J. (Janina) Wildfeuer, Dr

Janina is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Information Studies. 

Janina is a #multimodalist with a multi-faceted background in linguistics, semiotics, and discourse analysis and has about 15 years of experience in working with visual and audiovisual communication. In her work, Janina deals with a broad variety of communicative artefacts with expertise in films and audiovisual data, comics, social media and games. She has contributed to the theoretical and methodological development of multimodality studies and also works in corpus-analytical and empirically oriented projects. At the moment, she focuses on the question of how (audio-)visual communication can help building a better future for our society.

At the University of Groningen, Janina teaches classes on multimodality, digital communication, visual and audio-visual analysis and she works as programme coordinator of the Master program Communication and Information Studies.

Janina is the Chief Editor of the journal 'Visual Communication', one of the key journals in the field of visual and multimodal communication, and Associate Editor for the speciality section 'Multimodality of Communication' with Frontiers in Communication.

Her publications include a monograph entitled Film Discourse Interpretation: Towards a New Paradigm for Multimodal Film Analysis, published in 2014 with Routledge, the textbooks Multimodality from 2017 and Multimodalität from 2020, several edited collections, as well as several contributions and papers on the analysis of multimodal artefacts such as film, comics, social media, etc.