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Research Interests

Gender Studies, Feminist Criticism, & Queer Studies

Cognitive Approaches to Literature, Language, & Culture
Systemic Functional Linguistics

Postcolonial Criticism and (Indigenous) Australian narratives

Film narratology and multimodality

Academic CV

Education

10/2019 – 04/2022
Master of Arts (M. A.) "Linguistics and Literary Studies", RWTH Aachen University, Germany
focus modules: English linguistics and literary studies
interdisciplinary modules: neuropsychology; applied ethics

07/2017 - 10/2017
Guest auditor at the University of Sydney, Australia, and at Macquarie University, Australia

10/2014 – 09/2019
Bachelor of Arts (B. A.) "Teacher Training Secondary and Comprehensive Schools"
subjects: English, German, Educational Studies
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Academic Employment and Work Experience

Since 05/2022
Research Assistant at the Chair of Cognitive Literary Studies
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

10/2020 – 04/2022
(graduate) student research assistant
Chair of Cognitive Literary Studies
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

04/2020 – 03/2022
(graduate) student research assistant
project: TRICKLET (Translation Research in Corpora, Keystroke Logging & Eye-Tracking – funded by the DFG)
Chair of English Linguistics
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

04/2021 – 07/2021
(graduate) student teaching assistant
Tutorial: “Tutorial – Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies”
Chair of Cognitive Literary Studies
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

05/2020 – 07/2021
(graduate) student research assistant
Aachen Mentoring Model
Institute for English and American Studies (IfAAR)
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

01/2017 – 03/2020
(undergraduate) student research assistant
project: TRICKLET (Translation Research in Corpora, Keystroke Logging & Eye-Tracking – funded by the DFG)
Chair of English Linguistics
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
interruptions: 1 July 2017 - 5 November 2017; 1 October 2018 - 10 October 2018

2016 – 2017
Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
supervisor: Dr. Rebekah Wegener
duration: 6 months
project titled: 4M – Multimodal Markers for Meaning

2016
Internship as a secondary school teacher
Gymnasium Odenkirchen, Mönchengladbach, Germany
duration: 4 weeks

Theses

Schüller, Bianca. (2022). “I am woman. Hear me roar.”: The Representation of Female Villains in Disney Remakes, (unpublished Master thesis). RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

Schüller, Bianca. (2018). Understanding the Identification of Important Information in Academic Lectures: Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches, (unpublished Bachelor thesis). RWTH Aachen University, Germany.

Publications

Ude, J., Schüller, B., Wegener, R., & Cassens, J. (2018). A Pipeline for Extracting Multi-Modal Markers for Meaning in Lectures. In R. Wegener, J. Cassens, & A. Kofod-Petersen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Tenth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context, CEUR Workshop Proceedings (pp. 16-21). Aachen, Germany: CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Wegener, R., Schüller, B., & Cassens, J. (2017). Needing and Wanting in Academic Lectures: Profiling the academic lecture across context. In P. Chappell & J. S. Knox (Eds.), Transforming Contexts: Papers from the 44th International Systemic Functional Congress. (pp. 82-88). Wollongong, Australia.

Conference Presentations

2021

Schüller, B., & Neumann, S. (2021, Sept.). Is English more verbal than German? Evidence from a translation corpus. Paper presented at the 30th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2021), Sheffield, UK.

2019

Cassens, J., Wiek, T., Wegener, R., & Schüller, B. (2019, July). Academic Writing Support: The Sensate-System and an SFL Perspective. Paper presented at the 29th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2019), Leiria, Portugal.

2018

Wegener, R., Cassens, J., Ude, J., & Schüller, B. (2018, Sept.). A Pipeline for Extracting Multi-Modal Markers for Meaning in Lectures. Poster presented at LinC – Summer School and Workshop, Aachen, Germany.

Ude, J., Schüller, B., Wegener, R., & Cassens, J. (2018, July). A Contextualized Pipeline for Extracting Multi-Modal Markers for Meaning in Lectures. Paper presented at the Tenth International Workshop on Modelling and Reasoning in Context (MRC 2018) @ IJCAI 2018, Stockholm, Sweden.

Wegener, R., Cassens, J., & Schüller, B. (2018, July). Lexicogrammatical Patterning in Textual Triggers for Reader Emotion during Literary Text Reading. Paper presented at the 28th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2018), Pavia, Italy.

Schüller, B. (2018, July). Understanding the Identification of Important Information in Academic Lectures. Paper presented at the 28th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2018), Pavia, Italy.

2017

Schüller, B., Cassens, J., & Wegener, R. (2017, July). Needing and Wanting in Academic Lectures: Profiling the Academic Lecture across Contexts. Paper presented at the 44th International Systemic-Functional Congress (ISFC 2017), Wollongong, Australia.

Schüller, B., Cassens, J., & Wegener, R. (2017, July). Aligning Multi-Modal Markers for Importance in Academic Lectures. Paper presented at the 27th European Systemic Functional Linguistics Conference (ESFLC 2017), Salamanca, Spain.

Teaching Experience / List of Courses

Seminar: New Developments in Aboriginal Fiction (winter term 2022/2023) [online]
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Seminar: Indigenous Australian Narratives (summer term 2022) [online]
RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Tutorial: Introduction to Cognitive Literary Studies (summer term 2021) [online]
RWTH Aachen University, Germany