Bianca Schüller
Research Assistant to Prof Dr. Jan Alber
Decentralised Representative for Women and Equal Opportunities
Contact Information
Department of English and American Literature and Culture
Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10B
35394 Gießen
Room: 342B
Phone: +49 (0) 641 99 30034
Email: Bianca.Schueller
Office hours: Office Hours List
Research Interests
- Queer Studies and Feminist Criticism
- Cognitive Approaches to Literature, Language, & Culture
Systemic Functional Linguistics - Film narratology and multimodality
- Fairy Tale and Myth Retellings
- (Indigenous) Australian literature and Postcolonial Criticism
Academic CV
Education
| 10/2019 – 04/2022 |
Master of Arts (M.A.) – "Literary Studies and Linguistics" Focus area: English and American Studies Interdisciplinary studies: Neuropsychology; Applied Ethics RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
| 07/2017 - 10/2017 | Guest auditor at the University of Sydney, Australia, and at Macquarie University, Australia |
| 10/2014 – 09/2019 | Bachelor of Arts (B. A.) "Teacher Training Secondary and Comprehensive Schools" subjects: English, German, Educational Studies RWTH Aachen University, Germany Ø 1.63 |
Academic Employment and Internships
| Since May 2023 | Research Assistant (“Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin”) to Prof. Dr. Jan Alber Department of English (“English and American Literature, Culture, and Media Studies”) Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany |
| May 2022 - April 2023 | Research Assistant (“Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin”) to Prof. Dr. Jan Alber Chair of Cognitive Literary Studies RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
| Oct. 2020 – April 2022 | (Graduate) Student Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Jan Alber Chair of Cognitive Literary Studies RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
| April 2020 – March 2022 |
(Graduate) Student Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Stella Neumann |
| April 2021 – July 2021 | (Graduate) Student Teaching Assistant to Prof. Dr. Jan Alber Tutorial: Tutorial – Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies Chair of Cognitive Literary Studies RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
| May 2020 – July 2021 | (Graduate) Student Research Assistant to Dr. Nicole Hützen & Dr. Paula Niemietz Aachen Mentoring Model Institute for English and American Studies RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
| Jan. 2017 – March 2020 | (Undergraduate) Student Research Assistant to Prof. Dr. Stella Neumann TRICKLET Project (Translation Research in Corpora, Keystroke Logging & Eye-Tracking – funded by the DFG) Chair of English Linguistics RWTH Aachen University, Germany Interruptions: 1 July 2017 - 5 Nov. 2017; 1 Oct. 2018 - 10 Oct. 2018 |
| 2016 – 2017 |
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP), supervised by Dr. Rebekah Wegener |
Honours and Awards
| 2023 |
Springorum Denkmünze (Springorum Medal) Förderverein, RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
| 2017 – 2018 | Dean's List (top 5% of the best students in German studies in the academic year of 2017/2018) RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
| 2016 – 2017 | Dean's List (top 5% of the best students in English studies in the academic year of 2016/2017) RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
Research Project Involvement
| 2022 – 2023 | As a research assistant: “Australian Studies“, in which an online Master course of studies is being developed by a team from five universities in the state of NRW in Germany Project coordinator: Dr. Leonie John Funded by: MKW NRW |
| 2017 – 2022 | As a student research assistant: TRICKLET (Translation Research in Corpora, Keystroke Logging & Eye-Tracking) Project coordinator: Prof. Dr. Stella Neumann Funded by: DFG |
| 2016 – 2017 | As a UROP student: Multimodal Markers for Meaning: dynamic extraction of contextually important information from Academic Lectures Supervisor: Dr. Rebekah Wegener |
Memberships
International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN)
Center for Diversity, Media, and Law (DiML), Working Group "Diversity"
previously: Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität (ZMI), Sektion "Medien und Gender"
International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC)
International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural Studies (IPP), Cohort XXII
Conference Organisation
TRICKLET Conference 2022 – member of the organising committee
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Dissertation (PhD) Project:
Preliminary title: Queerness and Non/Humanness in Twenty-First-Century Fiction
Theses
Schüller, Bianca. (2022). “I am woman. Hear me roar.”: The Representation of Female Villains in Disney Remakes, (unpublished Master thesis). RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
Grade: 1.0 (“very good”)
Schüller, Bianca. (2018). Understanding the Identification of Important Information in Academic Lectures: Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches, (unpublished Bachelor thesis). RWTH Aachen University, Germany.
