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Dennis Scheller-Boltz

Resume

Personal details:

  • Date of birth: 7 April 1977 in Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein)
  • Denomination: Protestant
  • Nationality: German
  • Marital Status: civil union, no kids

Research Interests and Areas of Expertise:

Slavonic Linguistics: Russian/ Polish

  • Gender and queer linguistics:
    • history and tendencies of Russian and Polish gender- and queer linguistics
    • patriarchal structures in Russian and Polish word formation and syntax
    • grammatical gender in Slavonic linguistics
    • gendered pronouns
    • gendered language structures
    • gender-specific word formation
    • political correctness
    • gender and cognition
    • language and ideology
    • language and sexuality
  • Word formation/ morphology:
    • confixes
    • compounds
    • tendencies in word formation
    • language change
    • word formation and semantics
    • morphopragmatics
    • comparison of word formation in Slavonic languages
    • culture-specific word formation
  • Sociolinguistics:
    • gender-specific language use (genderlects)
    • construction of gender in and throughout language use
    • gender-specific word formation (sociolect und sociolectal factors)
  • Lexicography:
    • mono- and bilingual dictionaries in Russian and Polish
    • word formation and lexicography
    • challenges and tendencies in lexicography
    • intercultural lexicography
  • Applied linguistics:
    • equivalence
    • translation
    • terminology

Professional Experience:

  • since 02/2016 Assistant Professor at the Department of Slavonic Languages at the Vienna University of Economics and Business

    Courses
    Polish language class (A1-A2)

  • 01/2017 gave lecture (Probevortrag) in the context of the appointment procedure for the professorship in Slavonic Linguistics (Professur (W2) Slawistische Sprachwissenschaft) at the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena

  • 03/2016 requested as substitute professor (Vertretungsprofessur / Aleksander-Brückner-Professur) of Slavonic Studies / Slavonic Linguistics (Institut für Slawistik und Kaukasusstudien der Universität Jena, Aleksander-Brückner-Zentrum der Universität Halle) for the summer semester 2016, areas: Polish and Russian linguistics – not accepted

  • 05/2012-02/2016 Assistant Professor of Slavonic linguistics at the Department of Slavonic Studies of the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck

    Courses
    Russian/ Slavonic Linguistics (all held in Russian)
    • Креативное словообразование между окказиональным и узуальным (proseminar, 2012/2013)
    • Фонетика, фонология и орфоэпия в русском языке (lecture with exercises, 2013)
    • Основы русского языковедения (proseminar, 2013/2014)
    • Gender Studies – Пол, род, гендер в языке. Введение в гендерную лингвистику (lecture with exercises, 2014)
    • Род и пол в грамматиках славянских языков (project-based seminar, 2014/2015)
    • Gender Studies – Пол и род в русских и польских грамматиках (lecture with exercises, 2015)
    • Введение в славянское языкознание (lecture, 2015/2016)

    Polish / Slavonic Linguistics (all held in Polish)
    • Academic style in Polish (lecture with exercises, 2015)

  • 10/2008-07/2012 DAAD-Lecturer at the Department of German Studies of the University of Opole (Poland)
    Courses (selection)
    • Contrastive Grammar (Polish-German)
    • Descriptive Grammar
    • Variety in Language and Non-Standards (Comparison of Polish and German)
    • Lexicography
    • Translation Studies
    • Text Analysis in Translation
    • Translation of Non-Specific Texts (Polish-German)
    • Translation of Technical Texts (economics, law) (Polish-German)
    • Terminology and Translation
    • Equivalence

  • since 2009 Taught German as a foreign language at the International Summer University of the Humboldt-University in Berlin (July-August)

  • since 06/2004 Taught seminars and workshops in translation, interpreting, intercultural communication, language teaching, and gender and queer studies
    • "Consecutive interpreting II – theoretical, practical, and intercultural aspects" (Winter Academy of interpreting, Goethe-Institut Almaty, 2011)
    • "Anglicisms as a topic in teaching German as a foreign language" (Day of Teachers for German, ZfA, Opole, 2010)
    • "Consecutive interpreting I – theoretical, practical and intercultural aspects" (Summer Academy of interpreting, Goethe-Institut Almaty, 2008)
    • "Introduction to consecutive and liaison interpretation" (Goethe-Institut Almaty, 2007)
    • "Technical text – terminology – technical translation – an introduction to translating business and legal texts" (Goethe-Institut Almaty, 2007)
    • "Translating and interpreting – a methodological and didactical overview" (Goethe-Institute Almaty, 2005)
    • "An introduction to translating and interpreting" (GTZ, 2005)
    • "Translation strategies" (Goethe-Institute Almaty, 2004)
    • "An introduction to translating and interpreting" (Goethe-Institute Almaty, 2004)

  • 09/2003-12/2009 Freelance translator and interpreter for Russian and Polish

  • 07/2005-08/2008 Teacher of German as a foreign language at a private language school (BSI private Sprachenschule GmbH) in Berlin (Germany)

