Teaching

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Summer Semester 2026

  • Lecture: Language History as Cultural History: French and Spanish
  • French and Spanish: Discoveries, Conquests, and Travel in the Early Modern Period: Linguistic Readings
  • Seminar in French and Spanish: Research Colloquium
  • Seminar in Spanish: Tense, Aspect, and Mood

 

Winter Semester 2025/2026

  • Research Semester (CALAS Senior Fellowship)

 

Summer Semester 2025

  • Lecture: Linguistic and Cultural History of the Romance Languages
  • Fall Semester Spanish: Discourses on Crisis in Latin America

Winter Semester 2024/2025

  • Spanish: Intercultural Pragmalinguistics and Spanish Language Culture
  • Spanish: Historical Discourse Linguistics of Spanish
  • Fall Semester French: French Language Culture
  • Fall Semester French: Translation as Linguistic and Cultural Transformation: French-German, German-French

 

Summer Semester 2024

  • Research Semester

Winter Semester 2023/2024

  • CALAS Research Semester

Summer Semester 2023

  • Lecture: History and Culture of Language in Romania
  • Spanish Course: Semantics and Textual Semantics in Spanish
  • Spanish Seminar: Connectives and Discourse Markers in Spanish
  • Spanish Course: Medieval Spanish Texts: Linguistic and Philological Approaches

 

Winter Semester 2022/2023

  • Fall Semester: Interactional Linguistics in Spanish
  • Fall Semester: Discourses on Crisis in Latin America: El Antropoceno como crisis [Climate Thinking Focus Area]
  • Fall Semester: Translation. Language and Cultural Mediation from a Linguistic Perspective
  • Fall Semester: Time and Temporal Dimensions in French Texts

Summer Semester 2022

  • Lecture: Language History and Language Culture in Romania
  • Fall Semester: Spanish: A Linguistic Approach to Spanish Literature
  • Fall Semester French: French Conversational Linguistics
  • Fall Semester Spanish: Narrative in Spanish from a Linguistic Perspective: Tense, Aspect, Text Profiles


Winter Semester 2021/22

  • Fall Semester: Historical Conversation Research in Spanish
  • Fall Semester: Linguistic Analysis of Literary Texts
  • Fall Semester: Natural Resources in Latin America. Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics
  • Fall Semester: (Im)politeness in French

Summer Semester 2021

  • CALAS Research Semester

Winter Semester 2020/21

  • CALAS Research Semester

Summer Semester 2020

  • Research Semester

Winter Semester 2019/20

  • Advanced Seminar: Discourse Markers and Connectives in French
  • Research Colloquium: Corpus-Based Linguistics: Methods, Questions, Solutions

Summer Semester 2019

  • Advanced Seminar: Discourse Linguistics: Between Linguistics and the Social Sciences
  • Lecture: Language History and Language Culture in Romania

Winter Semester 2018/19

  • Advanced Seminar: A Linguistic Approach to Literature. Text-Linguistic Interpretations of French Prose Texts.
  • Advanced Seminar: Historical Pragmatics of the Spanish Language: Communicative Practices and Textual Genres

Summer Semester 2018

  • Advanced Seminar: Huguenots in Kassel: Language Contact and Cultural Contact
  • Lecture: Language History and Language Culture in Romania

Winter Semester 2017/18

  • Advanced Seminar in French: A Linguistic Reading of Literature: Laurent Binet, *La septième fonction du langage*
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Discourses, Texts, Traditions: Discursive Traditions and Text Linguistics

Summer Semester 2017

  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Censorship and Book Bans. Discourse Linguistic Perspectives.
  • Lecture: Fundamentals of Romance Linguistics. Language History and Language Culture.

