Dr. Marie-Louise Brunner is Project Leader for Business and Education at Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen gGmbH. She is also Co-Director of the InDi – Institute for International and Digital Communication at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld, Trier University of Applied Sciences.
After completing her bachelor's and master's degrees with a focus on English Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, she received her PdH with distinction from Saarland University. Her PhD thesis on "Understanding Intercultural Communication: Negotiating Meaning and Identities in English as a Lingua Franca Skype Conversations" explored the intersection of English Linguistics and Intercultural Communication and was published by the Springer imprint J.B. Metzler.
She has over ten years of professional experience in academia and in teaching, first as a graduate researcher at Saarland University (2014-2016) and at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld (2016-2022), then as a tandem-professor for Sustainability Communication at the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld (2022-2025). She also has an internationally recognized expertise in applied empirical research in the fields of Linguistics, Communication, and Cultural Studies, particularly in the areas of Intercultural Communication, Sustainability Communication, and Business Communication. She has presented her research findings at numerous international conferences (including ABC, BICLCE, IPrA, ISLE, Symposium Language in Webcare) and has published in a number of recognized, international, peer-reviewed journals (including Text & Talk, World Englishes, Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics) and edited volumes (including the handbook Research Methods for Digital Discourse Analysis).
Her research interests lie in the areas of Sustainability Communication in various business contexts, Business Communication on social media, communication strategies/optimization/concepts, intercultural communication, negotiation of identities and corporate identity, as well as language and food. One of her main methodological focus areas is Corpus-based Multimodal Discourse Analysis. She is also interested in the use of online media and intercultural approaches in teaching, as well as playful formats in the field of education for sustainable development.
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