Dr.Samantha Litty

Books and Special Issues

[voraussichtlich 2026]. Riecken, Claas, Antje Arfsten, Franziska Böhmer, Samantha M. Litty & Lena Terhart (eds.). Das Protokollbuch des Friesenclubs Tonderaner Seminaristen 1874-1894 [Arbeitstitel]. Bräist/Bredstedt: Verlag Nordfriisk Instituut. 

2025. Litty, Samantha M. & Karoline Kühl (eds.). Selected Proceedings of the 14th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 14). Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS). DOI:https://doi.org/10.15845/bells.v15i1

2025. Litty, Samantha M. & Nils Langer (eds.). Language Ideology, Policy, and Practice: Focus on minoritized languages past and present. Historical Sociolinguistics. Studies on Language and Society in the Past, Peter Lang. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b21997

Articles in Refereed Journals

[voraussichtlich 2027]. Boysen, Henriette, Lena Terhart, Samantha M. Litty & Ruth Kircher. (2026, August 17). Eine Frage der Berufung: Identitätsbildung und Berufseinstieg von Friesischlehrkräften in Nordfriesland. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2hzfe_v2 [Expected March 2027: Sprachpolitik und Sprachenpolitik, 3. IDS-Verlag Mannheim.]

2026. Litty, Samantha M., Ruth Kircher, & Lena Terhart. Minderheitensprache, heritage language oder Familiensprache? Überlegungen zur Sprachbegrifflichkeit am Beispiel des Nordfriesischen. Sprachpolitik und Sprachenpolitik. 1. IDS-Verlag Mannheim. DOI: https://ids-pub.bsz-bw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/13633  

2019. Letters home: German-American Civil War soldiers’ letters 1864–1865. In Joshua R. Brown (ed.), Heritage language ego-documents: From home, from away, and from below. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. 5(2). Article 3, 1–34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2018-0030

2017. A turn of the century courtship: Obstruent variation in personal letters in the Upper Midwest. Sociolinguistica. 31(1).91–108. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/soci-2017-0007

2016. Litty, Samantha, David Natvig, Jessica Funtanilla, Hunter Lockwood, James Maedke, Christopher Tabisz & Joseph Salmons. Anything goes: Extreme Polysemy in Lexical-Semantic Change. American Speech. 91(2). 139–165. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3633096

Refereed Book Chapters, Papers in Festschriften and Proceedings, etc.

Submitted. Litty, Samantha M., Ruth Kircher, & Lena Terhart. Minority and heritage language? North Frisian and Haugen’s ecology of language. In Angela Hoffman & Joshua R. Brown (eds.), Haugen Re-visited: Theoretical and Empirical Realities of Heritage Communities. University of Wisconsin Press. [expected publication: late 2026; 8500 words]

Submitted. Multilingualism and language policy among policy makers in the Duchy of Schleswig. In Joshua R. Brown & Mark Richard Lauersdorf (eds.), Pursuing the Context(s) of Language Variation and Change: Elaborating the past, Expanding the present, Envisioning the future. Studies in Language Companion Series with John Benjamins Press. [expected publication: 2026; 7500 words]

Forthcoming. Kühl, Karoline & Samantha M. Litty. Translocated language communities. In Drinka, Bridget, Terttu Nevalainen & Gijsbert Rutten (eds.), Handbook of Historical Sociolinguistics. De Gruyter Mouton. [expected publication: 2026]

[2026]. Litty, Samantha M. & Joshua Bousquette. Natürlich waren ihre Herzen in Deutschland: Towards an American German postvernacularity. In Anita Auer, Joshua R. Brown, & Angela Hoffman (eds.), Historical Sociolinguistic Studies of Heritage Languages in the Americas: Tracing the Development from Immigration to Postvernacularity. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. 8000 words.

2025d. The German Midwest. In Jon Lauck (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Midwestern History 283–301. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780190933012.