Winter Semester 2016/2017

  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Text Linguistics Today
  • Advanced Seminar in French: Linguistics and Translation: Literary Texts and Writers Across Languages

Summer Semester 2016

  • Lecture: Fundamentals of Romance Linguistics. Language History and Language Culture.
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Textual Competence from a Linguistic Perspective

Winter Semester 2015/2016

  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: I Read but I Don’t Understand. Textual Complexity and Textual Competence Using Spanish as an Example
  • Advanced Seminar in French: Between Linguistic History and Cultural History: Verbal Politeness in French

Summer Semester 2015

  • Lecture: Fundamentals of Romance Linguistics. Language History and Language Culture.
  • Research Colloquium on Romance Linguistics: Discourses, Texts, Traditions

Winter Semester 2014/2015

  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Discourse Markers in Spanish: Functions, Text Patterns, Translations
  • Advanced Seminar in French: The Talk of Yesterday: Historical Conversation Studies Using French Texts as Examples

Summer Semester 2014

  • Lecture: Fundamentals of Romance Linguistics. Language History and Language Culture.
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Crisis Discourses. The Linguistic Modeling of Political and Economic Crises in the Spanish-Speaking World
  • Research Colloquium on Romance Linguistics: From the Specific to the General: Rules, Patterns, and Tradition from a Linguistic Perspective

 

Winter Semester 2013/2014

  • Advanced Seminar in French: Corpus-Based Textual Grammar of French
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Language and Identity in the Spanish-Speaking World
  • Research Colloquium on Romance Linguistics: Linguistics as Cultural Studies


Summer Semester 2013

  • Research Colloquium on Romance Linguistics: Textual Competence and Textual Complexity
  • Lecture: Fundamentals of Romance Linguistics
  • Advanced Seminar in French: Linguistics and Literature—Linguistic Analyses of Literary Texts

Winter Semester 2012/2013

  • Research Colloquium on Romance Linguistics: Corpus Linguistics—Key Questions and Methods
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Spanish Syntax
  • Advanced Seminar in French: Text Theory, Text Linguistics, and Text Structures Using French as an Example

Summer Semester 2012

  • Lecture: Fundamentals of Romance Linguistics
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Historical Phraseology of the Spanish Language (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. María Teresa Echenique Elizondo, Valencia)
  • Advanced Seminar in French: Traditions of Storytelling from a Linguistic Perspective—Techniques of Narration in French

Winter Semester 2011/2012

  • Advanced Seminar in French: French in the 17th Century: Linguistic Perspectives on the Language and Linguistic Culture of an Era
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: “Translated from Spanish by...”: Linguistics and Translation
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Discourse Analysis in Romance Studies. Models and Methods Using Spanish as an Example

Summer Semester 2011

  • Advanced Seminar in French: Language Change in French
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Historical Pragmatics of Spanish
  • Lecture: Fundamentals of Romance Linguistics

Winter Semester 2010/2011

  • Advanced Seminar in French: French Syntax and Grammatical Text Analysis
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Meaning – Text – Comprehension. Semantic Complexity in Spanish Texts
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Spanish Grammatography: Past and Present
  • Research Colloquium on Romance Linguistics: Language Theory(ies) and Applied Linguistics

Summer Semester 2010 – Research Semester

Winter Semester 2009/2010

  • Advanced Seminar in French: French in North America
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Linguistic Text Analysis of Contemporary Spanish Texts
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Spanish in the Middle Ages
  • Advanced Seminar: Deixis in the Romance Languages (French/Spanish)

Summer Semester 2009

  • Lecture: Fundamentals of Romance Linguistics
  • Advanced Seminar in French: History of the French Language
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Tense and Aspect in Spanish
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Language Culture and Language Policy in Spain


Winter Semester 2008/2009

  • Advanced Seminar in French: French Text Linguistics—Texts, Contexts, and Traditions (with a workshop in collaboration with Bayern LB, Economics and Research Division)
  • Orientation Course: Introduction to Spanish Linguistics
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: History of the Spanish Language
  • Colloquium and Review Course on Romance Linguistics

Summer Semester 2008

  • Introductory Course in French Linguistics
  • Advanced Seminar in French: Lexical Semantics of French
  • Introductory Seminar in Spanish: Spanish Sociolinguistics
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Latin American Spanish: Past and Present

Winter Semester 2007/2008

  • Introductory Seminar in French: Comparative Linguistics and Translation: German–French
  • Advanced Seminar in French: Tense and Aspect in French: Semantics and Pragmatics
  • Introductory Seminar in Spanish: Dialogue Analysis: Theory and Practice Using Contemporary Spanish as an Example
  • Advanced Seminar in Spanish: Verbal Politeness in Spanish