Education
2017 University of Wisconsin – Madison PhD in German Linguistics
2013 University of Wisconsin – Madison M.A. in German
2011 University of Wisconsin – Green Bay B.S. in Environmental Policy and Planning /
German and Int. Business, magna cum laude
2008 Studienkolleg für ausländische Fachbezogenes Abitur, Durchschnittsnote: 1,3
Studierende an der Universität
Hamburg
2013 University of Wisconsin – Madison M.A. in German
2011 University of Wisconsin – Green Bay B.S. in Environmental Policy and Planning /
German and Int. Business, magna cum laude
2008 Studienkolleg für ausländische Fachbezogenes Abitur, Durchschnittsnote: 1,3
Studierende an der Universität
Hamburg
Grants & Awards
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) / German Research Foundation
2023–2026 Individual Research Project: 513246485
Visibilizing Normative Regional Historical Multilingualism (ViNoRHM): Ideology, Policy, and Practice
€357,342.00
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
2019-2021 Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers; Hosts: Dr. Nils Langer, Europa-Universität
Flensburg & Dr. Markus Schiegg, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Project: Hearing silent voices – Researching invisible languages in 19th-century Schleswig-Holstein
ca. €97,000.00
de Gruyter Mouton
2018 Finalist, Joshua A. Fishman Award
University of Wisconsin - Madison
2016-2017 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation ($20,304.00)
2013 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship. Awarded for intensive language study in
Dutch. ($2,500 stipend, plus €1,095 tuition)
2013 Nederlandse Taalunieversum (Dutch Language Universe) Summer Fellowship
2011 (Fall) Honored Instructor Award, University Housing Honored Instructors program. (Student nominated)
2023–2026 Individual Research Project: 513246485
Visibilizing Normative Regional Historical Multilingualism (ViNoRHM): Ideology, Policy, and Practice
€357,342.00
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
2019-2021 Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers; Hosts: Dr. Nils Langer, Europa-Universität
Flensburg & Dr. Markus Schiegg, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Project: Hearing silent voices – Researching invisible languages in 19th-century Schleswig-Holstein
ca. €97,000.00
de Gruyter Mouton
2018 Finalist, Joshua A. Fishman Award
University of Wisconsin - Madison
2016-2017 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation ($20,304.00)
2013 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship. Awarded for intensive language study in
Dutch. ($2,500 stipend, plus €1,095 tuition)
2013 Nederlandse Taalunieversum (Dutch Language Universe) Summer Fellowship
2011 (Fall) Honored Instructor Award, University Housing Honored Instructors program. (Student nominated)
Academic Employment
Europa–Universität Flensburg
2021– Institut für Frisistik und Minderheitenforschung / Institute for Frisian Studies and Minority Research
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Research Associate
2022–2023 Forschungsreferat des Präsidiums / Office for Research
Antragsmanagerin / Research Advisor
2022–2022 Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies (ICES)
Wissenschaftliche Koordinatorin / Academic Coordinator
2018-2019, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Department of Languages and Cultures, Instructor of German
2018, Luther College, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Adjunct Professor in German
2011-2017, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of German, Nordic and Slavic, Teaching Assistant
Project Assistantships
Summer 2016 Project Assistant, Joseph Salmons & Michael T. Putnam
Wisconsin German in Wisconsin, Humanities Without Walls
2015-2016 Project Assistant, Joseph Salmons
Diachronica (John Benjamins Publishing), Editorial Assistant
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (John Benjamins Publishing), Editorial Assistant
2015-2016 Project Assistant, Monica Macaulay
Papers of the Algonquian Conference (Michigan State University Press), Editorial Assistant
2015 Wisconsin Englishes Project Website Reorganization & New Materials Creation
2013 Project Assistant, Joseph Salmons
Wisconsin German Project: Documenting Wisconsin German Varieties
2021– Institut für Frisistik und Minderheitenforschung / Institute for Frisian Studies and Minority Research
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin / Research Associate
