Constanze

Tress

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Normalisation and deviance – subjectivities, bodies and affectivities
• Narrations of crises
• Conceptions and valorizations of ‘work’

STUDIES AND WORK

Since 10/2017 - Doctoral Researcher (PRIDE/FNR grant), University of Luxembourg
Doctoral Training Unit CALIDIE (“Capitalising on Linguistic Diversity in Education”)
Working title of doctoral thesis:
Constructions and Positionings of Young Apprentices in Vocational Education and Training in Luxembourg”

2017 - Master of Arts in Phonetics, Trier University
Title of Master thesis:
“The Poly-Functionality of Pulse Register. Evidence from Standard Austrian German”

2017 - Student assistant, Trier University
Formatting the volume Expanding the Lexicon. Linguistic Innovation, Morphological Productivity, and Ludicity (ed. by S. Arndt-Lappe, A. Braun, C. Moulin, E. Winter-Froemel), Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter.

2016 - Research student, Trier University
International Research Training Group (IRTG) “Diversity – Mediating Difference in Transcultural Spaces”

2013-2014 - Assistant to the lawyers, Brussels
Redeker Sellner Dahs

2012 - Magister Artium in French Philology, Cultural Studies and Business Administration, Humboldt University Berlin
Title of Magister thesis:
“C’est hyper-malin ou c’est hyper-pervers? Finanzkrisen-Narrationen als Ergebnis einer qualitativen Diskursanalyse”

2008-2012 - Assistant to the online editors, Berlin
Deutsche Welle

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, GUEST LECTURES

11.-14.09.2019 - 3rd DNC3-ALED: Discourse Studies Congress, “Knowledge and power in a polycentric world. Discourses across languages, cultures and space”, Université de Cergy-Pontoise/Paris-Seine, France.
Presentation: “Of capitalizable units and learners as market functions. Desires in Luxembourgish Reform discourse on Vocational education and training (VET)”

12.-14.09.2018 - 9th International conference of the Earli SIG 14, “Interaction, learning and professional development”, Symposium “Learning to work in the margins: interactional and discourse analytical perspectives” (chair: Ingrid de Saint-Georges), University of Geneva, Switzerland
Presentation: “…l’homme comme une machine en situation de recyclage permanent au service des entreprises - Problem representations of Luxembourgish Vocational Education and Training in legislative documents”

04.-07.09.2018 - EERA ECER 2018, “Inclusion and Exclusion, Resources for Educational Research?”, Free University Bolzano, Italy
Poster presentation: “Discursive Constructions of Young Apprentices in Vocational Education and Training in Luxembourgish Newspapers”

30.-31.08.2018 - Earli SIG 10&21 “Connecting Connected Minds: Capturing the relevance of social interaction and cultural diversities in a digitalized media ecology”, University of Luxembourg
Poster presentation “From School to Work: Representations and Lived Experience of Young Apprentices in Vocational Education and Training (VET)”

29.-30.06.2018 - Séminaire tri-national, University of Strasbourg
Presentation “From School to Work: Representations and Lived Experience of Multilingual Youth in Vocational Education and Training (VET) in Luxembourg”

26.05.2018 - Invited guest lecture, Master seminar on discriminatory discourse for students of German studies (lecturer: David Römer), summer term 2018, Trier University
Presentation “Fat acceptance und body positivity: der (sprachliche) Kampf gegen Gewichtsdiskriminierung"" [transl.: Fat acceptance and body positivity: the (linguistic) fight against weight-based discrimination]

02.12.2017 - Developing Pathways to Impact. A Training Workshop for Early Career Researchers in Bi-/Multilingualism and Education”, University of Westminster, London
Presentation of planned doctoral project

PUBLICATIONS

 (in prep.) “How to find the right 'measure'?: Challenges and ways forward with evaluation in heterogenous and multilingual learning environments” (co-authored with Ingrid de Saint-Georges, Gabriele Budach and Anastasia Badder). Special issue of the European Journal of Applied Linguistics.

""wenn du fett bist, dann boah […], dass es dich überhaupt noch gibt, dass du noch nicht tot bist“ – Der dickenfeindliche Diskurs und sprachkritische Empowerment-Strategien“. Aptum. Zeitschrift für Sprachkritik und Sprachkultur 13:3. 193-222.

TEACHING

Winter term 2019/20
Research camp: How to study language issues that matter?
Co-Teaching with Sari Pietikäinen, Gabriele Budach, Ingrid de Saint-Georges, Stephanie Hofmann, Maria Obojska and
University of Luxembourg, Master in Learning and Communication in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts

Summer term 2018/19

• Critical perspectives on health
  Co-teaching with Anastasia Badder
  University of Luxembourg, Master in Learning and Communication in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts
• Preparing a poster session on master thesis projects
  Co-teaching with Stephanie Hofmann and Jean-Marc Wagner
  University of Luxembourg, Master in Learning and Communication in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts

Winter term 2018/19

• Research camp: How to study language issues that matter?
  Co-Teaching with Sari Pietikäinen, Gabriele Budach, Ingrid de Saint-Georges, Sara Wilmes and Anastasia Badder
  University of Luxembourg, Master in Learning and Communication in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts

Summer term 2017/18

• Preparing a poster session on master thesis projects
  Co-teaching with Dany Weyer
  University of Luxembourg, Master in Learning and Communication in Multilingual and Multicultural Contexts

Winter term 2016/17

• Pronunciation training in German (level B1 and B2)
  University of Trier, Language Center
• Tutorial in Sociophonetics
  University of Trier, Master in Phonetics"