postdoctoral researcher in English Linguistics at University of Basel
project 1: Screen-to-text communication (subtitling, transcription, comments)
project 2: Persuasion on Reddit (r/changemyview)
project 3: Digital social reading – Evaluation in online lay book reviews
co-founder of CopRe research network (communication on Reddit)
head of exam development for a profession-specific language exam FHNW/PHSG
university teaching experience since 2013 (BA/MA) (see here)
substantial publication record
numerous contributions to international conferences and invited lectures
from 01/2024 – Book review editor at Pragmatics and Society (John Benjamins).
from 08/2022 – Head of exam development in the project “profession-specific language competence exam”, School of Education, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland and School of Education PHSG, St. Gallen
from 06/2021 – Member of steering committee and examination board “profession-specific language competence exam”, School of Education, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
from 02/2020 – Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow
Department of English, University of Basel, Switzerland
from 08/2018 – Lecturer in English linguistics and literature
School of Education, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
from 05/2018 – Affiliated Postdoc HPSL Basel-Freiburg
Hermann Paul School of Linguistics, University of Basel, Switzerland/University of Freiburg, Germany
06/2022 – 09/2022 – Visiting Researcher
Tampere University, Finland
09/2021 – 12/2021 – University Lecturer
Univeristy of Neuchâtel, Switzerland
12/2018 – 11/2020 – Postdoc SNSF Project
“Forschungslogiken in den textbasierten DH”
Digital Humanities Lab, University of Basel, Switzerland
11/2017–01/2020 Research Associate
Department of English, University of Basel, Switzerland
08/2017–01/2018 University Lecturer, English Linguistics
Department of English, University of Basel, Switzerland
02/2017–09/2017 Grant for completion of PhD dissertation awarded by the research fund of the University of Basel, Switzerland
02/2013–02/2017 – Research and teaching fellow in English Linguistics
Department of English, University of Basel, Switzerland
Journal of Language and Pop Culture (John Benjamins), Advisory board, launch in 2025.
CopRe, research network for communicative practices on Reddit, http://copre.org. Co-Founder, from 11/2021.
Tasting Funny? International Conference on Humour and Taste, international conference, University of Basel, Switzerland. 09/2023. Member of scientific committee.
The Pragmatics of Cringe Humor on the Screen and on Digital Media, international conference, Montpellier, France. 05/2023. Member of advisory board.
Sympol/iMean, international conference, English Seminar, University of Basel, Switzerland. 07/2021. Member of scientific committee.
Digital Practices. Reading, Writing and Evaluation on the Web, international conference. 11/2020. Digital Humanities Lab, University of Basel, Switzerland. Member of scientific committee.
TVSERIES 2020 (Discourses of Fictional (Digital) TV Series), international conference. Valencia, Spain. 11/2020. Member of scientific committee.
ADHO – Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations
DHd – Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum
eadh – European Association for Digital Humanities
HPSL – Hermann Paul School of Linguistics
IPrA – International Pragmatics Association
05/2021 – Shortlisted for Senior Fellowship ‘Society’.
Tampere Institute for Advanced Study.
04/2021 – Shortlisted (interview stage) for Professorship ‘Leitung der Professur Englishdidaktik und ihre Disziplinen’.
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland.
12/2017 – Shortlisted (second choice) for senior research and teaching fellow (‘Oberassistenz’) in English linguistics.
University of Zürich, English Department.
10/2017 – Shortlisted (interview stage) for research and teaching fellow (‘Oberassistenz’) in German linguistics.
University of Basel, Deutsches Seminar.
10/2017 – Shortlisted (second choice) for lecturer in English linguistics.
University of Basel, English Seminar.
02/2013–01/2018 – Doctorate “Repetition in Telecinematic Humour: How US American sitcoms employ formal and semantic repetition in the construction of multimodal humour”
HPSL/Department of English, University of Basel, Switzerland
First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Miriam Locher
Second supervisor: Dr. habil. Andreas Langlotz
Defended on 26/1/2018 (summa cum laude)
09/2010–11/2012 and 09/2001–08/2006 – Lic. phil. (MA equivalent)
Major: English linguistics and literature
Minors: German linguistics, German literature since 1700
University of Zürich, Switzerland
09/2006–09/2010 – Master of Arts in Film Studies
Réseau Cinéma CH/University of Zürich, Switzerland
08/1993–01/2000 – Matura (Gymnasium)
Kantonsschule Rychenberg, Winterthur, Switzerland
09/2018–11/2019 – CAS Higher Education (Hochschullehre),
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
07–08/2019 – European Summer University in Digital Humanities 2019: “Culture and Technology (ESU 2019), University of Leipzig, Germany.
Workshop “Neural Networks and NLP”, 23.–27.7.2019.
Workshop “Stylometry”, 29.7.–2.8.2019.
06/2019 – Corpus Linguistics Summer School 2019, University of Birmingham, England
06/2015 – Didactics course in higher education: Lehrveranstaltungen planen und gestalten (‘Preparing and planning university courses’), University of Basel, Switzerland
09/2011–01/2015 – Teaching diploma for upper secondary education
University of Zürich, Switzerland
08/2011 – CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages)
The Randolph School of English, Edinburgh, Scotland
German C2 (Levels according to CEFR)
English C2
Spanish C1
French C1
Finnish A2.2
Russian A2.2
Italian A2.1
Norwegian A1.2