Corinna Scheungraber

Already as a student, I was fascinated by the aesthetics and elegancy of the earliest Germanic texts and highly motivated to tap the full potential of comparative historical linguistics. After I finished my M.A. studies of Indo-European linguistics at the LMU Munich, I started working as a Research Associate at the University of Vienna. There, I became adept in dealing with large amounts of linguistic data and in carrying out self-dependent research and organizational tasks for the respective research projects I was associated with. At my position as a Scientific Assistant at the Linguistic Department of the Georg-August-University Göttingen, I was responsible for teaching, student counselling and administrational tasks. Here I refined my teaching and presenting skills and taught several courses on the Old Germanic languages such as Old High German or Comparative Grammar of the Germanic languages. The subsequent 1-year-doctoral-grant by the Excellence Initiative of the University of Cologne allowed me to enter an intense phase of research, which culminated in the publishing of my PhD-thesis in May 2020. After a one-year maternity leave, I had the opportunity to start my first postdoctoral position as a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Copenhagen, where I now conduct my 3 year-research project "Epithets of Gods and Heroes in Old Germanic and beyond – A Comparative Study on their Conceptualization, Memorization and Tradition" at the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics.

I have in the course of my academic career specialized in the Old Germanic languages, the Old Celtic languages, and in historical phonology and morphology, language contact phenomena and onomastics.