Within the Department of English Dr Wasserman teaches courses in the Bachelor and Masters programmes, on topics related to World Englishes, the history of English, language variation and change, phonetics, morphology, stylistics, and rhetoric, as well as both academic and creative writing.

Additionally, she regularly teaches courses within the Department of Linguistics, and the Pre-Master programme of the College of Humanities.

Her supervision spans the broad fields of historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and corpus linguistics.

Van Rooy, B. and Wasserman, R. 2026. English of Afrikaans speakers. In: Hickey, R., ed. The New Cambridge History of the English Language: Africa, Asia, Australasia and the Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Wasserman, R. 2019. Historical development of South African English: semantic features. In: Hickey, R., ed. English in Multilingual South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 52-73.

Wasserman, R. 2016. Moet en must: ’n geval van Afrikaanse invloed op Suid-Afrikaanse Engels. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 56(1): 25-44.

Wasserman, R. and Van Rooy, B. 2014. The Development of Modals of Obligation and Necessity in White South African English through Contact with Afrikaans. Journal of English Linguistics, 42: 31-50.

Van Rooy, B. and Wasserman, R. 2014. Do the Modals of Black and White South African English Converge? Journal of English Linguistics, 42: 51-67.

Wasserman, R. 2014. Modality on trek: Diachronic changes in written South African English across text and context. PhD thesis, North West University, Vanderbijlpark.

Rossouw, R. and Van Rooy, B. 2012. Diachronic Changes in Modality in South African English. English World-Wide, 33(1): 1-26.

I am affiliated with the research entity UPSET (Understanding and Processing Language in Complex Settings), at North-West University.