• Teaching
• Academic positions
• Academic activities
• Projects

Teaching at university (most recent)

WS 2018/9

Sprache und politische Ökonomie (mit Jonas Hassemer)

Gedenken - ein linguistisches Arbeitsfeld (mit Christian Bendl)

SoSe 2018
Bourdieu und die Linguistik (MA-Proseminar)

WS 2017/8
Minderheitenforschung (MA-Proseminar), in which the students created websites for their research projects

Workshops and teaching outside university

02/2018
Workshop “erlebte und gelebte Mehrsprachigkeit” in training course for school librarians, PH Wien (Teacher Training College Vienna), Austria. German.

10/2017
Organisation of and teaching in 1-week-module on multilingualism, sociolinguistics and migration for a certification course for mother-tongue teachers in Austria, PH Wien (Teacher Training College Vienna), Austria. German.

10/2017
Lecture 1-day-workshop on language acquisition, dialect and integration at Bildungszentrum Salzkammergut (BIS), Ebenensee, Austria. Organised by COMMIT.

07/2017
Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer (IDT), Fribourg, Switzerland: Workshop with em. Prof. Rudolf de Cillia: “Deutsch als Zweitsprache im Kontext sozialer Integration in den deutschsprachigen Ländern: berufliche Aus- und Weiterbildung im Fokus“.

07/2017
Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer (IDT), Fribourg, Switzerland: Leading of a roundtable discussion on German as a second language in the context of migration (original title in German: “Deutsch als Zweitsprache im Migrations­zusammenhang – Brücke, Hürde oder Bürde?“)

02/2016 – 01/2022
Institute of Linguistics, University of Vienna: Postdoc University Assistant

09/2012 – 06/2015
Research Centre on Multilingualism, Institute of Multilingualism at the University of Fribourg and the University of Teacher Education Fribourg, Switzerland: Postdoc researcher & scientific collaborator

07/2010 – 09/2011
Institute of Multilingualism, University of Fribourg and University of Teacher Education Fribourg: Researcher

11/2007 – 04/2010
School of Applied Linguistics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur, Switzerland: Dart time scientific collaborator in the design of studies on English as Medium of Instruction and English in multinational companies in Switzerland, with Prof. Patrick Studer

01/2007 – 10/2010
Department of Linguistics, University of Bern, Switzerland: Doctoral student in the EU FP6 Project “LINEE: Languages In a Network of European Excellence” with Prof. Iwar Werlen

02/2006 – 09/2007
Centre for the Study in Science and Technology (CEST); today Swiss Council Science and Innovation Council, Berne, Switzerland: Internship in the area of Higher Education Studies (11 months); principal researcher in a qualitative study on the choice of IT as field of study (9 months)

Organisational activities

07/2018
International summer school: Metapragmatics, language ideologies and positioning practices, with Prof. Jürgen Spitzmüller, Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna.

12/2017
International 2-day workshop: ’Commodification’: The potential and limits of a concept; Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna.

07/2017
Panel discussion on Deutsch als Zweitsprache im Migrations­zusammenhang – Brücke, Hürde oder Bürde?, Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer (IDT), Fribourg, Switzerland.

05/2014
Semi-annual meeting of the Transnational Expert Advisory Forum on Language and Migration in Fribourg

Association activities

06/2017 –
Founding member of the group “Language & Work”

02/2016 – 07/2017
Co-direction with em. Prof. Rudolf de Cillia of the Special Interest Group: “Deutsch als Zweitsprache im Kontext sozialer Integration in den deutschsprachigen Ländern: berufliche Aus- und Weiterbildung im Fokus“ for the Internationale Tagung der Deutschlehrerinnen und Deutschlehrer (IDT), Fribourg, Switzerland.

02/2014 – 01/2016
Member of the Executive Board of Vals-Asla (Swiss Association for Applied Linguistics)

How to be ‘exotic’: A sociolinguistic ethnography in Thai massage studios in Vienna [on-going]

Access to the labour market, unemployment and language skills, project lead by Prof. Alexandre Duchêne [01/2013-06/2015; completed]

When language becomes the subject of work: Multilingualism in Biel/Bienne’s call centres, project lead by Prof. Dr. Alexandre Duchêne, University of Fribourg [07/2010-09/2011; completed]

Integration through language – the language of integration: A critical discourse analysis of the role of language in the integration policies of Switzerland and Basel 1998-2008 [02/2007-02/2013; completed]

LINEE: Languages In a Network of European Excellence, project lead by Prof. em. Iwar Werlen, University of Bern, collaboration in various Work Packages [02/2007-09/2010; completed]