Pia Quist

Short presentation

Pia Quist's research interests include:
Multilingualism
Dialects
Language and Gender
Youth and language
Language in the city
Language and social mobility

Her research focus is currently on place as a sociolinguistic factor. How do places influence language use? How do speakers create places through language? How and with what effects do speakers create links between themselves and places?

Research projects:

The Sound of Copenhagen
(2019-2024, funded by the VELUX Foundation)

Language, Body and Place in the 21st Century
(2018-2019, The Carlsberg Foundation's 'Semper Ardens' Fellowships within the Humanities and Social Sciences)

Language and place - linguistic variation in country and city in Denmark
(2014-2018, The Danish Council for Independent Research for Culture and Communication) 

Dialect in the Periphery
(2015-2018, VELUX)

Pia Quist disseminates her research as a columnist in the Danish newspaper Weekendavisen, in textbooks, and together with colleagues at the Section of Dialect Research she edits www.dialekt.dk 

CV

Employment

2009-present     
Associate professor, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, University of  Copenhagen.

2008-2010
Associate professor II, Depart. of Scandinavian Studies, Uni. of Bergen, Norway.

2006-2009
Assistant professor, Department of Scandinavian Research, University of Copenhagen.

2000-2002
Lecturer of Danish language, Osaka University of Foreign Studies, Japan.

1998-2000
Research assistant, Department of Danish Dialectology. University of Copenhagen.

Education

2006
PhD in sociolinguistics, University of Copenhagen. Dissertation: Stylistic practices in an urban, heterogeneous high school. An ethnographic and sociolinguistic study.

1998
MA: Danish (major), Department of Nordic Philology; Political science (minor),            Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.

1995
BA: Danish (major), Department of Nordic Philology; Political science (minor),              Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.

Management

2015-2017
Head of Section, Department of Scandinavian Research, Section of Dialectology.

2014-2018
PI of the LaPUR project (http://nfi.ku.dk/lapur/).

2015
High Performance Teams, CBS Executive.

2014
Pre-leadership program (KKK), University of Copenhagen.

2009
Research Management, Copenhagen Business School.