Brenna Reinhart Byrd
- Assistant Professor, German Studies
- Director of Beginning German
- Folklore & Mythology
- German Studies
- Modern & Classical Languages Literatures & Cultures
- Linguistics
- Masters in Teaching World Languages
1003 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-3629
Other Affiliations:
- American Association for Teachers of German (AATG)
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
- Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT)
- Kentucky World Languages Association
Research Interests:
- Germanic Linguistics
- Turkish-German identity
- Hip Hop Studies
- Style and Sociolinguistic Variation
- Second Language Acquisition
- History of the German Language
Education
2004-2010 Ph.D. Germanic Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Advisor: Christopher M. Stevens
2003-2004 Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany: Germanistik (via DAAD stipend)
2003 M.A., UCLA; Germanic Linguistics
2000 B.A., University of Texas at Austin: German with minor in Linguistics
1998-1999 Universität Kassel, Germany: Germanistik (via VDAC stipend)
Selected Publications:
- “Resistance Vernaculars in Turkish-German Hip-hop,” Justin Williams (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Hip Hop. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (April 2015)
- From Opfer to Gangsta: the Evolving Linguistic Representation of Turkish Germans in the Media. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles. (2010)
- "Media Representations of Turkish-German and Hip-Hop Language as a Uniform Ethnolect" In: Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Symposium About Language and Society - Austin. Texas Linguistic Forum 53. (2009)
- Assistant Professor, German Studies
- Director of Beginning German
- Folklore & Mythology
- German Studies
- Modern & Classical Languages Literatures & Cultures
- Linguistics
- Masters in Teaching World Languages
1003 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-3629
Other Affiliations:
- American Association for Teachers of German (AATG)
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)
- Southern Conference on Language Teaching (SCOLT)
- Kentucky World Languages Association