2022–2023 Forschungsreferat des Präsidiums / Office for Research
Antragsmanagerin / Research Advisor
2022–2022 Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies (ICES)
Wissenschaftliche Koordinatorin / Academic Coordinator
2018-2019, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Department of Languages and Cultures, Instructor of German
2018, Luther College, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, Adjunct Professor in German
2011-2017, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Department of German, Nordic and Slavic, Teaching Assistant
Project Assistantships
Summer 2016 Project Assistant, Joseph Salmons & Michael T. Putnam
Wisconsin German in Wisconsin, Humanities Without Walls
2015-2016 Project Assistant, Joseph Salmons
Diachronica (John Benjamins Publishing), Editorial Assistant
Current Issues in Linguistic Theory (John Benjamins Publishing), Editorial Assistant
2015-2016 Project Assistant, Monica Macaulay
Papers of the Algonquian Conference (Michigan State University Press), Editorial Assistant
2015 Wisconsin Englishes Project Website Reorganization & New Materials Creation
2013 Project Assistant, Joseph Salmons
Wisconsin German Project: Documenting Wisconsin German Varieties
Articles in Refereed Journals
2019 Letters home: German-American Civil War soldiers’ letters 1864-1865. In Joshua R. Brown (ed.), Heritage
language ego-documents: From home, from away, and from below. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. 5(2).
Article 3, 1-34.
2017 A turn of the century courtship: Obstruent variation in personal letters in the Upper Midwest.
Sociolinguistica. 31(1). 91-108.
2016 Samantha Litty, David Natvig, Jessica Funtanilla, Hunter Lockwood, James Maedke, Christopher Tabisz &
Joseph Salmons. Anything goes: Extreme Polysemy in Lexical-Semantic Change. American Speech. 91(2). 139-
165.
language ego-documents: From home, from away, and from below. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. 5(2).
Article 3, 1-34.
2017 A turn of the century courtship: Obstruent variation in personal letters in the Upper Midwest.
Sociolinguistica. 31(1). 91-108.
2016 Samantha Litty, David Natvig, Jessica Funtanilla, Hunter Lockwood, James Maedke, Christopher Tabisz &
Joseph Salmons. Anything goes: Extreme Polysemy in Lexical-Semantic Change. American Speech. 91(2). 139-
165.
Book Chapters, Papers in Festschriften
In review Samantha M. Litty & Joseph Salmons. Segmental Phenomena in Germanic: Consonants. In Sebastian
Kürschner & Antje Dammel (eds.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Germanic Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. 10,000 words.
In review Language dominance in Wisconsin German and English Varieties: Voice Onset Time and Final Obstruent
Neutralization, 1863-2013. In Israel Sanz-Sanchez (ed.), Language acquisition across the lifespan and language
change: Applications in historical sociolinguistics. Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins. 10,000 words.
In review Samantha M. Litty & Joshua Bousquette. Natürlich waren ihre Herzen in Deutschland: Recollections of
language shift and the transition towards postvernacular Wisconsin Heritage German. In Anita Auer, Joshua
R. Brown, & Angela Hoffman (eds.), Historical Sociolinguistic Studies of Language Islands in the Americas:
Tracing the Development from Heritage Languages to Postvernacularity. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
Forthcoming The German Midwest. In Jon Lauck (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Midwestern History. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. 8,000 words.
2023 The German-language Press in South Dakota. In Jon K. Lauck (ed.), South Dakota History: Old Trails and New
Roads. Sioux Falls, South Dakota: Center for Western Studies Press.
2022 Newspaper advertisements as an indicator of verticalization: A case study of the Eureka Post. In Elizabeth
Peterson & Eeva Sippola (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 12th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in
the Americas (WILA 12). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
2022 Historical Sociolinguistic Contexts: Networks and feature availability in 19th century German letter
collections. In Kelly Biers & Joshua R. Brown (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 11th Annual Workshop on
Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 11), 40-47. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com, document #3605.