2025c. Kühl, Karoline & Samantha M. Litty. Methods in heritage language linguistics. In Samantha M. Litty & Karoline Kühl (eds.). Selected Proceedings of the 14th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 14), 1–6. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies (BeLLS). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15845/bells.v15i1.4546

2025b. Langer, Nils & Samantha M. Litty. Effects of ideology and policy on practices: Minoritized languages and varieties in historical sociolinguistics. In Samantha M. Litty & Nils Langer (eds.), Language Ideology, Policy, and Practice: Focus on minoritized languages past and present, 1–14. Historical Sociolinguistics. Studies on Language and Society in the Past. Berlin: Peter Lang. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b21997

2025a. Litty, Samantha M. & Jan Momme Penning. Semi-public writings in the Duchy of Schleswig in the 19th century. In Samantha M. Litty & Nils Langer (eds.), Language Ideology, Policy, and Practice: Focus on minoritized languages past and present, 89–115. Historical Sociolinguistics. Studies on Language and Society in the Past. Berlin: Peter Lang. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/b21997

2024c. Hermann, Andre & Samantha M. Litty. Tønder Teaching Seminary: Biernamen as an indicator of group belonging. In Kristoffer Friis Bøegh & Mette-Marie Møller Svendsen (eds.), Ord & Sag 44. Aarhus, DK: Peter Skautrup Centret for Jysk Dialektforskning. ISSN: 2794-6754. Open Access: https://tidsskrift.dk/ordogsag/issue/view/11802DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/ordogsag.v44.152350

2024b. Multilingual Memory Albums in Wisconsin and the Duchy of Schleswig. In Rachyl Hietpas, Mirva Johnson, Laura Moquin, Charlotte Vanhecke & Joe Salmons (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 13), 28–36. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies 14(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15845/bells.v14i1.4337

2024a. Language dominance in Wisconsin German and English Varieties: Voice Onset Time and Final Obstruent Neutralization, 1863–2013. In Israel Sanz-Sanchez (ed.), Language acquisition across the lifespan and language change: Applications in historical sociolinguistics, 234–263. Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.14

2023b. Litty, Samantha M. & Joseph Salmons. Segmental Phenomena in Germanic: Consonants. In Sebastian Kürschner & Antje Dammel (eds.), Oxford Encyclopedia of Germanic Linguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.964 [Print version expected 2026; Title change to: Consonants in Germanic]

2023a. The German-language Press in South Dakota. In Jon K. Lauck (ed.), South Dakota History: Old Trails and New Roads, 202-229. Sioux Falls, South Dakota: Center for Western Studies Press. ISBN: 978-0-931170-94-2. 

2022b. Newspaper advertisements as an indicator of verticalization: A case study of the Eureka Post. In Elizabeth Peterson & Eeva Sippola (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 12th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 12), 118–129. Bergen Language and Linguistics Studies 12(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15845/bells.v12i2.3833

2022a. Historical Sociolinguistic Contexts: Networks and feature availability in 19th century German letter collections. In Kelly Biers & Joshua R. Brown (eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 11th Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 11), 40–47. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. www.lingref.com, document #3605. http://www.lingref.com/cpp/wila/11/paper3605.pdf

2019c. Bagwell, Angela, Samantha Litty & Mike Olson. Wisconsin immigrant letters: German influence and imposition on Wisconsin English. In Raymond Hickey (ed.), Keeping in Touch. Emigrant Letters across the English-speaking World, 27–41. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/ahs.10

2019b. Litty, Samantha, Jennifer Mercer & Joseph Salmons. Early Immigrant English: Midwestern English before the dust settled. In Sandra Jansen, Markus Huber & Lucia Siebers (eds.), Processes of Change: Studies in Late Modern and Present-Day English, 115–138. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.21.07lit

2019a. Litty, Samantha & Joseph Salmons. Trajectories and Heritage. In Kristine Horner and Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain (eds.), Multilingualism and (Im)mobilities: Language, Power, Agency, 165–174. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788925051

2016. Litty, Samantha, Christine Evans & Joseph Salmons. Gray Zones: The fluidity of Wisconsin German language and identification. In Peter Rosenberg (ed.), Linguistic construction of ethnic borders, 183–205. Frankfurt: Peter Lang. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-04595-6

Book Reviews

2025. Discovering the many Englishes of North America. Review of Earlier North American Englishes by Merja Kytö and Lucia Siebers. American Speech 100(1). 133–138. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-11777430

2024. Review of The Verticalization Model of Language Shift: The Great Change in American Communities by Joshua R. Brown. Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jhsl-2023-0030

2018. Review of Handbuch der deutschen Sprachminderheiten in Übersee ed. by AlbrechtPlewnia and Claudia Maria Riehl. Yearbook of German-American Studies 53. 252–254. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17161/ygas.v53i