Grade: 1.0 (“very good”)
Publications
Ude, J., Schüller, B., Wegener, R., & Cassens, J. (2018). A Pipeline for Extracting Multi-Modal Markers for Meaning in Lectures. In R. Wegener, J. Cassens, & A. Kofod-Petersen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context, CEUR Workshop Proceedings (pp. 16-21). Aachen, Germany: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Retrieved from http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2134/#paper04
Wegener, R., Schüller, B., & Cassens, J. (2017). Needing and Wanting in Academic Lectures: Profiling the academic lecture across context. In P. Chappell & J. S. Knox (Eds.), Transforming Contexts: Papers from the 44th International Systemic Functional Congress. (pp. 82-88). Wollongong, Australia. Retrieved from
http://www.isfla.org/Systemics/Conferences/ISFC_2017_Proceedings.pdf
Conference Presentations
Schüller, B. (2024, April). Queerness of Non/Human Characters in Good Omens (2019-present) and Barbie (2023). Paper presented at the Narrative 2024 Conference, Newcastle, UK.
Schüller, B. (2023, Dec.). Cognitive Perspectives on Queer Representation in Fiction. Paper presented at the GCSC Conference "Cognition, Culture, Narrative", Giessen, Germany.
Schüller, B., & Neumann, S. (2021, Sept.). Is English more verbal than German? Evidence from a translation corpus. Paper presented at the 30th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2021), Sheffield, UK.
Cassens, J., Wiek, T., Wegener, R., & Schüller, B. (2019, July). Academic Writing Support: The Sensate-System and an SFL Perspective. Paper presented at the 29th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2019), Leiria, Portugal.
Wegener, R., Cassens, J., Ude, J., & Schüller, B. (2018, Sept.). A Pipeline for Extracting Multi-Modal Markers for Meaning in Lectures. Poster presented at LinC – Summer School and Workshop, Aachen, Germany.
Ude, J., Schüller, B., Wegener, R., & Cassens, J. (2018, July). A Pipeline for Extracting Multi-Modal Markers for Meaning in Lectures. Paper presented at the Tenth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context (MRC 2018) @ IJCAI 2018, Stockholm, Sweden.
Wegener, R., Cassens, J., & Schüller, B. (2018, July). Lexicogrammatical patterning in textual triggers for reader emotion during literary text reading. Paper presented at the 28th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2018), Pavia, Italy.
Schüller, B. (2018, July). Understanding the Identification of Important Information in Academic Lectures. Paper presented at the 28th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2018), Pavia, Italy.
Schüller, B., Cassens, J., & Wegener, R. (2017, July). Needing and wanting in Academic Lectures: profiling the academic lecture across contexts. Paper presented at the 44th International Systemic-Functional Congress (ISFC 2017), Wollongong, Australia.
Schüller, B., Cassens, J., & Wegener, R. (2017, July). Aligning multi-modal markers for importance in Academic Lectures. Paper presented at the 27th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2017), Salamanca, Spain.
Teaching Experience / List of Courses
At Justus Liebig University Giessen:
Seminar: Narrative and the Mind (winter term 2024/2025)
Basic Couse: Introduction to English Studies (winter term 2024/2025)
Seminar: The Impact of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (summer term 2024)
Seminar: "Toil and Trouble" - Shakespeare's Tragedies (summer term 2024)
Seminar: Feminist Perspectives on Magical Mothers, Godmothers, and Nannies (winter term 2023/2024)
Seminar: Literary Theories: Approaches and Applications (winter term 2023/2024)
Seminar: Heroes and Villains in Fairy Tale Retellings Across Different Media (summer term 2023)
Seminar: Witches in Fiction: Gender & Othering from a Diachronic Perspective (summer term 2023)
At RWTH Aachen University:
Seminar: New Developments in Aboriginal Fiction (winter term 2022/2023) [online course]
Seminar: Indigenous Australian Narratives (summer term 2022) [online course]
Tutorial: Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies (summer term 2021) [online course]