2019c Angela Bagwell, Samantha Litty & Mike Olson. Wisconsin immigrant letters: German influence and imposition
on Wisconsin English. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), Keeping in Touch. Emigrant Letters across the English-speaking
World, 27-41. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2019b Samantha Litty, Jennifer Mercer & Joseph Salmons. Early Immigrant English: Midwestern English before the
dust settled. In Sandra Jansen, Markus Huber & Lucia Siebers (eds.), Processes of Change in English: Studies in
Late Modern and Present-Day English, 115-137. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2019a Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Trajectories and Heritage. In Kristine Horner and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain
(eds.), Multilingualism and (Im)mobilities: Language, Power, Agency, 165-174. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
2015 Samantha Litty, Christine Evans & Joseph Salmons. Gray Zones: The fluidity of Wisconsin German language
and identification. In Peter Rosenberg (ed.), Linguistic construction of ethnic borders, 183-205. Frankfurt: Peter
Lang.
Kürschner & Antje Dammel (eds.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Germanic Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. 10,000 words.
In review Language dominance in Wisconsin German and English Varieties: Voice Onset Time and Final Obstruent
Neutralization, 1863-2013. In Israel Sanz-Sanchez (ed.), Language acquisition across the lifespan and language
change: Applications in historical sociolinguistics. Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: John
Benjamins. 10,000 words.
In review Samantha M. Litty & Joshua Bousquette. Natürlich waren ihre Herzen in Deutschland: Recollections of
language shift and the transition towards postvernacular Wisconsin Heritage German. In Anita Auer, Joshua
R. Brown, & Angela Hoffman (eds.), Historical Sociolinguistic Studies of Language Islands in the Americas:
Tracing the Development from Heritage Languages to Postvernacularity. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill.
Forthcoming The German Midwest. In Jon Lauck (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Midwestern History. Oxford: Oxford
University Press. 8,000 words.
2023 The German-language Press in South Dakota. In Jon K. Lauck (ed.), South Dakota History: Old Trails and New
Roads. Sioux Falls, South Dakota: Center for Western Studies Press.
2022 Newspaper advertisements as an indicator of verticalization: A case study of the Eureka Post. In Elizabeth
Peterson & Eeva Sippola (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 12th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in
the Americas (WILA 12). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
2022 Historical Sociolinguistic Contexts: Networks and feature availability in 19th century German letter
collections. In Kelly Biers & Joshua R. Brown (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 11th Annual Workshop on
Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 11), 40-47. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project.
www.lingref.com, document #3605.
2019c Angela Bagwell, Samantha Litty & Mike Olson. Wisconsin immigrant letters: German influence and imposition
on Wisconsin English. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), Keeping in Touch. Emigrant Letters across the English-speaking
World, 27-41. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2019b Samantha Litty, Jennifer Mercer & Joseph Salmons. Early Immigrant English: Midwestern English before the
dust settled. In Sandra Jansen, Markus Huber & Lucia Siebers (eds.), Processes of Change in English: Studies in
Late Modern and Present-Day English, 115-137. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2019a Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Trajectories and Heritage. In Kristine Horner and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain
(eds.), Multilingualism and (Im)mobilities: Language, Power, Agency, 165-174. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
2015 Samantha Litty, Christine Evans & Joseph Salmons. Gray Zones: The fluidity of Wisconsin German language
and identification. In Peter Rosenberg (ed.), Linguistic construction of ethnic borders, 183-205. Frankfurt: Peter
Lang.
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Reviews
2018 Review of Handbuch der deutschen Sprachminderheiten in Übersee ed. by Albrecht Plewnia and Claudia Maria
Riehl. Yearbook of German-American Studies.
Riehl. Yearbook of German-American Studies.
Invited Talks
2023 Historical multilingualism in the nineteenth century: Multilingual practices of semi-public writing in the Duchy
of Schleswig. Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics. Freie Universität Berlin. February 14.