Invited Talks

• 2026c. Sichtbarmachung historischer Mehrsprachigkeit in regionalen Alltagssprachen 2.0: Das nordfriesische Element.Making Minorities Visible: Language as a Medium of Inclusion and Exclusion. Humboldt-Kolleg. Universität Wien.
• 2026b. Speisen und Getränke in einem Landgasthof am Ochsenweg im 19. Jh.: Hinweise aus dem sog. „Ranzelberger Gästebuch“. Steinhausgespräch: Friesische Kulinarik. Workshop.Steinhaus Bunderhee. (Organizers: Heiko Suhr, Michael Hermann, Han Nijdam, Christoph Schmidt).
• 2026a. Sichtbarmachung historischer Mehrsprachigkeit in regionalen Alltagssprachen: Die Rolle des Nordfriesischen. Nordfriesland in Kiel III. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
• 2025d. I thought Frisians were horses: Friesen, Friesisch, Nordfriesland (Frisians, Frisian, North Frisia). Hosted by the German and Dutch Graduate Student Association (GDGSA). University of Wisconsin – Madison.
• 2025c. Historical sociolinguistics in the digital age: Methods and approaches for analyzing multilingualism in the Duchy of Schleswig. Language Sciences, College of Letters & Science, University of Wisconsin – Madison.
• 2025b. Sichtbarmachung historischer Mehrsprachigkeit in regionalen Alltagssprachen: Sprachideologie, Sprachpolitik und Sprachpraktiken. Nordfriesland in Kiel II. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. (Poster.)
• 2025a. Analyzing the Duchy of Schleswig in the digital age. International Workshop on Language History “from Below”: Data Sources and (Digital) Approaches. University of Lausanne.. (Organizers: Markus Schiegg & Anita Auer)
• 2024e. Terminologische Überlegungen in Bezug auf das Nordfriesische. The Sociolinguistics of North Frisian: Attitudes, Acquisition, and Applications of Research Findings. Workshop. Dansk Centralbibliotek for Sydslesvig. (Organizer: Ruth Kircher, ECMI)
• 2024d. Language Ideologies in the 19th Century: The Duchy of Schleswig and the Case of North Frisian / Sprachideologien im 19. Jahrhundert: Das Herzogtum Schleswig und der Fall des Nordfriesischen. The Sociolinguistics of North Frisian: Attitudes, Acquisition, and Applications of Research Findings. Workshop. Dansk Centralbibliotek for Sydslesvig. (Organizer: Ruth Kircher, ECMI)
• 2024c. Litty, Samantha M., Ruth Kircher, & Lena Terhart. The Case of North Frisian: minority language, regional language, or heritage language? Haugen Re-visited: Theoretical and Empirical Realities of Heritage Communities. Workshop. University of Uppsala. (Organizer: Angela Hoffman).
• 2024b. Visibilizing ideologies of language in the 19th century in the Duchy of Schleswig. ICES Research Colloquium. Interdisciplinary Center for European Studies. Europa-Universität Flensburg.
• 2024a. Litty, Samantha M. & Andre Hermann. Visibilizing Normative Regional Historical Multilingualism (ViNoRHM).Invited talk. Peter Skautrup Centret. Aarhus Universitet.
• 2023b. Litty, Samantha M. & Lena Terhart. Narratives of language policy and known "truths": Problematizing the case of North Frisian. Endangered Languages in Europe (Conference). Flensburg.
• 2023a. Historical multilingualism in the nineteenth century: Multilingual practices of semi-public writing in the Duchy of Schleswig. Dahlem Lectures in Linguistics. Freie Universität Berlin.
• 2022d. Visibilizing Normative Regional Historical Multilingualism: Ideology, Policy, and Practice. Linguistic Colloquium / Sprachwissenschaftliches Kolloquium des Instituts für Linguistik und Phonetik (ISFAS). Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
• 2022c. Language as a factor of identity creation in the German-Danish border region. Språkforum lecture series. Linguistic Identities Research Group. University of Stavanger.
• 2022b. Historische Mehrsprachigkeit in der deutsch-dänischen Grenzregion. Praktiken der Mehrsprachigkeit im Schwedischen Reich (1611–1721): Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf die Rolle des Deutschen. Humboldt Kolleg. Uppsala Universitet.
• 2022a. Visibilizing the daily life of speakers: A study of historical multilingualism in the German-Danish border region. ICES Research Colloquium. Interdisciplinary Center for European Studies. Europa-Universität Flensburg.
• 2021. Das historische soziolinguistische Umfeld des Deutschen in Wisconsin. Salzburger sprachhistorischer Workshop (SaShi Mini-Workshop). Universität Salzburg.
• 2019b. Schaumtorte, Cheese, and Cherry Pie: Food in Wisconsin German-speaking Communities. Kleine und regionale Sprachen (KURS) Kolloquium. Europa-Universität Flensburg.
• 2019a. How the past can inform the present: Historical sociolinguistics and German varieties in the American Midwest & beyond. Spring Lecture Series. Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures. The Pennsylvania State University. State College, PA.
• 2018. Litty, Samantha & Joseph Salmons. German in Wisconsin: The 50-year update. The German Language in (North) America Revisited. University of Texas – Austin. 

