Dr. Volker Eisenlauer

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS           PUBLICATIONS

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Since 09/18                   
Educational media lab officer, Faculty of Human Sciences, University der Bundeswehr, Munich

01/13 bis 12/16                   

Post doc position and lecturer, Department of English and American Studies, University of Salzburg, Austria

2012                   
PhD, University of Augsburg, Germany, title of PhD thesis: The true colours of Facebook - a critical hypertext analysis of social media                                 

2006 – 2012                    
Research Assistant and PhD candidate (wiss. Assistent), Interdisciplinary elite study programme ‚Ethik der der Textkulturen', University of Augsburg & Friedrichs-Alexander University Erlangen

2002 – 2004                    
MA in English Studies and Language Didactics, University of Augsburg

2000 – 2002                    
Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics, Macquarie University Sydney, Australia

1997 – 2000                    

State exam in pedagogical minors, Department of Teacher Education, University of Augsburg, Germany

 

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS (OUTSIDE ACADEMIA)

 10/16 – 09/18                    
Head of Research and Development at the Ed Tech company xStudy SE, München

2002 - 2005                   

Junior IT Consultant, introducing teaching materials for the Siemens intranet project work (UDC) at ICM Siemens, Munich, Germany

10/11 2000                    
Broadcast Trainee at Olympic Games Sydney 2000, ARD/ZDF, International Broadcast Centre, Sydney, Australia

 

GUEST LECTURES, CONTRACT TEACHING, OTHERS

Since 03/16                   

Contract Lecturerer, English and American Studies, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, AustriA

08/14                    
Guest lecturing at Langnet summer school, University of Turku, Finland

2012 – 2014                   
Guest Lecturing in English Studies and German as a Foreign Language, Université Omar Bongo, Gabon, Africa

2012 – 2013                   
Contract Lecturerer fort ext semiotics, Desing, Georg-Simon-Ohm Hochschule Nuremberg, Germany

2005 – 2006                    
Technical assistant, e-learning platform deutsch-uni.com, Institute German as a Foreign Language, LMU München

2000                    
Language assistant, German as a Foreign Language, Macquarie University, Australia

 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

30/03/2015          

Project application grant received from ‘Habilitationsforums Unterrichtsforschung’, University of Graz, Austria

30/11/2012          

Research award ‘best PhD thesis 2012’ received from University of Augsburg foundation

2008 – 2011          
Several travel grants received from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

 

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS AND COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

 10plus1 | Living Linguistics (Editorial Board),  Journal of Pragmatics (Guest Editor), Journal of Discourse and Communication (reviewer), Journal of Politeness (reviewer), Language, Behaviour, Culture (reviewer), Journal of Pragmatics (reviewer), International Association for Mobile Learning (member), Austrian Association of University, Teachers of English (member), International Pragmatics Association, (member), European Systemic Functional Linguistics (program committee member)

 

Publications

MONOGRAPHS & EDITED JOURNALS

Eisenlauer, Volker (2013/2015) A Critical Hypertext Analysis of Social Media. The True Colours of Facebook. London/New York: Continuum.

Eisenlauer, Volker & Styliani Karatza (2020) ed. Multimodal literacies: Media affordances, semiotic resources and discourse
communities Journal of Visual Literacy, Special Issue Vol. 39, 3-4. London: Taylor & Francis.

Eisenlauer, Volker, Maximiliane Frobenius & Cornelia Gerhardt (2014) ed. Participation framework revisited: (new) media and their audiences/users’ Journal of Pragmatics, Special Issue Vol. 72. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

 

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Eisenlauer, Volker (2020). The EFL-YouTube remix: Empowering multimodal and computational literacies for EFL purposes, Journal of Visual Literacy, Special Issue Vol. 39, 3-4: x-x.

Eisenlauer, Volker &  Styliani Karatza (2020). Multimodal literacies: Media affordances, semiotic resources and discourse
communities, Journal of Visual Literacy, Special Issue Vol. 39, 3-4: x-x.