2022d Visibilizing Normative Regional Historical Multilingualism: Ideology, Policy, and Practice. Linguistic Colloquium
/ Sprachwissenschaftliches Kolloquium des Instituts für Linguistik und Phonetik (ISFAS). Christian-Albrechts-
Universität zu Kiel. December 6.
2022c Language as a factor of identity creation in the German-Danish border region. Språkforum lecture series.
Linguistic Identities Research Group. University of Stavanger. November 30.
2022b Historische Mehrsprachigkeit in der deutsch-dänischen Grenzregion. Praktiken der Mehrsprachigkeit im
Schwedischen Reich (1611-1721): Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf die Rolle des Deutschen. Humboldt Kolleg.
Uppsala Universitet.
2022a Visibilizing the daily life of speakers: A study of historical multilingualism in the German-Danish border region.
ICES Research Colloquium. Interdisciplinary Center for European Studies. 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.
2020 Deutsch-sprachige Immigranten im 19. Jahrhundert in den USA. Migration in Schleswig-Holstein - Mobilität
von der Urzeit bis heute. Akademie Sankelmark.
2019b Schaumtorte, Cheese, and Cherry Pie: Food in Wisconsin German-speaking Communities. Kleine und regionale
Sprachen (KURS) Kolloquium. Europa–Universität Flensburg.
2019a How the past can inform the present: Historical sociolinguistics and German varieties in the American Midwest
& beyond. Spring Lecture Series. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures. Pennsylvania
State University – State College.
2018 Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. German in Wisconsin: The 50-year update. The German Language in
(North) America Revisited. University of Texas – Austin.
of Schleswig. Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics. Freie Universität Berlin. February 14.
2022d Visibilizing Normative Regional Historical Multilingualism: Ideology, Policy, and Practice. Linguistic Colloquium
/ Sprachwissenschaftliches Kolloquium des Instituts für Linguistik und Phonetik (ISFAS). Christian-Albrechts-
Universität zu Kiel. December 6.
2022c Language as a factor of identity creation in the German-Danish border region. Språkforum lecture series.
Linguistic Identities Research Group. University of Stavanger. November 30.
2022b Historische Mehrsprachigkeit in der deutsch-dänischen Grenzregion. Praktiken der Mehrsprachigkeit im
Schwedischen Reich (1611-1721): Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf die Rolle des Deutschen. Humboldt Kolleg.
Uppsala Universitet.
2022a Visibilizing the daily life of speakers: A study of historical multilingualism in the German-Danish border region.
ICES Research Colloquium. Interdisciplinary Center for European Studies. 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.
2020 Deutsch-sprachige Immigranten im 19. Jahrhundert in den USA. Migration in Schleswig-Holstein - Mobilität
von der Urzeit bis heute. Akademie Sankelmark.
2019b Schaumtorte, Cheese, and Cherry Pie: Food in Wisconsin German-speaking Communities. Kleine und regionale
Sprachen (KURS) Kolloquium. Europa–Universität Flensburg.
2019a How the past can inform the present: Historical sociolinguistics and German varieties in the American Midwest
& beyond. Spring Lecture Series. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures. Pennsylvania
State University – State College.
2018 Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. German in Wisconsin: The 50-year update. The German Language in
(North) America Revisited. University of Texas – Austin.
Conference Presentations
2022b Jan Momme Penning, Ilka Thomsen & Samantha M. Litty. Multilingual practices in semi-formal 19th-century
writing: The case of a North Frisian country inn. Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference 2022.
Universidad de Murcia.
2022a Language dominance in Wisconsin German and English Varieties: Voice Onset Time and Final Obstruent
Neutralization, 1863-2013. Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference 2022. Universidad de
Murcia.
2021 German-Language Press in South Dakota. Twelfth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas
(WILA12). University of Helsinki.
