Christina studied Linguistics at Paderborn University and Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf with a focus on language acquisition, computer linguistics and language diversity. As a Research Assistant and Lecturer at Prof. D. Adone’s Chair of Applied English Linguistics Christina co-organised workshops and guest lectures about Indigenous languages of Australia. Until April 2017 she served as Events Coordinator of the Centre for Australian Studies, until 2022 as Research Coordinator.

Christina is a research affiliate at CoEDL, and a member of professional societies such as FEL and GASt. She serves on the Board of Directors of CCLS, and on the Advisory Board of the FID AAC. Since October 2021 she is a managing editor of the Australian Studies Journal. Since October 2022 she pursues a PostDoc project at TU Dortmund.

Her current research interests include endangered spoken and signed languages and their revitalisation, typology, and the morphology/syntax interface. Her work with the Miriwoong people was inspired by a six-month internship at Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre and supported by grants from DAAD and FEL. Christina’s most recent conference papers and publications were concerned with app creation for endangered languages, definiteness and possession in Miriwoong, evidentiality in Australian languages, and the role of linguistic human rights, self-determination and country for language vitality.

During this time, Friederike worked at the Fraunhofer FKIE where she also completed her Master’s thesis on Question Answering. As of 2022, Friederike is a PhD candidate with Prof. Adone, investigating language contact induced phenomena amongst immigrant communities in Australia. Friederike is a research assistant for the online master programme “Australian Studies Online“, which will be offered at five different universities across North Rhine-Westphalia soon.

Previously, Thomas has worked as a Research Assistant at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development at Western Sydney University in Milperra, as well as in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Sydney. His Honours thesis dealt with the topic of transitivity marking variation in Australian Kriol of the Barunga area.

He is currently working on a PhD Project in Indigenous Literary Environmental Activism. David focuses on Indigenous Australian and Canadian narrative writing and his PhD project explores the significance of narrative fiction in the context of environmental and social justice activism in Australia and Canada. He has taught English and Philosophy in different contexts. His research interests include Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Australian and Indigenous Canadian Literature, Ecocriticism, Post-colonial Theory, Discouse Analysis and Cultural Studies, Indigenous research methodologies and decolonization strategies in the humanities.