Michelle Waldispühl
About Michelle Waldispühl
Background
I joined the Department of Languages and Literatures in 2015 as a senior lecturer in German Linguistics and Language Education. Before that, I worked at the universities of Zurich and Bern and the universities of teacher education in Zug and Zurich (Switzerland). I wrote my doctoral thesis on Continental runic inscriptions at the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) "Mediality – Historical Perspectives" based at the University of Zurich, where I also worked as a research fellow for public outreach.
Research
My general research interests include Germanic language history – especially runology, the linguistics of historical writing, language contact and multilingualism, phonology and onomastics – and the learning and teaching of German as a second language. In my historical linguistic studies, I pursue an interdisciplinary approach in which I aim to combine philological and structural linguistic analysis with sociolinguistic and cultural-historical perspectives. Hence, I strive to embed the historical linguistic data in a broader cultural context.
I initiated and coordinate the seminar series Writing and Society and the Language in Society research area together with Johan Järlehed at the Department of Languages and Literatures.
In the year 2020 I am a guest researcher at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages at the University of Oslo.
Ongoing research projects
Variation and contact in historical personal names (PI, 2019-2022, funded by the Swedish Research Council, grant-number 2018-01556) This project investigates which strategies are employed when North Germanic personal names are adapted to medieval German, French and Latin in multilingual contexts. It aims at surveying the variation patterns evident in the adaptations and seeks to develop a theoretical model that explains why different strategies were used. As part of the project, ca. 1000 North Germanic names recorded in manuscripts on the Continent during the 1000-1300s, will be edited in the openly accessible online-database NordiCon which is developed in collaboration with Språkbanken. The database combines formally interpreted and richly interlinked onomastic data with digitized versions of the medieval manuscripts and information on the name tokens' context.
DECRYPT: Decryption of historical manuscripts (2018–2024, co-PI, PI: Beáta Megyesi, funded by the Swedish Research Council, grant-number 2018-06074) The aim of the DECRYPT-project is to establish a new cross-disciplinary scientific field of Historical Cryptology by bringing the expertise of the different disciplines together for collecting data, exchanging methods for faster progress to decode and contextualize historical encrypted manuscripts. The project will result in an openly accessible web-service with thousands of encrypted manuscripts, encryption keys and tools for (semi)-automatic decryption. We focus on the development of software tools for automatic analysis allowing users to decrypt various types of encrypted documents from our history on-line. Additionally, we will provide a large collection of historical texts from different time periods and language models for 15 European languages in a standardized format allowing search and studies of language variation and change over time.
Completed research projects
- „Techniken und Praktiken mittelalterlicher kontinentalgermanischer Schriftlichkeit”, 2005-2011, PI: Prof. Dr. Elvira Glaser and Prof. Dr. Ludwig Rübekeil, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Zurich
- “Sprachland. Lehrmittel für die Mittelstufe”, 2007–2009, PI: Elsbeth Büchel and Ursina Gloor, University of Teacher Education Zurich
- „Promoting Learner Autonomy in Higher Education“, 2012-2014, PI, University of Teacher Education Zug in collaboration with SEEU Tetovo, North Macedonia.
Teaching
I have taught university courses at undergraduate, Master’s and PhD level (subjects: German, Scandinavian and English linguistics, medieval studies, language teaching and education, cultural studies ) and also have experience as a primary school teacher. At the University of Gothenburg, I teach undergraduate and Master’s courses, both on campus and online, in linguistics and language skills, and supervise students within the programme for German studies and the teacher training programme (German as a foreign language).
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Introduction
Michelle Waldispühl, Maria Löfdahl, Lena Wenner
Löfdahl, Maria, Waldispühl, Michelle & Wenner, Lena. Namn i skrift. Names in Writing. Göteborg: Meijerbergs institut för svensk etymologisk forskning - 2020-01-01 -
Namn i skrift. Names in
Writing.
