Semra Kizilkaya is a research associate in Linguistics at the Department for German Language & Literature at the University of Cologne. She did her undergraduate studies in Berlin and London in German and English Philology, and got her Master’s degree in General Linguistics. In her doctoral thesis, she investigated the grammar of changes. Sie is a civic society activist engaged in political education, inter-religious dialogue, and intersectional feminism. In her free time, she likes reading and writing literary texts.