Selcen Erten Johansson

Selcen Erten Johansson is a Doctoral Researcher in Digital Language Studies at the University of Turku, focusing on corpus linguistics and media discourse analysis. Her research examines Turkish web registers in the context of political events, such as Finland's NATO membership process in Turkish media. Supported by the Eino Jutikkala Fund (2024–2026), her work bridges computational methods with sociolinguistic inquiry. She holds a Master's in Linguistics from Mersin University (2019) and has been a Fulbright scholar in the U.S. Her teaching spans corpus linguistics, language technology, and Turkish as a foreign language at institutions including Turun Suomenkielinen Työväenopisto and Toros University.

Education:

• PhD Candidate in Digital Linguistics, University of Turku (2021–present)
• Master's in Linguistics, Mersin University, Türkiye (2019)
• Fulbright Scholarship, Michigan State University (2015–2016)

Research Interests: Selcen explores language variation in digital contexts, particularly Turkish web-based discourse. She combines corpus linguistics with computational tools to analyze political media narratives and multilingual web registers. Her work emphasizes the intersection of technology and sociolinguistics, including projects like TurCORE and collaborations with the TurkuNLP research team. She also investigates pedagogical approaches for teaching Turkish and Finnish as foreign languages.

Grants & Support:

• Eino Jutikkala Fund Grant (2024–2026), Finnish Academy of Science and Letters

Teaching & Outreach: She has taught courses on corpus linguistics, automatic text processing, and Turkish language instruction across multiple institutions. Her teaching philosophy integrates digital tools with traditional language pedagogy.

Labs & Teams: Active member of the TurkuNLP research team, focusing on NLP applications in digital humanities and multilingual corpora analysis.