  • 09/2003-05/2004 Language assistant at the Goethe-Institute in Almaty and at the Language Centres in Pavlodar (Kazakhstan) and Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)

  • 10/2002-07/2003 Tutor for German Grammar at the Institute of Slavonic Languages of the Department of Applied Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz in Germersheim

Professional and Research Activities:

  • 2016 Founder and head of the international research group SGQL of Slavonic Gender and Queer Linguistics

  • 2016 Founder and Chief-Editor of the book Series on Slavonic and East European Gender and Queer Linguistics (together with Alla Arkhangelska, Ursula Doleschal, Alla V. Kirilina, Olena P. Levchenko)

  • since 2016 Member of the consortium Research (AG Forschung) at the Department of Foreign Language Business Communication of the WU in Vienna

  • since 2016 Member of the mid-level-faculty (Mittelbauvertretung) of the Department of Foreign Language Business Communication of the WU in Vienna

  • 2014-2015 (with Dr Claudia Posch) Head of the research group "Gender and Queer Linguistics" at the Interfaculty Research Platform "Gender Studies: Identities – Discourses - Transformations" of the University of Innsbruck

    since 2016 Associates member of this research group

  • since 2016 Member of the Board of Reviewers of the Journal Półrocznik Językoznawczy TERTIUM

  • since 2016 Member of the Board of Reviewers of the Research Fund - Flanders (FWO) / Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen

  • since 2014 Member of the Programme Committee for conferences of the Lviv National Polytechnic

  • since 2014 Member of the Board of Reviewers for the Journal Styles of Communication (ed. by Camelia M. Cmeciu/ Piotr P. Chruszczewski)

  • since 2014 Member of the Editorial Board and Board of Reviewers of the Journal Convivium – Germanistisches Jahrbuch Polen (ed. by Gudrun Heidemann, Joanna Jabłkowska, Beata Mikołajczyk)

  • since 2013 Member of the Committee for Sociolinguistics of the International Committee of Slavicists

  • since 2012 Member of the Board of Reviewers of the Academic Journal of Modern Philology (ed. by Piotr P. Chruszczewski)

Visiting Professor and Teaching Assignments:

  • 6-15 May 2017 Ljubljana / Slovenia, Univerza v Ljubljani, Filozofska fakulteta, Oddelek za prevajalstvo (Erasmus Programme "Staff Mobility")

  • 1-30 September 2015 Edmonton / Canada, University of Alberta, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies

  • 29 April-03 May 2013 Milan / Italy, Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze della Mediazione Linguistica e di Studi Interculturali (Erasmus Programme "Staff Mobility")

Organisation of Conferences:

  • 21-24 March 2018 Language Policies in the Light of Anti-Discrimination and Political Correctness: Tendencies and Changes in the Slavonic Languages” – International Symposium, Vienna (concept, organisation, chair)

  • 21-23 October 2016 Between Past and Future – Slavonic Gender Linguistics at a Crossroads – International Symposium and Constitutive meeting of the international research group on Slavonic Gender and Queer Linguistics, Vienna (concept, organisation, chair)

  • 1-4 October 2014 Language as a Constitutive Element of a Gendered Society – Tendencies, Perspectives, and Possibilities in Slavonic Languages (Sprache als konstituierendes Element einer gegenderten Gesellschaft – Entwicklungen, Perspektiven und Möglichkeiten in den slawischen Sprachen) International Gender Conference, Innsbruck (concept, organisation, chair)

  • 9-10 November 2012 Conference and General Meeting of the Austrian Association of Slavists, Innsbruck (co-organisation)

  • 18-20 November 2011 Bilingualism: Challenges and Chances (Zweisprachigkeit als Herausforderung und Chance) International Conference, Opole/ Kamień Śląski (concept, organisation, co-chair with Prof Dr Maria Katarzyna Lasatowicz)

Sections on Conferences:

  • 28-29 August 2015 Bilingual Lexikography between Tradition and Innovation (Zweisprachige Lexikografie zwischen Tradition und Innovation) on the XIII Congress of the International Association of German Studies: “German Studies between Tradition and Innovation”, 24.-30.08.2015, Shanghai (concept, organisation, chair)

Academic Events and Workshops:

  • Workshop: Developing and Using Corpora: Slavonic and Non-Slavonic Aspects (Erstellung und Nutzung von Korpora: slawistische und nicht-slawistische Aspekte)
    • held by Prof. Dr. Marek Łaziński (Warsaw)
    • WU Vienna, 23-24 March 2017 (concept, organisation together with Prof. Dr. Nadine Thielemann)

  • Workshop: Research in Polish Linguistics
    • with papers by Prof. Dr. Alicja Nagórko (Berlin), Prof. Dr. Imke Mendoza (Salzburg), Dr. Jan Fellerer (Oxford)
    • University of Innsbruck, 12.03.2015, (concept, organisation, chair) Please find more information here