Maria Löfdahl, Michelle Waldispühl, Lena Wenner
- 2020-01-01 -
Decryption of historical manuscripts: the DECRYPT
project
Beáta Megyesi, Bernhard Esslinger, Alicia Fornés, Nils Kopal, Benedek Láng, George Lasry, Karl de Leeuw, Eva Pettersson, Arno Wacker, Michelle Waldispühl
Cryptologia - 2020-01-01 -
Material Philology Meets Digital Onomastic Lexicography: The NordiCon Database of Medieval Nordic Personal Names in Continental
Sources
Michelle Waldispühl, Dana Dannélls, Lars Borin
Proceedings of The 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Marseille, 11–16 May 2020 / editors: Nicoletta Calzolari... [et. al.] - 2020-01-01 -
Roman and Runic in the Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions at Monte Sant’Angelo: A Sociolinguistic
Approach
Michelle Waldispühl
Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies - 2020-01-01 -
Historische Rufnamen im Kontakt. Integration der altisländischen Pilgernamen auf der Reichenau in die mittelhochdeutsche
Schreibsprache
Michelle Waldispühl
Luise Kempf, Damaris Nübling and Mirjam Schmuck, Linguistik der Eigennamen. (Linguistik – Impulse & Tendenzen, 88) - 2020-01-01 -
Review of Epigraphy in an Intermedial Context. Eds. Alessia Bauer, Elise Kleivane, and Terje Spurkland. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2018. 216 pp. ISBN
978-1-84682-716-7
Michelle Waldispühl
Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies - 2020-01-01 -
Die Liste als Ordnungsmedium in mittelalterlichen Libri
vitae
Michelle Waldispühl
LiLi: Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik - 2019-01-01 -
Att stava ord – förr och
nu
Michelle Waldispühl
Sånt vi bara gör. Jenny Nilsson, Susanne Nylund Skog och Fredrik Skott (red.) - 2019-01-01 -
Alemannische Wortbildung zwischen Schreib- und Sprechsprache. Richtungsadverbien in Konrad Klausers 'Sylvula formularum quotidiani sermonis'
(1562)
Michelle Waldispühl
Nievergelt, Andreas, Rübekeil, Ludwig. ‚athe in palice, athe in anderu sumeuuelicheru stedi‘. Raum und Sprache. Festschrift für Elvira Glaser zum 65. Geburtstag - 2019-01-01 -
‚Deutsch‘ oder ‚nordgermanisch’? Personennamen im Reichenauer Verbrüderungsbuch vor dem Hintergrund von Sprachkontakt und
Mehrsprachigkeit.
Michelle Waldispühl
Benjamin Scheller, Christian Hoffarth (Eds.), Ambiguität und die Ordnungen des Sozialen im Mittelalter - 2018-01-01 -
Medieval Libri vitæ as a source for historical sociolinguistic research. Questions and methodological
issues
Michelle Waldispühl, Christine Wallis
HiSoN conference. "Making Waves in Historical Sociolinguistics", 30 May–1 June 2018, Leiden - 2018-01-01 -
Graphematische Variation im mehrsprachigen Verschriftungskontext: Nordische Pilgernamen im Reichenauer
Verbrüderungsbuch
Michelle Waldispühl
Annual conference of the CEES and 61st Kreutzwald Days conference "Variation in language, literature, folklore, and music" December 7–8, 2017, at the University of Tartu and the Estonian Literary Museum, Tartu, Estonia. - 2017-01-01 -
Flerspråkiga medeltida pilgrimer? En kontakt-onomastisk pilotstudie av de nordiska personnamnen från
Reichenau
Michelle Waldispühl
Namn som kjelder : rapport frå Den sekstande nordiske namneforskarkongressen på Jæren folkehøgskule , Kleppe 8. - 11. juni 2016 / redigert av Tom Schmidt og Inge Særheim - 2017-01-01 -
Schrift im Gespräch. Medientheoretische Überlegungen zur historischen
Schriftinterpretation
Michelle Waldispühl
