Prof. Dr. Ulrike Schröder

Curriculum Vitae

Academic Career

since 2023

Full Professor/Professora Titular for German Studies (undergraduate program) and Linguistics (graduate program), Faculty of Letters (FALE), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

2014-2023

Associate Professor/Professora Associada for German Studies (undergraduate program) and Linguistics (graduate program), Faculty of Letters (FALE), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

2006-2014

Adjunct Professor/Professora Adjunta for German Studies (undergraduate program) and Linguistics (graduate program), Faculty of Letters (FALE), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

2003-2006

Lecturer/Visiting Professor for the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

2001-2003

Assistant Lecturer in Communication Science, Faculty of Humanities, University of Essen, Germany.

Academic Formation

2009-2012

Venia Legendi (Habilitation) in Communication Science, Faculty of Humanities, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.

2002-2003

Specialization in German as a Foreign Language, Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes/Open University of Hagen, Germany.

2000-2003

Ph.D. in Communication Science, Faculty of Humanities, University of Essen, Germany, including one research year in Brazil, DAAD - (German Academic Exchange Service).

1992-1998

M.A. in Communication Science, German Studies and Psychology, University of Essen, Germany.

Academic Fellowships

2023-2026

Research Grant of Brazilian-German Exchange Program PROBRAL, CAPES-DAAD (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel-German Academic Exchange Service), Brazil-Germany. Project: "The multimodal coordination of intercultural video-mediated interaction in pandemic and post-pandemic times".

2022-2025

Fellowship Program 'Productivity in Research' ('Bolsa de Produtividade - PQ'), CNPq - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico), Brazil. Project: "The multimodal coordination of intercultural video-mediated interaction in pandemic and post-pandemic times"

2020-2021

Senior Fellow at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Capes-PrINT programme - Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior), Germany.

2020

Senior Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, Capes-PrINT programme - Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior), USA.

2019-2021

Research Grant, project title "(Inter)cultural communication in interaction: Expansion and diversification of the NUCOI corpus" (coordination), program: 'Universal CNPq' - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico); project collaborators: Federal University of Pará (Brazil), University of Potsdam (Germany), University of Gießen (Germany).

2019-2020

Research Grant, project title: "Intercultural Communication in Interaction: Multimodal Approaches" (Principal Investigator), program: WUN - Worldwide Universities Network Research Development Fund, in cooperation with the University of Alberta (Canada), University of Leeds (Great Britain), University Sheffield (Great Britain), University of Potsdam (Germany).

2017-2021

Research Grant of long-term research collaboration, project title: "(Inter-)cultural key concepts at the interface of interaction, cognition an variation" (coordinated by Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Wolf and Prof. Dr. Ulrike Schröder) and institutional partnerschip with the University of Potsdam by the 'Research Group Linkage Programme', Humboldt-Foundation (Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung), Germany.

2017-2019

Fellowship 'Research Program Minas Gerais' ('Programa Pesquisador Mineiro - PPM'), Project: "(Inter-)cultural key concepts at the interface of interaction, cognition an variation" (2017-2019); FAPEMIG - The Minas Gerais State Research Foundation (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais), Brazil.

2015-2017

Research Fellowship 'Research Program Minas Gerais' ('Programa Pesquisador Mineiro - PPM') Project: "Intercultural communication in extended contacts: linguistic and (self-) reflexive processes" (2015-2017); FAPEMIG - The Minas Gerais State Research Foundation (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais), Brazil.

2015-2018

Capes-Humboldt Research Fellowship at the University of Münster, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and CAPES - Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) Germany.

Research Groups and Coordination/Supervision

Since 2014

Member of the Research Group CNPq: (Inter)linguistic, Cross-Cultural and Intercultural Pragmatics (Pragmática (inter)linguística, cross-cultural e intercultural); University of São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, Brazil.

Since 2012

Coordination of the Research Center (Inter)Cultural Communication in Multimodal Interactions - ICMI; Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Since 2012

Coordination of the inter-institutional Research Group CNPq: (Inter)Cultural Linguistics; Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

2011-2014

Member of the Research Group CNPq: Group for Language Studies: Language Use, Contacts and Boundaries (GIEL - Grupo Interinstitucional de Estudos de Lingua(gem): usos, contatos e fronteiras/Interinstitutional); affiliated research area: Intercultural Pragmatics (Pragmática Intercultural); Fluminense Federal University (UFF), Niterói, Brazil.

Since 2010

Coordination of the Research Group CNPq: Metaphor, Cognition and Culture (Metáfora, Cognição e Cultura); Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Since 2010

Coordination of the 'Research Group on Cognitive Studies in Discourse' ('Núcleo de Estudos Cognitivos no Discurso- NECODI'); Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Member of the 'Research Group on Studies of Language Use' ('Núcleo de Estudos de Língua em Uso - NELU'); Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

2008-2013

Supervision of trainees in teaching German as a Foreign Language at the Language Center of the Faculty of Humanities (Centro de Extensão da Faculdade de Letras - CENEX), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Since 2007

Coordination of the Department of German Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Membership of Scientific Societies

Since 2013

Member of the American Pragmatics Association - AMPRA.

Since 2013

Member of the Brazilian Association os German Studies (Associação Brasileira des Estudos Germanísticos - ABEG).

Since 2011

Member of the International Research Network for Intercultural German Studies (Internationales Forschungs- und Nachwuchsnetzwerk für Interkulturelle Germanistik - IFNIG).

Since 2009

Member of the International Pragmatics Association - IPrA.

Since 2007

Member of the Study Group Linguistics & Cognition of the National Association of the Postgraduate Program and Research of Humanities and Linguistics (Grupo de Trabalho Linguística & Cognição da Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Letras e Linguística).

Since 2006

Member of the Brazilian Linguistics Association (Associação Brasileira de Linguística - ABRALIN).

2009-2010

President of the German Professors' and Teachers' Association of Minas Gerais (Associação Mineira de Professores de Alemão - AMPA).

2009-2012

Vice-President of the Brazilian Association of Associations for German Language Professors (Associação Brasileira de Associações de Professores de Alemão - ABRAPA).

Address of the official site of the CV related to the platform of the National Council of Scientific Development and Technology (CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico): http://lattes.cnpq.br/0894459276304182