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Susanne Tienken is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in German Linguistics at Stockholm University, affiliated with the Department of Slavic and Baltic Studies, Finnish, Dutch and German. She holds dual roles combining academic teaching with research leadership. Her affiliations include membership in prestigious research networks such as The Heritage Seminar, Cultural Memory Studies, and the Network Language and Power.
Her research focuses on cultural linguistics, media linguistics, and historical sociolinguistics, exploring how language constructs cultural meaning and shapes societal interactions. Key areas include cultural heritage digitization, emotional communication in media, and historical discourse analysis of religious texts like funeral sermons. She leads projects such as the digitization of Skokloster Castle library materials and contributes to the National Graduate School in Digital Philology.
Publications emphasize interdisciplinary approaches, analyzing topics from 17th-century aristocratic communication to modern digital mourning practices. Her work bridges historical linguistics with contemporary media studies, addressing themes like memory preservation, power dynamics in language, and emotional expression across cultural contexts.
She actively participates in research groups investigating heritage preservation, cultural memory, and language-power relationships, reflecting her commitment to transdisciplinary scholarship. Her projects often involve cutting-edge methods like distributed meta-learning for cultural data fusion and user-driven digital access frameworks.
