Stefanie Ullmann

Stefanie Ullmann is a Postdoctoral Research Associate on the project Giving Voice to Digital Democracies: The Social Impact of Artificially Intelligent Communications Technology, funded by the Humanities and Social Change International Foundation.

Stefanie studied English Language and Literature as well as Web Technology and holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Marburg in Germany. Her research interests and background are in functional linguistics, critical theory and discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, new media and communication technologies as well as the instrumentalisation of language in states of socio-political conflict and crisis. In her forthcoming monograph "Discourses of the Arab Revolutions in Media and Politics" (Routledge, 2021), she presents findings of a large-scale corpus study on metaphors used in the context of the 2011 revolutions.