Profile

Sebastian Müller is a doctoral student, research and teahingc assistant under Prof. Dr. Eva Martha Eckkrammer and Prof. Dr. Andre Klump in the field of Romance Linguistics and Media Studies at the Trier University.
Sebastian Müller studied his Bachelor's degree in Romance Languages, Literatures and Media (Spanish and Italian, and to a lesser extent French) at the University of Mannheim from 2018 to 2023 and spent a year abroad at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia, from 2021 to 2022. He completed his Master's degree in Romance Studies: Language, Literature, Culture (Spanish & Italian) at the Trier University in 2024. During his studies, he worked for two years as a student assistant in the Department of Romance Languages and Media Studies at the University of Mannheim. In addition, he taught the compulsory tutorial 'Introduction to Spanish Linguistics and Media Studies' as a tutor. From 2023 to 2024 he was a research assistant in Romance Linguistics and Media Studies at the University of Mannheim and completed a lectureship there in 2024. Since 2023, he has been a research assistant in Romance Linguistics and Media Studies at the Trier University and has been doing his doctorate on the Creole language Papiamentu in social media since 2024. 

Academic activities

Vita

  • Since 10/2024  
    PhD Student in Romance Philology
  • Since 09/2023
    Research assistant in the Department of Romance Linguistics and Media Studies at the Trier University
  • 10/2023-09/2024
    Master of Arts in Romance Studies: Language, Literature, Culture (Spanish & Italian) at the Trier University 
  • 03/2024
    Research stay on Curaçao
  • 02/2024-05/2024
    Lecturer for Italian Linguistics and Media Studies at the University of Mannheim
  • 08/2023-01/2024
    Research assistant in the Department of Romance Linguistics and Media Studies at the University of Mannheim
  • 09/2022-07/2023
    Student assistant and tutor in the Department of Romance Linguistics and Media Studies at the University of Mannheim
  • 08/2022
    Basque Summer Tutorial in Language Documentation in Larrau, France 
  • 10/2021-07/2022
    Year abroad at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia
  • 09/2020-07/2021
    Student assistant and tutor in the Department of Romance Linguistics and Media Studies at the University of Mannheim
  • 09/2018-07/2023
    Bachelor of Arts Romance Languages, Literatures and Media (Spanish, Italian and French) at the University of Mannheim

Research interests

  • Sociolinguistics
  • Multimodal media linguistics
  • Language policies
  • Language use on social media
  • (Romance) regional and minority languages
  • Language contact
  • Creole languages

Teaching

Summer semester 2025

  • Seminar "Hashtags, memes and chats: Hispanic media linguistics"

Winter semester 2024/2025

  • Seminar "Between mountains and borders: The linguistic area of the Pyrenees" (Sp, Trier University; Seminar in form of a field trip to the Pyrenees)

Summer semester 2024

  • Proseminar/seminar "Italian linguistic landscapes worldwide: migration, language contact and culture" (It, Trier University)
  • Proseminar "Italian outside Italy: Migration, Variation, Media and Identity" (It, University of Mannheim)

Winter semester 2023/2024

  • Compulsory tutorial "Introduction to Spanish Linguistics and Media Studies" (Sp, University of Mannheim)
  • Proseminar "European Language Policy" (Fr-It-Sp, University of Mannheim)
  • Proseminar/seminar "Language policy and multilingualism in Italy - yesterday and today" (It, Trier University)

Summer semester 2023

  •  Compulsory tutorial "Introduction to Spanish Linguistics and Media Studies" (Sp, University of Mannheim)

Winter semester 2022/2023

  • Compulsory tutorial "Introduction to Spanish Linguistics and Media Studies" (Sp, University of Mannheim)

Summer semester 2021

  • Compulsory tutorial "Introduction to Spanish Linguistics and Media Studies" (Sp, University of Mannheim)

Winter semester 2020/2021

  • Compulsory tutorial "Introduction to Spanish Linguistics and Media Studies" (Sp, University of Mannheim)

Publications

In preparation:

  • Müller, Sebastian (2024): "Internet Memes in Minderheitensprachen – Spracheinstellungen gegenüber dem Ladinischen in den Sozialen Medien" 
  • Chagas, Andrea/Hilß, Hannah/Müller, Sebastian (2024): "Neural machine translation and a queer perspective on gender bias – A qualitative study of how different strategies of écriture inclusive are translated into German by DeepL and Google Translate", in: The Mouth. Out of the Norm?! Producing, Evaluating, and Perpetuating Gender Difference through Language Practice

Talks