About me:

I am a historical pragmaticist and linguist specializing in the communicative architecture of early Germanic texts. My research investigates how speakers of Old Saxon, Old High German, Middle High German, and Early New High German performed social actions through language and how those pragmatic structures evolved over time.

My current book project, A Pragmatic Guide to the Hêliand: Speech, Representation, and the Architecture of Submission (NOWELE Supplement Series, John Benjamins — proposal accepted), offers the first systematic pragmatic analysis of the Old Saxon Hêliand, examining speech representation, illocutionary force, and the communicative staging of power and submission in the text.

I am currently Lecturer for Italian and Linguistics at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. I hold a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Purdue University (2021) and have previously held an assistant professorship at Universidad del Norte, Colombia.