Michelle Waldispühl
Senior Lecturer
Department of Languages andAbout Michelle Waldispühl
Background
- Senior lecturer/associate professor, German linguistics and language acquisition, GU (2015-)
- Earlier employed as a lecturer and researcher at the universities of Zurich and Bern and the universities of teacher education in Zug and Zurich (Switzerland)
PhD in German linguistics, University of Zurich (2013); Habilitation in German linguistics and language acquisition, University of Gothenburg (2019); Diploma in Primary Education, teacher-training college Luzern (2000)
Research interests
- Historical sociolinguistics
- Multilingualism and language contact
- Grapholinguistics
- Deutsch als Fremdsprache, second/foreign language acquisition
- Onomastics
- Runology
- Historical cryptology
I initiated and coordinate the seminar series Writing and Society and the Language in Society research area at the Department of Languages and Literatures.
Ongoing research
- Variation and contact in historical personal names (PI, 2019-2022, funded by the Swedish Research Council, grant-number 2018-01556)
- DECRYPT: Decryption of historical manuscripts (2018–2024, co-PI, PI: Beáta Megyesi, funded by the Swedish Research Council, grant-number 2018-06074)
- History, Identity, and Linguistic Diversity (HILD), connected research community incubator, EUTOPIA European University (2022-)
Earlier projects
- Promoting Learner Autonomy in Higher Education, 2012-2014, PI, University of Teacher Education Zug in collaboration with SEEU Tetovo, North Macedonia, project funded by the foundation éducation 21, Education for Sustainable Development
- Techniken und Praktiken mittelalterlicher kontinentalgermanischer Schriftlichkeit, 2005-2011, PI: Prof. Dr. Elvira Glaser and Prof. Dr. Ludwig Rübekeil, NCCR Mediality, 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
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, language skills and language acquisition, and supervise students within the programme for German studies and the teacher training programme (German as a foreign language).
Teaching projects
- Historisk sociolingvistik, interdisciplinary national MA course (co-PI)
- Multilingualism and Diversity, connected learning community at EUTOPIA European University (member)
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Die Verbreitung christlicher Rufnamen im mittelalterlichen Norden im Licht der Reichenauer
Überlieferung
Michelle Waldispühl
Mirjam Marti Heinzle & Luzius Thöny (Eds.), Swe gameliþ ist. Studien zur vergleichenden germanischen Sprachwissenschaft - 2023 -
Historical Language Models in Cryptanalysis: Case Studies on English and
German
Beáta Megyesi, Justyna Sikora, Filip Fornmark, Michelle Waldispühl, Nils Kopal, Vasily Mikhalev
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Historical Cryptology HistoCrypt 2023 - 2023 -
What is the Code for the Code? Historical Cryptology
Terminology
Vasily Mikhalev, Nils Kopal, Bernhard Esslinger, Michelle Waldispühl, Benedek Láng, Beáta Megyesi
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Historical Cryptology HistoCrypt 2023 - 2023 -
A User Perspective on HTR methods for the Automatic Transcription of Rare Scripts: The Case of Codex
Runicus
Mohamed Ali Souibgui, Asma Bensalah, Jialuo Chen, Alicia Fornés, Michelle Waldispühl
ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage - 2023 -
Personal names in medieval libri vitæ as a sociolinguistic
resource
Michelle Waldispühl, Christine Wallis
Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics - 2023 -
Keys with nomenclatures in the early modern
Europe
Beáta Megyesi, Crina Tudor, Benedek Láng, Anna Lehofer, Nils Kopal, Karl de Leeuw, Michelle Waldispühl
Cryptologia - 2022 -
Review of: "Project-Based Learning for Graduate Students in Digital Humanities", Thomas Augst & Deena
Engel
Michelle Waldispühl
Qeios - 2022 -
What Was Encoded in Historical Cipher Keys in the Early Modern
Era?
Beáta Megyesi, Crina Tudor, Benedek Láng, Anna Lehofer, Nils Kopal, Michelle Waldispühl
Carola Dahlke and Beáta Megyesi (eds.). Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Historical Cryptology HistoCrypt 2022, 20-22 June 2022, Amsterdam - 2022 -
Deciphering three diplomatic letters sent by Maximilian II in
1575
Nils Kopal, Michelle Waldispühl
Cryptologia - 2022 -
Kryptische Propaganda. Entschlüsselt: Briefe von Kaiser Maximilian
II.
Nils Kopal, Michelle Waldispühl
C't : Magazin für Computer-Technik - 2022 -
Two Encrypted Diplomatic Letters Sent by Jan Chodkiewicz to Emperor Maximilian II in
1574-1575
Nils Kopal, Michelle Waldispühl
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Historical Cryptology HistoCrypt 2021. 20-22 June, 2022, Amsterdam / Editor Carola Dahlke - 2021 -
Namn i skrift. Names in Writing. Handlingar från NORNAs 48:e symposium i Göteborg den 29–30 november
2018
Maria Löfdahl, Michelle Waldispühl, Lena Wenner
2020 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Roman and Runic in the Anglo-Saxon Inscriptions at Monte Sant’Angelo: A Sociolinguistic
Approach
Michelle Waldispühl
Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies - 2020 -
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 -
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 -
Die Liste als Ordnungsmedium in mittelalterlichen Libri
vitae
Michelle Waldispühl
LiLi: Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik - 2019 -
Att stava ord – förr och
nu
Michelle Waldispühl
Sånt vi bara gör. Jenny Nilsson, Susanne Nylund Skog och Fredrik Skott (red.) - 2019 -
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 -
‚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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Promoting Learner Autonomy in Higher
Education
Brikena Xhaferri, Michelle Waldispühl, Brigit Eriksson-Hotz, Gëzim Xhaferri
2015 -
Stadtwandelung. The somewhat different sightseeing tour (English
version)
Michelle Waldispühl, Jonna Truniger
www.stadtwandelung.ch (Web-Application) - 2015 -
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 -
Dialektologie als Unterrichtsgegenstand auf Sekundarstufe
II
Matthias Friedli, Michelle Waldispühl
Deutschblätter - 2014 -
Runes in Action – Two South Germanic Inscriptions and the Notion of a “Literate” Epigraphic
Culture
Michelle Waldispühl
Futhark: International Journal of Runic Studies - 2014 -
Neues zu den Runeninschriften von Eichstetten, Schwangau, Steindorf und Neudingen-Baar
II
Michelle Waldispühl, Martin Graf
Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik - 2013 -
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 -
Schreibpraktiken und Schriftwissen in südgermanischen Runeninschriften. Zur Funktionalität epigraphischer
Schriftverwendung
Michelle Waldispühl
2013 -
Stadtwandelung. Orte im Wandel entdecken – ein Podcast-Rundgang durch
Zürich
Michelle Waldispühl, Bettina Schöller, Carolina Morgan-Grap
www.stadtwandelung.ch - 2013 -
Editorial
Michelle Waldispühl, Britta Juska-Bacher, Ursula Ritzau, Jacqueline Scherer
Linguistik online - 2013 -
English Keywords in Old Norse
Literature
Hans-Peter Naumann, Michelle Waldispühl
Sarah Chevalier and Thomas Honegger (eds.). Words, Words, Words: Philology and Beyond - 2012 -
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 -
LautSchriftSprache. Beiträge zur vergleichenden historischen
Graphematik
Michelle Waldispühl, Elvira Glaser, Annina Seiler
2011 -
Sprachland. Sprachlehrmittel für die
Mittelstufe
Michelle Waldispühl, Elsbeth Büchel, Ursina Gloor, al. et
2010