Profile
Abstract
Lara-Stephanie Krause-Alzaidi is currently assistant professor at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Leipzig, Germany. She pursued her interest in language in education in South Africa as a PhD candidate at the School of African Languages and Literatures at the University of Cape Town. In her PhD thesis (and now published monograph) ‘Relanguaging language from a South African township school' she finds radically new ways of describing and analysing teachers‘ languaging practices in English classrooms. Her academic interests lie with sociolinguistics, philosophy of language, linguistic anthropology, language in education in Southern settings, (trans)languaging and, more recently, raciolinguistics. Currently she is working on topics that unsettle the concept of language itself, working at the intersection of new materialism, language and race scholarship, exploring racializing effects of Black Lives Matter protest placards in Germany.
Professional career
- since 08/2018
Assistant Professor, Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University - 03/2017 - 06/2018
Lecturer of Xhosa Communication, University of Cape Town - 08/2016 - 12/2016
Tutor for Xhosa Communication, University of Cape Town - 03/2015 - 03/2016
Centre Manager at 'SHINE Literacy NGO, Cape Town
Education
- 03/2015 - 03/2020
PhD at the School of African Languages, University of Cape Town: "Relanguaging Language Teaching in a South African Township School" (working title)Supervisors: Dr. Tessa Dowling & Prof. Dr. Rose Marie Beck - 07/2015 - 12/2016
Major in Xhosa Communication, University of Cape Town - 10/2012 - 10/2014
MA African Studies, University of LeipzigThesis: "Xhosa is my Identity, English is my Future": Complexities around Language Values and Practices in a South African Township School"Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Rose Marie Beck & Prof. Dr. Mastin Prinsloo - 10/2009 - 08/2012
BA African Studies, University of LeipzigThesis: "Challenges around English as a Language of Learning and Teaching in South Africa"Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Rose Marie Beck & Dr. Claudia Böhme