Conference Presentations

• 2025. Multilingualism and language policy in the Parliament of the Duchy of Schleswig. Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference. 21–23 May. University of Bristol.
• 2024e. Kircher, Ruth, Lena Terhart & Samantha M. Litty. Sprachpolitik und Spracheinstellungen in Nordfriesland. Sprach(en)politik in Deutschland: Perspektiven auf Sprachminderheiten- und Mehrsprachigkeitskonstellationen.Tagung am Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache. IDS Mannheim.
• 2024d. Litty, Samantha M., Ruth Kircher & Lena Terhart. Nordfriesisch: Herkunftssprache, regionale Sprache oder Minderheitensprache. Sprach(en)politik in Deutschland: Perspektiven auf Sprachminderheiten- und Mehrsprachigkeitskonstellationen. Tagung am Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache. IDS Mannheim.
• 2024c. Terhart, Lena, Samantha M. Litty & Ruth Kircher. Nordfriesisch an den Schulen Nordfrieslands: Schein oder Sein? Sprach(en)politik in Deutschland: Perspektiven auf Sprachminderheiten- und Mehrsprachigkeitskonstellationen. Tagung am Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache. IDS Mannheim.
• 2024b. Litty, Samantha M. & Andre Hermann. ‘Visible bilingualism’: How regional languages in the Duchy of Schleswig are ‘invisibilized’. Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference. University of Zurich.
• 2024a. Wer nicht liebt Wein, Weib und Gesang…: Women and the Ranzelberg Guestbook. Forum for Germanic Language Studies (FGLS) Conference. University of Cambridge.
• 2023c. Sichtbare und ‚unsichtbare‘ Sprachen in regionalen Alltagssprachen: Das Herzogtum Schleswig im 19. Jahrhundert.15. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte (GGSG). Universität Passau.
• 2023b. Langer, Nils, Samantha M. Litty & Temmo Bosse. Neue Narrative der Sprachgeschichtsschreibung: Alltägliche Mehrsprachigkeit im Herzogtum Schleswig. 15. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte (GGSG). Universität Passau.
• 2023a. Litty, Samantha M., Andre Hermann, Jan Momme Penning & Ilka Thomsen. Aus dem Gästebuch eines nordfriesischen Gasthofs: Regionale Mehrsprachigkeit im Herzogtum Schleswig. 15. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Germanistische Sprachgeschichte (GGSG). Universität Passau.
• 2022c. Remember me when far far off: Multilingual Memory Albums in Wisconsin and the Duchy of Schleswig. Thirteenth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA 13). University of Wisconsin – Madison.
• 2022b. Penning, Jan Momme, Ilka Thomsen & Samantha M. Litty. Multilingual practices in semi-formal 19th-century writing: The case of a North Frisian country inn. Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference 2022. Universidad de Murcia.
• 2022a. Language dominance in Wisconsin German and English Varieties: Voice Onset Time and Final Obstruent Neutralization, 1863–2013. Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN) Conference 2022. Universidad de Murcia.
• 2021. German-Language Press in South Dakota. Twelfth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas(WILA12). University of Helsinki.
• 2020b. Bousquette, Joshua & Samantha Litty. Natürlich waren ihre Herzen in Deutschland: Preliminary post-vernacular analyses of Wisconsin Heritage German. Eleventh Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA11). University of North Carolina – Asheville.
• 2020a. Historical Sociolinguistic Contexts: Documenting Networks of German-American Letter Collections. Eleventh Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA11). University of North Carolina – Asheville.
• 2019. Schaumtorte, Cheese, and Cherry Pie: Food in Wisconsin German-speaking Communities. Tenth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA10). Østfold University College. Halden, Norway.
• 2018b. Wie ‘die Germentown boys’ im Amerikanischen Bürgerkrieg ‘hell gerest’ haben: A sociolinguistic analysis of German-American Civil War soldiers’ letters, 1864–1865. Ninth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA9). University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire.
