2015c. Court, Justin & Samantha Litty. Academic Journals: Diachronica and Monatshefte. German and Dutch Graduate Student Association Events. University of Wisconsin – Madison.
  • 2015b. Music for pronunciation. Pedagogical workshop for new teaching assistants. Sponsored by the Department of German at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
  • 2015a. Koller, John, Christine Evans, Samantha Litty & Alyson Sewell. Linguistic Interviewing Session. Video. Filmed by Julia Anderle de Sylor. University of Wisconsin – Madison.
  • 2014. Popular Music: Making it your own for the German classroom. Pedagogical workshop for new teaching assistants. Sponsored by the Department of German at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.