Maria Katarzyna Prenner

Maria Katarzyna Prenner is a PostDoc researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies, University of Graz, where she works under Boban Arsenijević. Her research focuses on the intersection of linguistics, cultural studies, and sociopolitical factors, particularly in the context of Belarusian standard language development.

• Education: Bachelor's in Russian and Polish Studies (Vienna), Master's in General Slavic Studies (Vienna), PhD in Linguistics (Cologne).
• Research Interests: Morphosyntax-semantics interface, verb semantics, agentivity, language contact, script linguistics, and sociolinguistics, with a focus on Belarusian, Russian, Ukrainian, Czech, and Polish.
• Career Path: After initial studies in physics and translation, she pursued linguistics. She joined the Germany-wide network "Verein Erste Generation Promotion" during her PhD in Cologne and now supports first-generation students and those with migrant backgrounds at Graz.