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Dr Sheila Watts is a University Associate Professor in German at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Newnham College. She has been active in teaching and research since 1998, specializing in historical linguistics of Germanic languages, particularly Gothic, Old High German, and Old Saxon.
- Teaching: German and Germanic linguistics in MML, Linguistics, and Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic (ASNaC) programs; coordinator of GE7 (German: A Linguistic Introduction) and GE8 (History of German); supervisor for Optional Dissertations in German(ic) linguistics at Part II.
- Research: Focus on historical morphology, verb categories, gender assignment, and linguistic thought history (e.g., Justus Georg Schottelius, Caspar Stieler).
- Projects: Co-investigator on the Corpus of Historical Low German (CHLG) (2011–2016); co-led the Early Germanic Noun Phrase project (2017–2021); ran workshops on historical morphosyntax with DAAD Cambridge Research Hub.
Her publications include studies on Gothic, Old Saxon, and Old High German morphology, as well as co-edited volumes on Germanic language history. She supervises MPhil and PhD students in Germanic linguistics and welcomes inquiries from prospective students in historical morphology and related fields.
Contact: sw271@cam.ac.uk, +44 (0)1223 335 816.
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