Supervision

I generally supervise student work in the fields listed as my research interests or based on the courses I teach. Please note that I'm currently on research leave (until 2026) so I'm not available as supervisor for BA and MA theses.

PhD Supervision (ongoing)

• The Language of Food Challenges and Food Competitions Online (working title); Ryan Fountain (part of the DFG-funded project “The Discursive Construction of Eating as Entertainment – Carnivalesque Consumption in the Digital Sphere”), 2023-

First Supervisor - BA Thesis (completed)

• ‘I wonder what that stage is made out of’ – Performing Gender Through Stand-up Comedy

• Making Accusations – A Linguistic Analysis of References to the Biden Administration in Interviews with Donald Trump

• A Diachronic Analysis of the Use of Discourse Markers in British TV Series

• Attitudes Towards the Usage of Sexist Language in Online Video Game Communities Exemplified by World of Warcraft

• Hedging Strategies in the Norwegian Talk Show Skavlan

• Really Simple, Really Delicious – Audience Involvement in YouTube Cooking Shows

• Lexico-Grammatical Features in English Song Lyrics: A Corpus-Linguistic Study Across Music Genres

• The Semantic Illusion and Second Language Processing: An Analysis of L1 German and L2 English

• The Use of Kinship Terms for Non-Kin in Germany

• Fat Burner’s Diary and The Drunk Man’s Cookbook: The Semantic Construction of Femininity and Masculinity in Women’s Health and Men’s Health

• Trolling: Defining the Phenomenon

• Complaints to US American Airlines on Twitter: A Speech Act Analysis

Second Supervisor - BA Thesis (completed)

• Comparing McDonald’s’ and Burger King’s 2017 Official Video Advertisements and Their Portrayal of Burgers: A Register Analysis

• Language Attitudes in Post-Colonial South Africa and Namibia

• Corpus-Based Studies of Computer-Mediated Communication: Linguistic Features of YouTube and Reddit Comments

First Supervisor - MA Thesis (completed)

• Mukbang with “You”: Interaction and Engagement in Two-Person Mukbangs on YouTube

Second Supervisor - MA Thesis (completed)

• Complaints and Requests in Colonial Correspondence from British Southern Cameroons, 1921-1925

• An Analysis of Crime-related Words in Online English-Language Iranian Newspapers

• From Chaos to Governance? A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of the Media Representations of National Security Law in Hong Kong Free Press

• Public Service Advertising Language from the Perspective of Speech Act Theory

• CARCOLLEX: A Computer-Assisted Collocational Study among Second Language Learners of English and the Lexical Storing Strategies for ‘Verb + NP’ Collocations

• How to Talk About the Character of a Beer: A Lexical Analysis of Beer Descriptions on the American Website Craftbeer.com and the German Website Hopfenhelden.de

• Genre Diversification of American Cooking Shows

• “날씬하고 가볍다” or “Slim & Light”: The Use of English in South Korean Billboard Advertisements