Paola Cotticelli-Kurras; Alfredo Rizza (Eds.). Variation within and among writing systems. Concepts and methods in the analysis of ancient written documents - 2016-01-01 -
Sprachförderung von Lehramtsstudierenden mit Deutsch als Zweitsprache – Fallbeispiel Pädagogische Hochschule Zug,
Schweiz
Michelle Waldispühl
Promoting Learner Autonomy in Higher Education / eds. Brikena Xhaferri; Michelle Waldispühl; Brigit Eriksson - 2015-01-01 -
Students’ and Teachers’ Beliefs about Learner Autonomy at SEEU Tetovo, Macedonia and PH Zug, Switzerland: A Comparative
Study
Brikena Xhaferri, Michelle Waldispühl, Gëzim Xhaferri, Brigit Eriksson – Hotz
Promoting Learner Autonomy in Higher Education / eds. Brikena Xhaferri; Michelle Waldispühl; Brigit Eriksson- Hotz - 2015-01-01 -
Multilingualism in the Context of Scandinavian Pilgrimage. The Onomastic Evidence in Continental
Sources
Michelle Waldispühl
The Sixteenth Saga Conference. 9–15 August 2015. Zurich and Basel, Switzerland. - 2015-01-01 -
Promoting Learner Autonomy in Higher
Education
Brikena Xhaferri, Michelle Waldispühl, Brigit Eriksson-Hotz, Gëzim Xhaferri
- 2015-01-01 -
Stadtwandelung. The somewhat different sightseeing tour (English
version)
Michelle Waldispühl, Jonna Truniger
www.stadtwandelung.ch (Web-Application) - 2015-01-01 -
The Grammar of Medieval Scandinavian Personal Names in Continental
Manuscripts
Michelle Waldispühl
22nd International Conference on Historical Linguistics. 27-31 July 2015. Naples, Italy. - 2015-01-01 -
Dialektologie als Unterrichtsgegenstand auf Sekundarstufe
II
Matthias Friedli, Michelle Waldispühl
Deutschblätter - 2014-01-01 -
Runes in Action – Two South Germanic Inscriptions and the Notion of a “Literate” Epigraphic
Culture
Michelle Waldispühl
Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies - 2014-01-01 -
Neues zu den Runeninschriften von Eichstetten, Schwangau, Steindorf und Neudingen-Baar
II
Michelle Waldispühl, Martin Graf
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik - 2013-01-01 -
Methoden der Linguistik im Fokus: Eine Auswahl projektbasierter Beispiele. Spotlight on Methods in Linguistics: A Collection of Project-Based
Examples
Britta Juska-Bacher, Ursula Ritzau, Jacqueline Scherer, Michelle Waldispühl
- 2013-01-01 -
Schreibpraktiken und Schriftwissen in südgermanischen Runeninschriften. Zur Funktionalität epigraphischer
Schriftverwendung
Michelle Waldispühl
- 2013-01-01 -
Stadtwandelung. Orte im Wandel entdecken – ein Podcast-Rundgang durch
Zürich
Michelle Waldispühl, Bettina Schöller, Carolina Morgan-Grap
www.stadtwandelung.ch - 2013-01-01 -
Editorial
Michelle Waldispühl, Britta Juska-Bacher, Ursula Ritzau, Jacqueline Scherer
Linguistik online - 2013-01-01 -
English Keywords in Old Norse
Literature
Hans-Peter Naumann, Michelle Waldispühl
Sarah Chevalier and Thomas Honegger (eds.). Words, Words, Words: Philology and Beyond - 2012-01-01 -
Methodische Überlegungen zur Rekonstruktion der Schriftverwendung bei den südgermanischen
Runeninschriften
Michelle Waldispühl
Glaser, Elvira; Seiler, Annina, Waldispühl, Michelle (Hrsg.). LautSchriftSprache. Beiträge zur vergleichenden historischen Graphematik - 2011-01-01 -
LautSchriftSprache. Beiträge zur vergleichenden historischen
Graphematik
Michelle Waldispühl, Elvira Glaser, Annina Seiler
- 2011-01-01 -
Sprachland. Sprachlehrmittel für die
Mittelstufe
Michelle Waldispühl, Elsbeth Büchel, Ursina Gloor, al. et
- 2010-01-01