Teaching and Work Experience

Supervision Experience

• 1 PhD co-supervision

• 7 MA theses

• 40+ seminar papers

• 5 MA Student internships in English linguistics and Digital Humanities

  
  

ACADEMIC Teaching

from 02/2013 – MA Courses in English linguistics
Universität Basel, Switzerland

• Corpus-linguistic approaches to English speech acts

• Digital Discourse Analysis

• Evaluative practices in English online and offline

• Food discourses in English

• Humour in Telecinematic Discourse

• Linguistic approaches to Human-AI interaction

• Linguistic pragmatics and American stand-up comedy

• Posts, submissions, comments: English texts in an online multimodal context

• The Pragmatics of English Subtitling

• Transposing language across media: Audiovisual translation and multimodal transcription from face-to-face encounters to film

from 02/2013 – BA Courses in English linguistics
Universität Basel, Switzerland

• English in its Social Contexts (Introduction to Sociolinguistics)

• Introduction to the History of English (Introduction to Historical Linguistics)

• Language and the Mind (Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics)

• Structure and Use (Introduction to English Linguistics)

08/2018–07/2023 – BA/MA Courses in English linguistics and literature
School of Education, FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

• English Linguistics 1: Sound to sentence (BA Seminar)

• English Linguistics 2: Sentence to discourse (BA Seminar)

• The English Language in Use (BA Seminar)

• Literature in English: Poetry (BA Seminar)

• Literature in English: Narrative (BA Seminar)

• Multiplicity, Diversity, Variation: Language in Social Use (MA Seminar)

• Putting research into practice (MA Seminar)

09–12/2021 – BA Seminar at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

• Language, Film and Television: The Pragmatics of Telecinematic Discourse

Administration and academic services

from 10/2023 – Member of task force “Digital Initiatives in Teaching”, SAUTE (Swiss Association of University Teachers of English)

07/2015–01/2017 and from 02/2023 – Representative of the assistants and doctoral students (‘Gruppierung III’) in the Schulfächerkommission (school subject committee), University of Basel, Switzerland

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 12/2021 – Co-founder of CopRe, research network for communicative practices on Reddit.

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

02/2013–01/2017, from 02/2020 – Administrative tasks in connection with assistantship: 

• organisation of BA information events for grammar school graduates

• organisation of MA information events for BA graduates

• cataloguing of library acquisitions in linguistics

• chairing of staff meetings

09/2023–08/2024 – Representative of the assistants and doctoral students (‘Gruppierung III’) in the Fakultätsversammlung (faculty meeting), University of Basel, Switzerland

12/2021–07/2023 – Member of the executive board of Avuba, association of assistants at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

03/2022 – Main organiser of SWELL (Swiss Work of English Language and Linguistics) conference 2022, University of Basel, Switzerland

07/2021 – Co-organiser international conference Sympol/iMean, English Seminar, University of Basel, Switzerland.

11/2020 – Main organiser international conference Digital Practices. Reading, Writing and Evaluation on the Web, Digital Humanities Lab, University of Basel, Switzerland.

03/2014 – Main organiser of SWELL (Swiss Work of English Language and Linguistics) conference 2014, University of Basel, Switzerland

 02/2006–08/2008 – Board member of Fachverein Score (official student organisation at the Department of Film Studies, University of Zürich)

Non-academic Teaching

10/2015–01/2016; 10–12/2016; 11–12/2017– Substitute Teacher English and German
Bildungszentrum KvBL, Liestal, Switzerland

12/2014–12/2018 Expert for Matura exams
Gymnasium Laufenthal-Thierstein, Switzerland

01/2013 – Teacher of German as Foreign Language
Flying Teachers, Zürich, Switzerland

09/2011–01/2015 – Grammar school teaching and teacher observation in English and German as part of Teaching diploma for upper secondary education (45hrs of teaching, 40hrs of observation)

• Kantonsschule Baden

• Kantonsschule Hottingen, Zürich

• Kantonsschule Zug

• Kantonsschule Büelrain, Winterthur

• Kantonsschule Rychenberg, Winterthur

10/2004–03/2005 – English Teacher, private lessons for primary school pupils

Selected Other work experience

02/2011–12/2011 – Freelance translator English/German

01/2011–02/2011 – Internship at the text archive and library of the German Film Insitute (Deutsches Filminstitut DIF) in Frankfurt/Main

01/2004–12/2009 – Film journalist for the Landbote in Winterthur

01/2008–10/2008 – Editor and translator for the catalogue of shnit short film festival in Berne