• 2018a. Evans, Christine & Samantha Litty. “Not the real German”? Folk perspectives on language and identity in Wisconsin Heritage German communities. 24th Annual Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). The Pennsylvania State University. State College, Pennsylvania.
• 2017d. Regional feature development in Wisconsin German and English varieties. Workshop: The Sociolinguistics of Bad Data. New Ways in Analyzing Variation (NWAV) 46. University of Wisconsin – Madison.
• 2017c. Generational differences in Voice Onset Time and Final Obstruent Neutralization in Wisconsin German and English, 1863–2013. North American Research Network in Historical Sociolinguistics (NARNiHS). University of Kentucky. Lexington.
• 2017b. Page, B. Richard, Nora Hellmond, Hyoun-A Joo, Samantha Litty & Michael T. Putnam. Language attitudes and language use of recent Mennonite immigrants in Kansas. International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB11). University of Limerick, Ireland.
• 2017a. Immigrant languages old and new: Projects and policy in the Upper Midwest. Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS 2017). Minneapolis, MN.
• 2016b. Joo, Hyoun-A, Samantha Litty, B. Richard Page, Michael T. Putnam & Nora Vosburg. Changing patterns of language use among recent Mennonite immigrants in Kansas. Seventh Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA7). University of Georgia, Athens.
• 2016a. Where’s the FON in that? The development of ‘final obstruent neutralization’ in Wisconsin German varieties. 22nd Annual Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). University of Iceland. Reykjavik, Iceland.
• 2015c. Variation in word final obstruent neutralization in Wisconsin English. Sixth Annual Workshop on Immigrant Languages in the Americas (WILA6). University of Uppsala, Sweden.
• 2015b. Flying under the radar: Variation in final obstruent neutralization in Wisconsin English. Managing Multilingualism. Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE). 48th Annual Meeting. Leiden, Netherlands.
• 2015a. Litty, Samantha & Joseph Salmons. Language and Cultural Heritage. WUN Workshop: Multilingualism and Mobility in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Sheffield, England.
• 2014d. Variation in English VOT in Three Southern Wisconsin Counties. Mid-Continental Phonetics & Phonology Conference (MidPhon). University of Wisconsin – Madison. (Poster.)
• 2014c. Allison, Mary, Samantha Litty & Elizabeth Suetmeier. Phonemic merger in Early Modern Dutch urban dialects: [w] [v] [f] is going on here!? 20th Annual Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). Purdue University. West Lafayette, Indiana.
• 2014b. Stop. Hey, what’s that sound? Initial VOT in Wisconsin German and English. 20th Annual Germanic Linguistics Annual Conference (GLAC). Purdue University. West Lafayette, Indiana.
• 2014a. Evans, Christine, Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Linguistic consequences of ethnicity without groups. Aston University. Birmingham, England.
• 2013e. Popular Music: Making it your own for the German classroom. Annual Convention of The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Orlando, Florida.
• 2013d. Evans, Christine & Samantha Litty. Wir reden nicht so wie ihr tut [We don’t speak like you do]: Folk linguistic perspectives of Wisconsin Heritage German speakers. American Dialect Society-Midwest Regional Meeting. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• 2013c. Time for /t/: VOT variation in three southern Wisconsin counties. American Dialect Society-Midwest Regional Meeting. Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• 2013b. Evans, Christine, Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Dialecticity over time: Register compression in Wisconsin Heritage German. Fourth Workshop on Immigrant Languages in America (WILA4). University of Iceland. Reykjavik, Iceland.
• 2013a. Evans, Christine, Samantha Litty & Joseph Salmons. Nothing but ‘gray zones’: The fluidity of Wisconsin German language and identification. Sprachliche Konstruktion sozialer Grenzen. Europa-Universität Viadrina. Frankfurt/Oder.

