Clara Kindler-Mathôt (currently on parental leave)
Heide Fest
Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences
PhD student in the international PhD study programme "Kulturwissenschaften" / "Cultural Sciences“
Her research focuses on various forms of embodied meaning-making processes, both in face-to-face interactions and in audiovisual contexts. Her (media-) linguistic work explores questions surrounding the mediality of language, language use in political settings, affectivity, and the methodological implications of complex multimodal forms of communication. She was involved in the interdisciplinary project "Multimodal Stancetaking: Expressive Movement and Affective Stance. Political Debates in the German Bundestag and the Polish Sejm," funded by the DFG/NCN, and serves as a co-host at the Viadrina Center vor Gesture and Multimodality Studies.
Her most recent publications include:
Kindler-Mathôt, C., Müller, C., Junge, J., & Papadopoulou, K. (2025). Sprechen in audiovisuellen Medien: Systematik für eine medienästhetische Analyse multimodaler Kommunikation. In R. Vallentin & D. Horst (Eds.), Sprache entgrenzen. Beiträge zu einer kulturwissenschaftlichen Linguistik: transcript.
Kindler-Mathôt, C., Leblebici, D., Marinsalta, G., Rückwart, T. & Zaglyadnova, A. (Eds.) (2024). Un/Reale Interaktionsräume. Formen sozialer Ordnung im Spektrum medienspezifischer Interaktion. Bielefeld: transcript.
Kindler-Mathôt, C. (2024). Erfahrungsraum Interaktion. Die audiovisuelle Modulation eines Gesprächs als Zuschauererfahrung. In Kindler-Mathôt, C., Leblebici, D., Marinsalta, G., Rückwart, T. & Zaglyadnova, A. (Eds.). Un/Reale Interaktionsräume. Formen sozialer Ordnung im Spektrum medienspezifischer Interaktion. Bielefeld: transcript.
Kindler-Mathôt, C. (2024). eins zwei drei vor wusch. Dynamische Entfaltung multimodaler Bedeutung einer onomatopoetischen Interjektion. In S. Kabatnik, L. Bülow, M.-L. Merten, & R. Mroczynski (Eds.), Pragmatik multimodal (Vol. 7).
Müller, C., Karpiński, M., Kindler-Mahôt, C., Klessa, K., Jarmołowicz-Nowikow, E., Junge, J., Papadopoulou, K., & Sawicka-Stępińska, B. (2024). Affectivity as stance. Multimodal stance-taking in audiovisual documentations of Polish and German parliamentary debates. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1467185
Currently on parental leave.
Multimodality research and Media Linguistics
- Conversation Analysis
- Qualitative Gestureanalysis
- Multimodale Meaning-Making
- Multimodale und Cinematic Metaphor
- Modulation of Affectivity (Face-to-Face Communication and Audiovisuality)
- Political Speeches in Mediaspecific Contexts
EDUCATION
2020-present
PhD candidate: „Im Auge des Betrachters: Affektivität und Audiovisualität von Parteitagsreden. Ein medienlinguistischer Beitrag aus der Multimodalitätsforschung.“
(Supervised by Prof. Cornelia Müller and Prof. Sarah Greifenstein)
2020
Masters Degree, Language-Media-Society (Multimodality, Discours, Media; Language and Media in Transformation)
Bedeutungskonstitution und leibliches Verstehen. Onomatopöie als Form multimodaler Kommunikation im Tanzunterricht. [Grade: with distinction]
2018
Bachelors Degree, Cultural Sciences (with a Linguistics and Cultural History)
POSITIONS
2020-2024
Academic Researcher (DFG/NCN Project "Mumo Stance" and Chair of Language Use and Multimodal Communication)
2019-2020
Student Assistant (Chair Chair of Language Use and Multimodal Communication)
2017-2020
Tutor for „Einführung Linguistik“ (European-University Viadrina)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
2023
Participation in the GAL Research School „Interaktionsforschung im Kontext methodologischer und technischer Innovationen"(Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim)
2022-present
Co-Host of the Viadrina Gesture Center
2022
Organization of the ZeM Graduates Conference "un:reale Interaktionsräume. Formen sozialer Ordnung im Spektrum medienspezifischer Interaktion", funded by the Brandenburg Center for Media Studies (ZeM) as part of the annual focus of 2022 "Digital Realities" (together with Didem Leblebici, Anna Zaglyadnova, Giacomo Marinsalta, and Till Rückwart).
Contact
Auditorium Maximum (AM)Logenstraße 4
15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
- AM 122