Bøegh, K. F. (Kristoffer)

Kristoffer Friis Bøegh (b. 1989) is a guest researcher at the Meertens Institute and a postdoctoral fellow at Utrecht University. He received his PhD from Aarhus University, Denmark, in 2021 with a dissertation on Virgin Islands English Creole. Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation, his current research project focuses on the history of Carriols, the extinct Dutch-based creole language once spoken in the former Danish West Indies, today’s US Virgin Islands. Before moving to the Netherlands, he worked at the Peter Skautrup Centre and the Department of Scandinavian Studies and Experience Economy at Aarhus University. His research output includes publications on the diachrony of Caribbean Germanic-lexifier creoles (i.e. Dutch- and English-based contact languages) and on topics in Danish variational linguistics. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Nydanske Sprogstudier [Studies in Modern Danish], published by the Danish Language Council; a subject-matter expert for the Danish National Encyclopedia (lex.dk); and a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Pidgin and Creole Linguistics.

Key publications

• Bøegh, K. F. (2025). ‘Twee shishi’: A remembered secular song in Carriols (Virgin Islands Dutch Creole). Taal en Tongval, 77(2), 141–170. https://doi.org/10.5117/tet2025.2.001.boeg