  • Week of Russian Language, History, and Culture
    • University of Innsbruck, 19.-23.11.2012 (concept, organisation, chair together with Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Ohnheiser) Please find more information here

  • Exhibition of books donated by the House of the Russian Abroad (Moscow)
    • University of Innsbruck, opening: 09.10.2012, exhibition: 09.10.-31.11.2012 (concept, organisation, chair together with Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Ohnheiser) Please find more information here

Research activities abroad:

  • 05/2017 University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

  • 10/2015 RSHU Moscow and Moscow Institute of Linguistics

  • 08-09/2015 University of Alberta (Canada)

  • 05/2015 University of Glasgow and University of Edinburgh

  • 09/2013 RSHU Moscow

Acquisition of Third Party Funding:

  • 2016 Vice-Rectorate for Research of the WU Vienna (VR Forschung der WU Wien) – Project: Gender and Ideology in Russian and Polish Grammar Books (Geschlecht und Ideologie in russischen und polnischen Grammatiken); low-budget project for research staff of the WU Vienna (Förderung von Kleinprojekten für WU-Assistent/inn/en) (Duration 2017)

  • 2014 TWF – Tyrolean Science Fund – Project: Gender in Russian and Polish Grammar (Duration of the project: 2015)

  • 2014 Polish Institute Vienna, State Tyrol, Innsbruck City, Women of the Tyrolean Green Party – Conference: Language as a Constitutive Element of a gendered Society – Tendencies, Perspectives, and Possibilities in Slavonic languages, 1-4 October 2014, Innsbruck

  • 2014 ÖFG – Austrian Research Association for joining the IGALA 8 (8th International Gender and Language Association Conference), 5-70 June 2014, Vancouver

Memberships:

  • since 2016 international research group on Slavonic Gender and Queer linguistics (initiator and head)

  • since 2014 research group "Gender and Queer Linguistics" at the Interfaculty Research Platform "Gender Studies: Identities – Discourses – Transformations" of the University of Innsbruck

  • since 2014 International Gender and Language Association (IGALA)

  • since 2013 Committee for Sociolinguistics of the International Committee of Slavists

  • since 2013 Interfaculty Research Platform "Gender Studies: Identities – Discourses - Transformations" of the University of Innsbruck

  • since 2013 Gender Association (Fachgesellschaft Gender)

  • since 2013 Austrian Association of Gender Studies (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Geschlechterforschung)

  • since 2012 Austrian Association of Slavists (Österreichischer Slawistenverband)

  • since 2009 German Association of Slavists (Deutscher Slavistenverband)

  • since 2009 Association of Applied Linguistics (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik)

Doctoral Dissertation and Education:

  • 10/2003-05/2009 Wrote and completed doctoral dissertation at the FASK Germersheim
    • Title:
      Präponeme und Präponemkonstrukte im Russischen, Polnischen und Deutschen. Zur Terminologie, Morphologie und Semantik einer Wortbildungseinheit und eines produktiven Kompositionstypus (published in 2010 by Peter Lang)
    • Supervisors:
      Prof Dr Erika Worbs (Germersheim), Prof Dr Erika Günther (Berlin)

  • 10/1998-03/2003 Studied Translation Studies (Russian and Polish), additional subjects: economics and law, at the FASK Germersheim of the Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz Diploma in Translation Studies
    • Thesis:
      Neologismen im Russischen und Polnischen im Vergleich zum Deutschen – Kongruenzen und Divergenzen in der modernen Wortbildung
    • Supervisor:
      Prof Dr Erika Worbs

Volunteer and Community Work:

  • 2016 Teaching German as a Foreign Language for refugees at the WU Vienna

  • since 2014 Support the Youth Network Lambda

  • 2003-2006 Wrote for the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung in Kazakhstan to support the German minority (topics: German language and culture)

  • 01/2005-11/2005 Taught German as a foreign language within the project German for refugees, a project which supported the social integration of asylum applicants

Community Service:

  • 08/1997- 08/1998 Hospital Parkklinik Kiel

Stays Abroad and language courses:

  • 08/2002 and 08/1999 Received scholarship for participating in the intensive language course for polonists in Warsaw

  • 1995-1998 Participated in language courses in Kiev, Arkhangelsk, and Moscow

  • 05/1998-10/1998 Worked as a Russian city guide in Kiel

  • 1997 Obtained Certificate of Russian

Language Skills:

  • German mother tongue

  • Slavonic Languages
    • Russian excellent
    • Polnish excellent
    • Czech good (reading and listening comprehension)
    • Bulgarian basic

  • Other Languages
    • English advanced
    • French average
    • Spanish basic

Computer Skills:

  • MS-Word, MS-Excel, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Firefox, Dreamweaver, Outlook (constantly using)

  • AntConc

  • Front Page, HTML (basic skills)

Special Interests:

  • Literature, art, film, music, travelling, sports, photography, cooking