2020b Joshua Bousquette & Samantha Litty. Natürlich waren ihre Herzen in Deutschland: Preliminary post-
vernacular analyses of Wisconsin Heritage German. Eleventh Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in
the Americas (WILA11). University of North Carolina – Asheville.
2020a Historical Sociolinguistic Contexts: Documenting Networks of German-American Letter Collections.
Eleventh Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA11). University of North Carolina –
Asheville.
2019 Schaumtorte, Cheese, and Cherry Pie: Food in Wisconsin German-speaking Communities. Tenth Annual
Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA10). Østfold University College, Halden, Norway.
2018b Wie ‘die Germentown boys’ im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg ‘hell gerest’ haben: A sociolinguistic analysis of
German-American Civil War soldiers' letters, 1864-1865. Ninth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in
the Americas (WILA9). University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire.
2018a Christine Evans & Samantha Litty. “Not the real German”? Folk perspectives on language and identity in
Wisconsin Heritage German communities. 24th Annual Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). Penn
State University, State College, Pennsylvania.
2017d Regional feature development in Wisconsin German and English varieties. Workshop: The Sociolinguistics of
Bad Data. New Ways in Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 46. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2017c Generational differences in Voice Onset Time and Final Obstruent Neutralization in Wisconsin German and
English, 1863-2013. North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS). University of
Kentucky. Lexington.
2017b B. Richard Page, Nora Hellmond, Hyoun-A Joo, Samantha Litty & Michael T. Putnam. Language attitudes and
language use of recent Mennonite immigrants in Kansas. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11).
University of Limerick, Ireland.
2017a Immigrant languages old and new: Projects and policy in the Upper Midwest. Society for the Advancement of
Scandinavian Study (SASS 2017). Minneapolis, MN.
2016b Hyoun-A Joo, Samantha Litty, B. Richard Page, Michael T. Putnam & Nora Vosburg. Changing patterns of
language use among recent Mennonite immigrants in Kansas. Seventh Annual Workshop on Immigrant
Languages in the Americas (WILA7). University of Georgia, Athens.
2016a Where’s the FON in that? The development of ‘final obstruent neutralization’ in Wisconsin German varieties.
22nd Annual Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2015c Variation in word final obstruent neutralization in Wisconsin English. Sixth Annual Workshop on Immigrant
Languages in the Americas (WILA6). Uppsala, Sweden.
2015b Flying under the radar: Variation in final obstruent neutralization in Wisconsin English. Managing
Multilingualism. Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). 48th Annual Meeting.
2015a Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Language and Cultural Heritage. WUN Workshop: Multilingualism and
Mobility in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Sheffield, England.
2014d Variation in English VOT in Three Southern Wisconsin Counties. Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology
Conference (MidPhon). University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Poster.)
2014c Mary Allison, Samantha Litty & Elizabeth Suetmeier. Phonemic merger in Early Modern Dutch urban dialects:
[w] [v] [f] is going on here!? 20th Annual Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). Purdue University,
West Lafayette, Indiana.
2014b Stop. Hey, what’s that sound? Initial VOT in Wisconsin German and English. 20th Annual Germanic
Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
2014a Christine Evans, Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Linguistic consequences of ethnicity without groups.
Aston University. Birmingham, England.
2013e Popular Music: Making it your own for the German classroom. Annual Convention of The American Council
on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Orlando, Florida.
2013d Christine Evans & Samantha Litty. Wir reden nicht so wie ihr tut [We don’t speak like you do]: Folk linguistic
perspectives of Wisconsin Heritage German speakers. American Dialect Society-Midwest Regional Meeting.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2013c Time for /t/: VOT variation in three southern Wisconsin counties. American Dialect Society-Midwest
Regional Meeting. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2013b Christine Evans, Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Dialecticity over time: Register compression in Wisconsin
Heritage German. 4th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America (WILA4). Reykjavík, Iceland.
