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
- Game Studies
- ConLangs
- Proto-Indo-European
- Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies
- Resistance Vernaculars
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:
- “Teaching Proto-Indo-European as a Constructed Language,” with Andrew Byrd; Jeffrey Punske, Amy Fountain, and Nathan Sanders (eds.). Language Invention in Linguistics Pedagogy. Oxford University Press (September 2020).
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“Supporting Graduate Students of Color in German Studies: A Syllabus,” Ervin Malakaj and Regine Criser (eds.). Diversity, Decolonialization, and the German Curriculum. Palgrave Macmillan (March 2020).
- “Resistance Vernaculars in Turkish-German Hip-hop,” Justin Williams (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Hip Hop. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (April 2015)
- "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
