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Dr. Nicole Baumgarten serves as Senior Lecturer in Translation and Intercultural Communication Studies at the School of Languages, Arts and Societies, University of Sheffield, where she has been teaching since joining the institution in 2016. Her academic career spans multiple international institutions with significant contributions to applied linguistics and cross-cultural communication research.
- MA in English Philology, Modern and Medieval History and Law from University of Kiel, Germany
- Dr. phil. in Applied Linguistics from University of Hamburg (Germany), focused on multimodal translation research funded by the German Science Foundation
- Former associate professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Southern Denmark
Dr. Baumgarten's research centers on the linguistic construction and negotiation of concepts and social categories across languages and cultures, with particular emphasis on multilingual and intercultural settings where participants operate with reduced common ground. Her work examines socio-communicative consequences of linguistic choices in cross-linguistic communication, addressing societal issues such as foreign language learning, English as a global language, professionalization in language services, social inclusion, and discrimination. Current projects investigate online hate speech, language-based discrimination in service industries, entertainment localization, cultural requirements engineering, and second language development.
Analysis of her publication record reveals a consistent trajectory toward examining real-world applications of linguistic theory in digital communication spaces, social justice contexts, and professional settings. Her recent work demonstrates growing attention to multimodal communication, the intersection of language and technology, and the sociopolitical implications of linguistic choices in increasingly globalized communication environments.
Dr. Baumgarten actively supervises research students in applied linguistics, welcoming qualitative, mixed methods, and interdisciplinary approaches. She encourages research on individual multilingualism (from socio-cultural perspectives), intercultural communication, English as a Lingua Franca, translation and localization, multimodal communication including audiovisual translation, intercultural/contrastive pragmatics, register analysis, organizational communication, business communication, technology-mediated interaction, and second language use and identities.