2013a Christine Evans, Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Nothing but ‘gray zones’: The fluidity of Wisconsin
German language and identification. Sprachliche Konstruktion sozialer Grenzen. Europa-Universität Viadrina.
Frankfurt/Oder.
writing: The case of a North Frisian country inn. Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference 2022.
Universidad de Murcia.
2022a Language dominance in Wisconsin German and English Varieties: Voice Onset Time and Final Obstruent
Neutralization, 1863-2013. Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference 2022. Universidad de
Murcia.
2021 German-Language Press in South Dakota. Twelfth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas
(WILA12). University of Helsinki.
2020b Joshua Bousquette & Samantha Litty. Natürlich waren ihre Herzen in Deutschland: Preliminary post-
vernacular analyses of Wisconsin Heritage German. Eleventh Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in
the Americas (WILA11). University of North Carolina – Asheville.
2020a Historical Sociolinguistic Contexts: Documenting Networks of German-American Letter Collections.
Eleventh Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA11). University of North Carolina –
Asheville.
2019 Schaumtorte, Cheese, and Cherry Pie: Food in Wisconsin German-speaking Communities. Tenth Annual
Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA10). Østfold University College, Halden, Norway.
2018b Wie ‘die Germentown boys’ im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg ‘hell gerest’ haben: A sociolinguistic analysis of
German-American Civil War soldiers' letters, 1864-1865. Ninth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in
the Americas (WILA9). University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire.
2018a Christine Evans & Samantha Litty. “Not the real German”? Folk perspectives on language and identity in
Wisconsin Heritage German communities. 24th Annual Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). Penn
State University, State College, Pennsylvania.
2017d Regional feature development in Wisconsin German and English varieties. Workshop: The Sociolinguistics of
Bad Data. New Ways in Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 46. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2017c Generational differences in Voice Onset Time and Final Obstruent Neutralization in Wisconsin German and
English, 1863-2013. North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS). University of
Kentucky. Lexington.
2017b B. Richard Page, Nora Hellmond, Hyoun-A Joo, Samantha Litty & Michael T. Putnam. Language attitudes and
language use of recent Mennonite immigrants in Kansas. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11).
University of Limerick, Ireland.
2017a Immigrant languages old and new: Projects and policy in the Upper Midwest. Society for the Advancement of
Scandinavian Study (SASS 2017). Minneapolis, MN.
2016b Hyoun-A Joo, Samantha Litty, B. Richard Page, Michael T. Putnam & Nora Vosburg. Changing patterns of
language use among recent Mennonite immigrants in Kansas. Seventh Annual Workshop on Immigrant
Languages in the Americas (WILA7). University of Georgia, Athens.
2016a Where’s the FON in that? The development of ‘final obstruent neutralization’ in Wisconsin German varieties.
22nd Annual Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
2015c Variation in word final obstruent neutralization in Wisconsin English. Sixth Annual Workshop on Immigrant
Languages in the Americas (WILA6). Uppsala, Sweden.
2015b Flying under the radar: Variation in final obstruent neutralization in Wisconsin English. Managing
Multilingualism. Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). 48th Annual Meeting.
2015a Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Language and Cultural Heritage. WUN Workshop: Multilingualism and
Mobility in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Sheffield, England.
2014d Variation in English VOT in Three Southern Wisconsin Counties. Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology
Conference (MidPhon). University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Poster.)
2014c Mary Allison, Samantha Litty & Elizabeth Suetmeier. Phonemic merger in Early Modern Dutch urban dialects:
[w] [v] [f] is going on here!? 20th Annual Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). Purdue University,
West Lafayette, Indiana.
2014b Stop. Hey, what’s that sound? Initial VOT in Wisconsin German and English. 20th Annual Germanic
Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
2014a Christine Evans, Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Linguistic consequences of ethnicity without groups.
Aston University. Birmingham, England.
2013e Popular Music: Making it your own for the German classroom. Annual Convention of The American Council
on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Orlando, Florida.
