Marie-Luis Merten

Marie-Luis Merten is an Assistant Professor for Communicating Digitalized Spaces at the German Department of the University of Zurich, affiliated with the Digital Society Initiative (DSI). She holds a PhD from the University of Paderborn and previously served as a junior professor for Historical Linguistics of German at the University of Hamburg. Her research focuses on linguistic online communication, digital cultural artifacts, and internet commentary patterns.

Education:

• Doctorate (2016): University of Paderborn (thesis on historical grammar change)

Research Interests: Examines digital communication forms such as memes in political discourse and linguistic activity in online news comment sections. Collaborates with institutions like the Universities of Vienna and Augsburg. Explores patterns of language use as digital positioning routines, combining corpus linguistics with computational methods.

Labs/Teams: Leads projects within the Digital Humanities field, including the DFG-funded InterGramm project analyzing Middle Low German linguistic development.

Grants/Advising: No specific grants listed, but active in collaborative research initiatives. No advisee names provided in texts.