Dr Diana Wengler

Research Focus:

• Strategic fields of action in STEM education (MesH_MINT)
• Advancing cooperation between curricular and extracurricular STEM programs with a focus on gender (FoesaMINT)

Bicakci, M., Stoeger, H., Wengler, D., & Ziegler, A. (2026). Recalibrating impact in STEM education: Empirical benchmarks for interpreting intervention effects. Educational Research Review, 52, 100803. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2026.100803 (external link, opens in a new window)

Fruehwirth, B., Wengler, D., Heilemann, M., & Stoeger, H. (2026). Gender representation in HEED and STEM occupations: A longitudinal analysis of German language arts and mathematics textbooks (1960–2017). Sex Roles, 92, Article 21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-026-01649-y (external link, opens in a new window)

Ziegler, A., Shiani, M., Wengler, D., & Stoeger, H. (2025). Mapping collaborations in STEM education: A scoping review and typology of in-school–out-of-school partnerships. Education Sciences, 15(11), 1513. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci15111513 (external link, opens in a new window)

Wengler, D. (2025). Dialect on air: Bahamian Creole in historical radio broadcasts. Amsterdam: Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/veaw.g71 (external link, opens in a new window) 

Hackert, S., Laliberté, C., Mailhammer, R., Wengler, D., & Zeidan, R. (2025). Past Marking in Australian Aboriginal English on Croker Island: Local Versus Cross-Variety Patterns and Principles. Journal of English Linguistics, 53(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/00754242241298990 (external link, opens in a new window)

Hackert, S, Laliberté, C., & Wengler, D. (2024). Past inflection around the world: A cross-variety analysis of New Englishes. Lingua, 307(103776). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2024.103776 (external link, opens in a new window)

Laliberté, C., Wengler, D., & Keller, M. (2024). Linguistic Strategies of Estrangement in Historical Fiction: Bridgerton and Downton Abbey. Anglistik – International Journal of English Studies, 35(3), 101-119. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2024/3/9 (external link, opens in a new window)

Laliberté, C., Keller, M., & Wengler, D. (2023). “So, I trucked out to the border, learned to say ain’t, came to find work”: the sociolinguistics of Firefly. Linguistics Vanguard, 9(3), 275-286. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2023-0013  (external link, opens in a new window)

Hackert, S., & Wengler, D. (2022). Recent grammatical change in postcolonial Englishes: A real-time study of genitive variation in Caribbean and Indian news writing. Journal of English Linguistics, 50(1), 3-38. https://doi.org/10.1177/00754242211052490 (external link, opens in a new window)

Hackert, S., Laube, A., & Wengler, D. (2020). English in the Bahamas and developmental models of world Englishes: A critical analysis. In S. Buschfeld & A. Kautzsch (Eds.), Modelling world Englishes: A joint approach to postcolonial and non-postcolonial varieties (pp. 251-273). https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474445887-015 (external link, opens in a new window)

Popp, C., Wengler, D., Stöger, H., & Ziegler, A. (2025, January). Diversitätsforschung in der MINT-Bildung: Ergebnisse eines Scoping Reviews. [Diversity research in STEM education: results from a scoping review]. Paper presented at the 12th Conference of the Gesellschaft für Empirische Bildungsforschung (GEBF), Mannheim.

Hackert, S, Potye, S., & Wengler, D. (2024, June). Genitive variation in spoken Late Modern English: A multivariate analysis of the Old Bailey Corpus. Paper presented at the 45th conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Vigo.

Laliberté, C. & Wengler, D. (2024, June). Newswriting in the Caribbean diaspora: Americanization and other trends in The Panama Tribune. Paper presented at the 45th conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Vigo.

Hackert, S., Laliberté, C, Mailhammer, R., Wengler, D., & Zeidan, R. (2023, June). Past tense marking in English on Croker Island: implications for variation and change in English. Paper presented at the 7th conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), Brisbane.

Hackert, S., Carcamo Rodriguez, K., Wengler, D., Laliberté, C., & Keller, M. (2022, September). The “Panama letters”: Reconstructing the roots of contemporary vernacular Englishes in the Caribbean. Paper presented at the 9th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE), Ljubljana.

Laliberté, C., Wengler, D., Keller, M., & Hackert, S. (2022, September). The language of 21st century historical fiction: Bridgerton and Downton Abbey. Paper presented at the 9th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE), Ljubljana.

Laliberté, C., Wengler, D., & Keller, M. (2022, September). Linguistic strategies of estrangement in Bridgerton. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Deutscher Anglistenverband, Mainz.

Laliberté, C., Keller, M., & Wengler, D. (2021, August). “So I trucked out to the border, learned to say ain’t, came to find work”: The sociolinguistics of Firefly. Paper presented at the 42nd conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Dortmund.

Wengler, D. (2020, Januar). Spracheinstellungen und Unterricht. [Language attitudes in the classroom]. Paper presented at the Interdisziplinäres Linguistisches Kolloquium Augsburg - Empirie in der Sprachwissenschaft (ILKA), Augsburg.

Hackert, S. & Wengler, D. (2019, September). Producing cultural authenticity: A soap opera as a source of historical creole data? Paper presented at the 8th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE), Bamberg.

Wengler, D. (2019, June). Dialect on air: A Bahamian radio soap opera as a source for investigating diachronic change? Paper presented at the 19th conference of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics (SPCL), Lisbon.

Wengler, D. (2019, March). Bahamian dialect on air: The Fergusons of Farm Road. Paper presented at the University of the Bahamas, Nassau.

Laube, A. & Wengler, D. (2018, Mai). “All I is is heart“: A diachronic approach to copula variation in Bahamian Creole. Paper presented at the workshop “Modeling the Linguistic Architecture of World Englishes”, Vigo.

Hackert, S. & Wengler, D. (2017, September). Genitive variation in English: focus on semantic relations. Paper presented at the 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE), Vigo.

Hackert, S. & Wengler, D. (2016, August). Recent grammatical change in postcolonial Englishes: A real-time study of genitive variation in Caribbean and Indian newswriting. Paper presented at the 19th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL), Essen.