Rate My Professor Jaime Hunt

Dr. Jaime Hunt is a Lecturer in Pathways and Academic Learning Support (Linguistics) at the University of Newcastle, Australia, within the Open Foundation program of the Faculty of Education and Arts. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Newcastle, along with a Master of Applied Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), and Bachelor of Arts also from the University of Newcastle, and a Master of Arts in Linguistics from the University of New England. Her career at the University of Newcastle encompasses various roles, including Casual Lecturer in the English Language and Foundation Studies Centre from June 2011 to February 2015, Academic Language and Learning Adviser in the Centre for Teaching and Learning from January 2006 to July 2015, and Casual Academic in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences from July 2005 to December 2013. Additionally, she served as a Lecturer at University of Newcastle Education and Innovation Australia. In 2019, Dr. Hunt was a visiting scholar at the Research Unit 'Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations' at Humboldt University of Berlin, the Department of English at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria, and the Department of English Linguistics at the Pedagogical University of Krakow and the Institute of English Studies at Jagiellonian University in Poland.

Dr. Hunt's research specializations include language contact, with a focus on the influence of English anglicisms on German at lexical, morphological, and sociolinguistic levels; language shift and maintenance among German heritage language communities in Australia; heritage languages; sociolinguistics; and language policy. Key publications feature the book 'Anglicisms around the Globe: Cross-linguistic Studies on the Impact of English' (2025), 'Informalization and Hybridization of Speech Practices' (2019), book chapters such as 'Hey, it’s what all the cool kids are talking about, okay? Exploring collocations of Anglicisms in spoken German' (2022) and 'Anglicisms in German: Tsunami or trickle?' (2019), and journal articles including ''So, mein Deutsch ist schlecht … ': echoes of societal attitudes and education language policies within the family language policies of second- and third-generation German speakers in Newcastle, Australia' (2022, International Journal of Multilingualism), 'Snakes, Sharks, and the Great Barrier Reef: Selected Use of Anglicisms to Represent Australia in the Australian German-Language Newspaper, Die Woche' (2022, Frontiers in Communication), 'The gender of anglicisms in spoken German' (2018, WORD), 'Social and historical factors contributing to language shift among German heritage-language migrants in Australia: An overview' (2019, Linguistik Online), and 'Lexical hybridization of English and German elements: A comparison between spoken German and the language of the German newsmagazine der Spiegel' (2019, Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis). She has earned awards for Best Publication (2015) and Excellence in Teaching and Learning (2014) from the English Language and Foundation Studies Centre at the University of Newcastle and has secured 12 grants totaling $27,719.