Prof. Dr. Philipp Krämer

Philipp Krämer is a professor of French linguistics specialising in sociolinguistics and multilingualism, creolistics, language contact and variation. He is particularly interested in language policy and language ideology, communication in multilingual border areas, colonial and postcolonial linguistics, pragmatics, and the history of linguistics. His research focuses on Creole-speaking societies of the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean, and on Western European border regions. Philipp Krämer grew up in the German-French border region of Saarland. He studied French linguistics and literature, political science and European law at Freie Universität Berlin and the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Strasbourg. In 2014, he obtained his PhD in Romance philology at Potsdam University and subsequently returned to Berlin for his postdoc. From 2019 to 2021, he was substitute professor for pragmatics and comparative linguistics at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. The University of Turku in Finland awarded him the title of Adjunct Professor for Romance and Creole languages in 2021. He joined the VUB and the Brussels Centre for Language Studies in 2022.