2013d Christine Evans & Samantha Litty. Wir reden nicht so wie ihr tut [We don’t speak like you do]: Folk linguistic
perspectives of Wisconsin Heritage German speakers. American Dialect Society-Midwest Regional Meeting.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2013c Time for /t/: VOT variation in three southern Wisconsin counties. American Dialect Society-Midwest
Regional Meeting. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2013b Christine Evans, Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Dialecticity over time: Register compression in Wisconsin
Heritage German. 4th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America (WILA4). Reykjavík, Iceland.
2013a Christine Evans, Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Nothing but ‘gray zones’: The fluidity of Wisconsin
German language and identification. Sprachliche Konstruktion sozialer Grenzen. Europa-Universität Viadrina.
Frankfurt/Oder.
Other Presentations
2020c 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.
2020b Soziolinguistische Kontexte: Netzwerke in Deutsch-Amerikanische Briefsammlungen. Reading Group
Friesisch Digital Project Presentations. Friesisches Seminar, Institut für Sprache, Literatur und Medien.
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.
2017b Marcus Cederström, Matthew Greene, Ana Vanesa Hidalgo Del Rosario, Mirva Johnson, Samantha Litty, Laura
Moquin, David Natvig, Joseph Salmons & Catherine Stafford. Heritage languages in Wisconsin. Outreach
presentation. Belgium, WI. Funded by the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Initiative.
2017a Mirva Johnson & Samantha Litty. Heritage language fieldwork in Wisconsin. Guest lecture, Linguistics 237:
Language and Immigration in Wisconsin. Madison, WI.
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. Madison, WI.
2016b Blitztorte, Bratwursts, and Cherry Pie: Interviews with Wisconsin Heritage German Speakers. Guest lecture,
History 201: Who Makes Your Hamburgers?: Oral Histories of Food. Madison, WI.
2016a Julia Anderle de Sylor & Samantha Litty. Wisconsin German Varieties: Planning Fieldwork and Projects. Guest
lecture, German 270: Language and Immigration in Wisconsin. Madison, WI.
2015h Justin Court & Samantha Litty. Academic Journals: Diachronica and Monatshefte. German and Dutch Graduate
Student Association Events. Madison, WI.
2015g Music for pronunciation. Pedagogical workshop for new teaching assistants. Sponsored by the Department of
German at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
2015f Traversing the gap: From historical sociolinguistics to sociophonetics in Wisconsin English and German
Varieties. Presentation at Autumn School: Grenzgänger in Theorie und Praxis – Von der Permeabilität der
Grenze zur Liminalität neuer Akteure und Räume? Europa-Universität Viadrina. Frankfurt/Oder.
2015e German & Dutch languages and cultures. Language Programs at SOAR: Academic Connections Resource Fair.
Madison, WI.
2015d Dutch language and culture. In A is for Apfel, M is for Manzana, Я is for Яблоко: Language Workshop. College
for Kids. Madison, WI.
2015c John Koller, Christine Evans, Samantha Litty & Alyson Sewell. Linguistic Interviewing Session. Video. Filmed
by Julia Anderle de Sylor. Madison, WI.
2015b Dutch language and culture. Presentation. 3rd Annual Wisconsin Global Youth Summit. Madison, WI.
2015a Samantha Litty & Alyson Sewell. Heritage Language Fieldwork. Guest lecture, German 278: Language and
Immigration in Wisconsin. Madison, WI.
2014c 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.
2014b Alyson Sewell, Samantha Litty, Christine Evans & Lisa Yager. Language research on the move: A helical
approach to documentation and research of Wisconsin German Varieties. Wisconsin Festival of Ideas.
University of Wisconsin – Madison.
2014a Christine Evans & 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. Madison, WI.
2013c Samantha Litty & Alyson Sewell. Documenting Wisconsin German Varieties: Research on the history, culture
and contemporary languages of German speakers in eastern Wisconsin. Outreach presentation for German
Interest Group Janesville, WI.