Guest Lectures 

• 2026. Language policy in the past. Guest lecture, MA Kultur Sprache Medien: Linguistik – The Minoritisation of Languages (Prof. Dr. Nils Langer). Europa-Universität Flensburg.
• 2024. Sprachideologien im 19. Jahrhundert: Das Herzogtum Schleswig. Guest lecture, MA Kultur Sprache Medien: Wir und die - Historische Sprachgemeinschaften in Schleswig-Holstein (Dozent: Jan Niklas Heinrich). Europa-Universität Flensburg.
• 2021. Visibilizing historical multilingualism: Feature variation in Standard German personal letters from the 19th century. Guest seminar. Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan. University of Oslo.
• 2020b. Private Schriftlichkeit. Guest lecture, MA Kultur Sprache Medien: Sprachen im historischen Kontakt – Die Soziolinguistik eines Grenzlandes im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Prof. Dr. Nils Langer). Europa-Universität Flensburg.
• 2020a. Deutsch im amerikanischen Mittleren Westen: Variation und Spracherhalt. Guest lecture, MA Friesisch Zertifizierung: Vst.-Nr. 333102c. Friesische Sprache und Kultur in der Diaspora (Instructor: Robert Kleih). Europa-Universität Flensburg.
• 2019b. Deutsche Sprachvariationen im Amerikanischen Mittleren Westen. Guest lecture, MA Linguistik: Modulnr. 54111: Sprachnorm und Variation (Dozent: Dr. Markus Schiegg). Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
• 2019a. Deutsche Sprachvariationen im Amerikanischen Mittleren Westen. Guest lecture, MA Linguistik: Modulnr. 54111: Sprachnorm und Variation (Dozent: Dr. Markus Schiegg). Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
• 2017. Johnson, Mirva & Samantha Litty. Heritage language fieldwork in Wisconsin. Guest lecture, Linguistics 237: Language and Immigration in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin – Madison.
• 2016c. Connecting the past with the present via written and recorded sources: Methods. Guest lecture, Linguistics 303: Language, History, and Society/ German 758: Sound Change. University of Wisconsin – Madison.
• 2016b. Blitztorte, Bratwursts, and Cherry Pie: Interviews with Wisconsin Heritage German Speakers. Guest lecture, History 201: Who Makes Your Hamburgers?: Oral Histories of Food. University of Wisconsin – Madison.
• 2016a. Anderle de Sylor, Julia & Samantha Litty. Wisconsin German Varieties: Planning Fieldwork and Projects. Guest lecture, German 270: Language and Immigration in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin – Madison.
• 2015. Litty, Samantha & Alyson Sewell. Heritage Language Fieldwork. Guest lecture, German 278: Language and Immigration in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin – Madison.
• 2014. Evans, Christine & Samantha Litty. Wir reden nicht so wie ihr tut [We don’t speak like you do]: Folk linguistic perspectives of Wisconsin Heritage German speakers. Guest lecture, German 278: Language and Immigration in Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin 

Public Outreach Talks 

• 2026. Riecken, Claas, Franziska Böhmer, Antje Arfsten, Lena Terhart & Samantha Litty. Zwischen Bier und alten Sagen: Der Friesenclub am Lehrerseminar in Tondern (1874–1894). 34. Nordfriesisches Sommerinstitut. Nordfriisk Instituut. Bredstedt.
• 2024. Mor Freisch hei ick togt her oun ta finnen - Erkenntnisse aus dem Ranzelberger Gästebuch. Ferring Stiftung. Alkersum, Föhr.
• 2023. Litty, Samantha M., Jan Momme Penning, Ilka Thomsen, & Andre Hermann. Der Krug am Ochsenweg: 1834–1888: Das Ranzelberger Gästebuch erzählt. 31. Nordfriesisches Sommerinstitut. Nordfriisk Instituut. Bredstedt.
• 2020. Deutsch-sprachige Immigranten im 19. Jahrhundert in den USA. Migration in Schleswig-Holstein - Mobilität von der Urzeit bis heute. Akademie Sankelmark.
• 2017. Cederström, Marcus, Matthew Greene, Ana Vanesa Hidalgo Del Rosario, Mirva Johnson, Samantha Litty, Laura Moquin, David Natvig, Joseph Salmons & Catherine Stafford. Heritage languages in Wisconsin. Outreach presentation. Belgium, WI. Funded by the Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Initiative.
• 2013. Litty, Samantha & Alyson Sewell. Documenting Wisconsin German Varieties: Research on the history, culture and contemporary languages of German speakers in eastern Wisconsin. Outreach presentation for German Interest Group Janesville, WI. 

• Historischer Sprachkontakt in der deutsch-dänischen Grenzregion
• Historische Soziolinguistik 
• Historische Mehrsprachigkeit
• Sprachgeschichtsschreibung
• Herkunftssprachen und Feldforschung 
• Deutsche Sprachvarietäten im amerikanischen "Midwest"