Veronika Kilian, M.A.
(she/her)
An der Universität 9, Raum 01.10
D-96047 Bamberg
seit 10/2023: Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft
2022: Studentische Hilfskraft an der Professur für Wirtschaftspädagogik (Prof. Dr. Silvia Annen), Universität Bamberg
2022: Fremdsprachenassistenz an der Biddenham International School, Bedford
2021-2025: Masterstudium Wirtschaftspädagogik, Universität Bamberg (M.Sc.)
2021-2023: Masterstudium English and American Studies, Universität Bamberg (M.A.)
2019-2023: Tutorin und Studentische Hilfskraft am Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Bamberg
2018-2021: Studium Anglistik/Amerikanistik, Universität Bamberg (B.A.)
2018-2021: Studium Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit Schwerpunkt Wirtschaftspädagogik, Universität Bamberg (B.Sc)
2016-2018: Mediaberaterin bei der Mediengruppe Main-Post, Schweinfurt
2012-2016: Studium Medienmanagement, Technische Hochschule Würzburg-Schweinfurt (B.A)
Arbeitstitel Dissertationsprojekt
English as a Lingua Franca in Anti-Discriminatory Parliamentary Discourse: How Members of the European Parliament Persuade and Advocate for Social Justice
Forschungsinteressen
- Sociolinguistics
- Pragmatics
- English as a Lingua Franca
- Language and Discrimination
- Political Discourse
- Computer-Mediated Discourse
Proseminare/Übungen:
- Black English Matters: Language and Racism
- #ELF: English as a Lingua Franca on the Internet
- Raciolinguistics: Racing Language, Languaging Race
- Methods and Theories in Linguistics
- Power, Persuasion, and Populism: Investigating Political Discourse
- English as a Lingua Franca: Communicating across languages and cultures
Workshops/Tutorien:
- Tutorial Introduction to English Linguistics
- Workshop Introduction to English Linguistics
- Workshop English Grammar Analysis
Organisation:
FJUEL 2024 (Forum Junge Englische Linguistik in Bayern), Bamberg, Oktober 2024 (mit Lukas Sönning und Lea Bracke)
Konferenzbeiträge:
“It’s like unfassable” – A VELF pragmatic approach to audience design and identity construction on Instagram. 14th International Conference of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF 14) - From Global Englishes to bot-English. Language use in the era of AI, Prag, September 2024.
“Something has been lost in translation, so I will try to do it in English”: The Role of English as a Lingua Franca in the European Parliament’s Plenary Sittings. Fourteenth Bonn Applied English Linguistics Conference (BAELc14) – Corpus Approaches to Linguistics, Bonn, Juli 2025.
“[S]ince this is an issue of foreign policy I’m going to speak in English”: English as a Lingua Franca in Public Political Discourse. 8th Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English – English on the Way: Expanding Horizons, Santiago de Compostela, September 2025.