• PhD University of Austin at Texas

• Professor Liebscher is an applied linguist with special interests in discourse analysis and conversation analysis. Her research interests include language and identity, L1 and L2 use in the language classroom, and language and migration. Professor Liebscher is co-developer of the on-line German language courses.

2008:

• Schulze, Mathias, James M. Skidmore, David G. John, Grit Liebscher, and Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach. German Diasporic Experiences: Identity, Migration, and Loss. 2008. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
• Liebscher, Grit and Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain. "Mixing Languages: Canadian German in Kitchener-Waterloo and Edmonton." In: Schulze, Mathias, James M. Skidmore, David G. John, Grit Liebscher, and Sebastian Siebel-Achenbach German Diasporic Experiences: Identity, Migration, and Loss. 2008. pp. 73-82. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

2007:

• Liebscher, Grit and Jennnifer Dailey-O'Cain. "Identity and positioning in interactive knowledge displays." In: Style and social identities. Alternative approaches to linguistic heterogeneity. Ed. by Peter Auer. Berlin: de Guyter. 2007. pp. 247-278
• Liebscher, Grit and Jennnifer Dailey-O'Cain. "Interculturality and code-switching in the German language classroom." In: Interkulturelle Kompetenzen im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Intercultural literacies and German in the classroom. Festschrift für Manfred Prokop. Edited by Christoph Lorey, John L. Plews and Caroline L. Rieger, Gunter Narr Verlag Tübingen. 2007. pp. 49-67.
• Schulze, Mat, Liebscher, Grit and Su Mei Zhen. "Geroline. Student perception and attainment in an online German language course." GfL (German as a foreign language), 1, 2007. 2-25.

2006:

• Liebscher, Grit and Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain. "Soziale Positionierung in Nach-Wende-Interaktionen" Zeitschrift für angewandte Linguistik, 45, 2006. 89-106. Themenheft: Deutsche Sprache nach der Wende.
• Liebscher, Grit and Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain. "Language learners' use of discourse markers as evidence for a mixed code." International Journal of Bilingualism. 10, 1, 2006. 89-109.
• Liebscher, Grit. "Perspectives in conflict: An analysis of German-German conversations." Beyond Misunderstanding. Linguistic Analyses of Intercultural Communication. Eds. Kristin Bührig and Jan D. ten Thije. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2006. 155-174.

2005:

• Liebscher, Grit and Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain. "Learner code-switching in the content-based foreign language classroom." The Canadian Modern Language Review 4, 2004. 501-525, reprinted in The Modern Language Journal 89.2, 2005. 234-247.
• Liebscher, Grit and Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain. "West Germans moving east: Place, political space, and positioning in conversational narratives." Dislocations/relocations: narratives of displacement. Eds. Mike Baynham and Anna de Fina. Manchester, UK: St. Jerome. 2005. 61-85.

• GER 303: German Through Media
• GER 331: Studies in Genre: Linguistic Analysis
• GER 601 / RUSS 601: Approaches in Linguistics

2008:

• KLEMPA, Isabel. Funktionen von Lachen in Gesprächen: eine konversationsanalytische Studie

2007:

• KLEIN, Natalia: Mehrfache Migration: Zum Zusammenhang zwischen Mehrsprachigkeit, Lebenswelten und Identitätskonstruktion.
• WILKINSON, Mark: The Discursive Construction of Russian-German Identities in Interviews with Russlanddeutsche University Students.
  Bombera, Julia: Reparatursequenzen in L2-Prüfungen: Positionierung und Fokus auf Form.

2007-2010:

• G. Liebscher and J Dailey-O'Cain, U of Alberta, SSHRC Standard Research Grant, German Identity in Urban Canada: A Qualitative and Quantitative Study of Language and Discourse

2003-2006:

• G. Liebscher and J. Dailey-O'Cain, U of Alberta, SSHRC Standard Research Grant, (Inter)acting Identities in Dialect and Discourse: Migrant western Germans in eastern Germany

2003:

• M. Schulze, M. Boehringer, J. Skidmore, G. Liebscher, B. Schmenk, LTI WatPAL, Reducing Learning Time and Increasing Student Learning with Learning Designs

2002:

• M. Schulze and G. Liebscher, LT3 Learning Technology Innovation (LTI) Grant, Learning Impact Study for German 101/102 Online

2001-2003:

• D. John, G. Liebscher, M. Schulze, Wes Graham Fund, Geroline – Research and Development of Elementary Online German Courses

Currently reviewer for several journals

January 2008 - Present:

• Associate Chair, Undergraduate Studies

2006 - 2008:

• CAUTG regional representative (Ontario)

2007, 2008:

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship selection board, panel chair

2006:

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship selection board, panel member