Dr. Janina Wildfeuer

Since April 2025
Associate Professor, Communication and Information Studies, University of Groningen.

Since August 2019
Assistant Professor, Communication and Information Studies, University of Groningen.

Since July 2017
(Chief) Editor Journal 'Visual Communication'

October 2014-July 2019
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Multimodal Linguistics at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Science, University of Bremen.

November 2012-September 2014
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Science, University of Bremen. Exploratory Project “Film – Text – Emotion”

April 2012-September 2014
Lecturer for German Linguistics and Interdisciplinary Linguistics, University of Bremen

April 2009-September 2011
Visiting Lecturer, English-Speaking Cultures, B.A., University of Bremen

April 2007-July 2008
Tutor for German Linguistics, University of Münster

2008-2012
PhD in the doctoral group “Textuality of Film”, University of Bremen. Thesis: “Coherence in Film and the Construction of Logical Forms of Discourse: A Formal-Functional Perspective” (defended in June 2012)

2003-2008
University of Münster, Germany: General Linguistics, German language and literature studies, Romance/French studies. Master of Arts, Thesis: “Semiolinguistics and text theory: concept of a semiotics of texts”

Executive Secretary Bremen Institute for Transmedial Textuality Research

Website Administration

Public Relations, Copywriting, etc.

Translations English-German

Trainings for the Improvement of Professional Communication

multimodality, media studies, (media) semiotics, text and media linguistics, discourse analysis/semantics, (multimodal) argumentation, multimodal documents: film, tv series, comics, social media, games