Julia Schilling, M.Ed.
Research Assistant
PhD Student
I am a Research Assistant (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) and PhD Candidate working under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs.
My research interests span across various domains within linguistics and computational analysis. In my work, I regularly employ R and Python for statistical analysis, data visualization, computational linguistics tasks, and machine learning applications. Specifically, I focus on (political) discourse analysis, utilizing innovative methodologies from corpus linguistics and computational linguistics to unveil underlying patterns and structures within political communication.
My doctoral research is centered on the compelling field of populist political communication on social media. This endeavor seeks to unravel the complexities of how political ideologies manifest and propagate in the digital sphere, particularly through the lens of populist rhetoric. By employing advanced computational and linguistic methodologies, I aim to shed light on the strategies, discourses, and impacts of populist communication in the online realm.
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Curriculum Vitae
Since April 2024: Research assistant/ doctoral researcher with Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs, University of Bonn
August 2021–July 2024: Research assistant/ doctoral researcher with Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs, University of Hamburg
- April 2023 – March 2024: Research assistant Digital Data Literacy in Teaching Lab (DDLitLab) “Applying Data Science to Controverial Discourses”
- April 2022 – March 2023: Research assistant Digital Data Literacy in Teaching Lab (DDLitLab) “(Advanced) Data Analysis for Linguists”
- August 2021 – July 2023: Research assistant DFG Project “The Impact of Public Discourse on Health Care Utilization during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
April 2021 – September 2021: Lecturer for English Linguistics at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Seminar: Syntax)
Feb 2019 – December 2021: Student Assistant (stud./wiss. Hilfskraft) at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz
- Creating and processing of a Twitter corpus of American senators and Donald J. Trump for Prof. Dr. Britta Mondorf and Dr. Ulrike Schneider.
- Curating Instagram and Facebook corpora for Dr. Miriam Lind.
- Academic writing tutor in English linguistics
April 2018 - March 2021: Master of Education in English and Social Studies, with a supplementary examination in Mathematics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
June 2019 – August 2019: VT, USA Master of Arts in English (fully funded semester abroad), Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury,
April 2015 – Mai 2018: Bachelor of Education in English and Social Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
WiSe 24/25: Methods in Applied Linguistics - Seminar
Presentations
Schilling, J. (2024). Vox Populi: A Linguistic Framework of Populist Discourse. International Society for the Linguistics of English Summer School (ISLE 2024), Freiburg, Germany.
Schilling, J. & Fuchs, R. (2023). Sentiments in British COVID-19 Twitter Discourse. International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME 44), Vanderbijlpark, South Africa/online.
Schilling, J. & Fuchs, R. (2023). Media portrayals of COVID-19 in British newspapers: A comparative sentiment analysis. E-Symposium on Computation Politics, Thessaloniki, Greece/online.
Schilling, J. & Fuchs, R. (2022). Spreading like a virus – Discussing COVID-19 in German and English. Sociolinguistics Symposium 2022, Ghent, Belgium.
Schilling, J. & Fuchs, R. (2022). Pandem-onium: Identifying keywords and phrases in British COVID-19 Twitter and newspaper discourse. International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME 2022), Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Schilling, J. (2022). Trump’s Populist Rhetoric – A Corpus-Based Analysis of ‘the People’ and ‘the Elite’. International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME 43), Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Schilling, J. & Fuchs, R. (2022). Discursive strategies and polarisation in British COVID-19 Twitter discourse. Conference of the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Mainz, Germany.
Schilling, J. & Fuchs, R. (2022). Viral discourses: COVID-19 discourse in German and English newspapers. British Association of Applied Linguistics. Belfast, United Kingdom.
Schilling, J. & Fuchs, R. (2022). A tale of four nations: British COVID-19 Twitter discourse across time and space. British Association of Applied Linguistics. Belfast, United Kingdom.
Schilling, J. & Fuchs. (2022). Media portrayals of COVID-19 in British newspapers: A comparative analysis. 9th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English. Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Schilling, J. & Fuchs, R. (2022). Identifying keywords in British COVID-19 Newspaper Discourse. Methods in Dialectology XVII, Mainz, Germany.
Schilling, J. & Fuchs R. (2022). Metaphors in British COVID-19 Newspaper Discourse. X International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS X), Seville, Spain.
Schilling, J., Bayindir E. E., Schreyögg, J. & Fuchs, R. (2022). The Impact of Public Discourse on Health Care Utilisation during the COVID-19 Pandemic. DFG Research Conference Pandemics, online.
Schilling, J. & Fuchs, R. (2022). Identifying Keywords in German COVID-19 Twitter Discourse. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, online.