Eisenlauer, Volker (2020). Digital literacies in virtual reality learning contexts, in T. Jung, C. M. tom Dieck, & P. A. Rauschnabel (eds.), Augmented and virtual reality: Changing realities in a dynamic world. Heidelberg: Springer. 269-28.

Eisenlauer, Volker (2017) Social Network Sites, in Bublitz W. & C. Hofmann (eds.). Pragmatics of Social Media. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (Handbooks of Pragmatics).

Eisenlauer, Volker (2016) Facebook als multimodaler Gesamttext, in Klug N. & H. Stöckl (eds.). Handbuch Sprache im multimodalen Kontext. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter (Handbuch Sprachwissen 7).

Eisenlauer, Volker (2014). Multimodality in Mobile-Assisted Language Learning, in Kalz, M., Bayyurt, Y. & M. Specht (eds.). Mobile as Mainstream - Towards Future Challenges in Mobile Learning. Heidelberg: Springer. 328-338.

Eisenlauer, Volker (2014). Sample Analysis: Facebook, in Maier, C. & S. Norris (ed.). Texts, Images and Interactions: A Textbook of Multimodality. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Eisenlauer, Volker (2014). Facebook as a Third Author - (semi-)automated participation frameworks in Social Network Sites, in M. Frobenius, Eisenlauer, V. & C. Gerhardt (eds.). ‘Participation framework revisited: (new) media and their audiences/users’ Journal of Pragmatics, Special Issue Vol. 72. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 73-85.

Eisenlauer, Volker (2011). From ‘Poetry Albums’ to ‘Social Network Sites’ – Multimodality and social actions in ‘Personal Publishing’ texts, in O’Halloran, K. (ed.). Multimodal Representation and Knowledge, Routledge Studies in Multimodality Book Series. London: Routledge. 131-152.

Eisenlauer, Volker & Christian Hoffmann (2010). Once upon a blog ... Storytelling in weblogs, in Hoffmann, C. (ed.). Narrative Revisited: Telling a Story in the Age of Multimodal Media. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 79-108.

Eisenlauer, Volker & Stefan Scholz (2010). Narrativität und Bibeldidaktik.Ein sprachwissenschaftlicher Zugang zu biblischen Erzählungen, Praktische Theologie. Zeitschrift für Praxis in Kirche, Gesellschaft und Kultur 2010/1. 46-56.

Eisenlauer, Volker & Christian Hoffmann (2008). The metapragmatics of remediated text design, Information Design Journal 16/1: 1-18.

Eisenlauer, Volker & Stefan Scholz (2008). Hypertextualität als Interpretament der Bibel und ihrer Auslegung, in Wischmeyer, O. & Scholz S. (eds.). Die Bibel als Text. Beiträge zu einer textbezogenen Bibel-Hermeneutik. Tübingen, 69-96.

 

HANDBOOK ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

Eisenlauer, Volker (2013). ‘Social Semiotics‘, Synopsis article; in Kortmann, B. & J. Kabatek (eds). WSK  dictionary  on  "Theories and  Methods  in  Linguistics". (Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online). Berlin: de Gruyter.     

Eisenlauer, Volker (2009). ‘Hypertext‘, in Wischmeyer, O. et al. (Hgg.). Lexikon der Bibelhermeneutik. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter. 273-274.

Eisenlauer, Volker (2009). ‘Textsorte‘, in Wischmeyer, O. et al. (Hgg.). Lexikon der Bibelhermeneutik. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter. 594-595.

Eisenlauer, Volker (2006). ‘Masterman, Margaret (1910-1986)‘, in Brown, K. (ed). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2^nd ed., Oxford: Elsevier. Vol. 7. 538-539.

Eisenlauer, Volker & Wolfram Bublitz (2006). ‘Wegener, Philipp (1848-1916)‘,in Brown, Keith (ed.). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., Oxford: Elsevier, Vol. 13. 542-543.

 

DIGITALE LERNUMGEBUNGEN

101 idioms ~ knackfr.org      

Prototype of a language learning platform for acquisition of idiomatic expressions in English

module.org          
App for study planning and learning organization, in cooperation with the company xStudy SE