Fabienne Fulst

Fabienne Fulst is a Lecturer at the Institute of German Philology, Faculty of Philosophy, Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg. She currently represents Dr. Miriam Schwebler in the Chair of German Linguistics (Hubland campus, space 4.E.15). Her academic journey includes a Master's in German Studies and a Bachelor's in Media Communication (2013–2017), followed by a graduate program in the Graduate School for the Humanities (since SS 2024).

• Current Role: Lehrkraft für besondere Aufgaben (special teaching duties)
• Teaching: Courses in German linguistics, historical linguistics, and laic linguistics since WS 2024/25

Her research focuses on lay linguistic attitudes toward language errors, combining corpus-based analysis of 20th/21st-century metalinguistic discourses in social media (e.g., Instagram studies) and traditional formats. The work explores how entertainment-driven error criticism shapes public language ideologies.

Selected achievements include a dissertation project on "Between Criticism and Comedy – Attitudes and Positions Toward Linguistic Errors" (supervised by Prof. Wolf-Peter Klein, Prof. Matthias Schulz, and Prof. Angelika Wöllstein) and a diploma thesis titled "Sprachideologien in den Sozialen Medien" (DOI: 10.25972/OPUS-35147). She also serves as doctoral student spokesperson for the Graduate School since March 2025.