Curriculum Vitae
Academic Employment & Research
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
Education
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”
Practical Experiences
Executive Secretary Bremen Institute for Transmedial Textuality Research
Website Administration
Public Relations, Copywriting, etc.
Translations English-German
Trainings for the Improvement of Professional Communication
Research Interests
multimodality, media studies, (media) semiotics, text and media linguistics, discourse analysis/semantics, (multimodal) argumentation, multimodal documents: film, tv series, comics, social media, games