2013b Samantha Litty & Alyson Sewell. Building Community Connections through Graduate Research. Wisconsin
Idea Seminar. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2013a Christine Evans, Samantha Litty & Alyson Sewell. A helical approach to conducting linguistic field research.
Workshop on Language and Folklore in the Upper Midwest. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Soziolinguistik eines Grenzlandes im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Prof. Dr. Nils Langer). Europa Universität
Flensburg.
2020b Soziolinguistische Kontexte: Netzwerke in Deutsch-Amerikanische Briefsammlungen. Reading Group
Friesisch Digital Project Presentations. Friesisches Seminar, Institut für Sprache, Literatur und Medien.
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.
2017b Marcus Cederström, Matthew Greene, Ana Vanesa Hidalgo Del Rosario, Mirva Johnson, Samantha Litty, Laura
Moquin, David Natvig, Joseph Salmons & Catherine Stafford. Heritage languages in Wisconsin. Outreach
presentation. Belgium, WI. Funded by the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Initiative.
2017a Mirva Johnson & Samantha Litty. Heritage language fieldwork in Wisconsin. Guest lecture, Linguistics 237:
Language and Immigration in Wisconsin. Madison, WI.
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. Madison, WI.
2016b Blitztorte, Bratwursts, and Cherry Pie: Interviews with Wisconsin Heritage German Speakers. Guest lecture,
History 201: Who Makes Your Hamburgers?: Oral Histories of Food. Madison, WI.
2016a Julia Anderle de Sylor & Samantha Litty. Wisconsin German Varieties: Planning Fieldwork and Projects. Guest
lecture, German 270: Language and Immigration in Wisconsin. Madison, WI.
2015h Justin Court & Samantha Litty. Academic Journals: Diachronica and Monatshefte. German and Dutch Graduate
Student Association Events. Madison, WI.
2015g Music for pronunciation. Pedagogical workshop for new teaching assistants. Sponsored by the Department of
German at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
2015f Traversing the gap: From historical sociolinguistics to sociophonetics in Wisconsin English and German
Varieties. Presentation at Autumn School: Grenzgänger in Theorie und Praxis – Von der Permeabilität der
Grenze zur Liminalität neuer Akteure und Räume? Europa-Universität Viadrina. Frankfurt/Oder.
2015e German & Dutch languages and cultures. Language Programs at SOAR: Academic Connections Resource Fair.
Madison, WI.
2015d Dutch language and culture. In A is for Apfel, M is for Manzana, Я is for Яблоко: Language Workshop. College
for Kids. Madison, WI.
2015c John Koller, Christine Evans, Samantha Litty & Alyson Sewell. Linguistic Interviewing Session. Video. Filmed
by Julia Anderle de Sylor. Madison, WI.
2015b Dutch language and culture. Presentation. 3rd Annual Wisconsin Global Youth Summit. Madison, WI.
2015a Samantha Litty & Alyson Sewell. Heritage Language Fieldwork. Guest lecture, German 278: Language and
Immigration in Wisconsin. Madison, WI.
2014c 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.
2014b Alyson Sewell, Samantha Litty, Christine Evans & Lisa Yager. Language research on the move: A helical
approach to documentation and research of Wisconsin German Varieties. Wisconsin Festival of Ideas.
University of Wisconsin – Madison.
2014a Christine Evans & 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. Madison, WI.
2013c Samantha Litty & Alyson Sewell. Documenting Wisconsin German Varieties: Research on the history, culture
and contemporary languages of German speakers in eastern Wisconsin. Outreach presentation for German
Interest Group Janesville, WI.
2013b Samantha Litty & Alyson Sewell. Building Community Connections through Graduate Research. Wisconsin
Idea Seminar. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2013a Christine Evans, Samantha Litty & Alyson Sewell. A helical approach to conducting linguistic field research.
Workshop on Language and Folklore in the Upper Midwest. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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