Dr. Rita Vallentin

Wednesday 11-12am

• Sociolinguistics, pragmatics
• Linguistic practices
• Multimodal interaction
• Accessibility and identification
• Post- and transhumanism
• Multilingualism, language contact and language change
• Globalization
• Conversation analysis, narrative analysis, linguistic discourse analysis

Since March 2026

Substitute professor for "Language Use and Migration" at the European University Viadrina 

February 2025 - February 2026

Academic Staff (Post-Doc) at the DFG-funded Research Project "The Discursive Construction of Eating as Entertainment – Carnivalesque Consumption in the Digital Sphere" at Freie Universität Berlin

Since February 2020 

Tenured Senior Lecturer at the European University Viadrina

September 2018
Research stay in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil and at the Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBa)
 
Since April 2018   
Senior Lecturer at the European University Viadrina
 
November 2017 
Dissertation on the topic "Belonging and Language Use. Narrating, Categorizing and Positioning in a Guatemalan Highland Community" in the double doctoral programme "Ethnicity in Motion" with the Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói, Brazil.
 
März 2017        
Research stay at the Universidade Federal Fluminsense (UFF) in Niterói, Brazil
 
May 2015          
Research stay at the Universidade Federal Fluminsense (UFF) in Niterói, Brazil
 
April 2014 - March 2015     
Maternity leave and parental leave
 
September 2012
Research stay in Brazil
 
June - Sept. 2011
Research stay in Mexico and Guatemala
 
October 2010 - March 2018          
Research assistant with a doctoral project at the Chair of Language Use and Language Comparison at the European University Viadrina
 
April 2010 - Sept. 2012  
Research assistant in the dean's office of the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies
 
April - Oct. 2010 
Assistant to the dean at the Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies of the European University Viadrina (substitute)

Üoverview of current courses on ViaCampus