Kerstin Richter

Dr. Kerstin Richter is a Lecturer in English and American Studies at the University of Regensburg's Faculty of Languages, Literature, and Cultures. She specializes in neology, dialectology, onomastics, and artificial languages, with a particular focus on pop culture's influence on mainstream language and fictional telecinematic discourse.

• Academic Affiliation: Department of English and American Studies
• Research Themes: Neologisms from science fiction and gaming, semantic relevance of fictional terms, and comparative dialect studies

Her recent talks and publications explore fictional language didactics, semantic modeling beyond community practices, and pop culture's impact on linguistic constructs. She supervises B.A., M.A., and State Exam theses on topics like forensic linguistics, code-switching in cinema, and language attitudes toward English accents.

Dr. Richter serves as a pronunciation examiner and academic counselor, while contributing to the OED Researchers Advisory Group and Forschergruppe NAMEN. Her methodological work includes focus group-based online snowball sampling for dialect research.