Bianca Schüller

Bianca Schüller is a Researcher at the Department of English and American Literature, Culture, and Media Studies, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany. She works under Prof. Dr. Jan Alber, contributing to projects in cognitive literary studies and queer theory. As Decentralised Representative for Women and Equal Opportunities, she advocates for equity in academia.

Education:

• Master of Arts in Literary Studies and Linguistics (RWTH Aachen University, 2022, Ø 1.1)
• Bachelor of Arts in Teacher Training (RWTH Aachen University, 2019, Ø 1.63)

Research interests include queer and feminist criticism, cognitive approaches to literature, film narratology, fairy tale retellings, and Indigenous Australian/postcolonial studies. Her work bridges systemic functional linguistics with multimodal analysis to explore narrative structures and reader cognition.

Scientific awards include the Springorum Medal (2023) and multiple Dean's List recognitions (2016–2018). She has contributed to funded projects like the TRICKLET Project (DFG) and Australian Studies (MKW NRW).

Teaching includes courses on poetry, narrative theory, and fairy tale retellings at Justus-Liebig University Giessen and RWTH Aachen University. Her publications and conference presentations span multimodal analysis, translation research, and queer representation in 21st-century fiction.