Teaching
- Course Description
- This course explores the contemporary manifestations of antisemitism and Holocaust distortion across digital platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Telegram. Students will examine how different forms of Jew-hatred are disseminated through various media formats—including videos, memes, texts, and semiotic markers—and analyze the socio-political contexts that facilitate their dissemination. Through a multidisciplinary lens, the course combines theoretical frameworks from Holocaust studies, linguistics, and digital humanities. Students will work in research groups on their own case study projects, participate in critical discussions, and apply digital tools to acquire, annotate, and analyze user-generated content both qualitatively and quantitatively. The course sheds light on state-of-the-art approaches, emphasizes ethical considerations in working with online data, and guides students in developing their own research projects to address pertinent issues in social media discourse.
Linguistic Analysis of Social Media and User-Generated Content in Web 2.0 (Spring 2026), Undergraduate Seminar, Indiana University
- Course Description (LING-L 210 (13323))
- This course examines how language shapes digital communication, focusing on bias, hate speech, and ideological framing in social media discourse. Students will engage with methods from corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and sentiment analysis to examine user-generated content. Key topics include pragmatic strategies in online debates, such as implicature, presupposition, framing and reframing, speech acts, delegitimization, irony and sarcasm, dog whistles, and persuasive language techniques. Students will explore lexical patterns in digital discourse and computational tools for linguistic analysis. Through guided hands-on training, they will develop skills in monitoring, annotating and interpreting linguistic trends on social media. Working in groups, students will conduct collaborative research projects, applying linguistic methodologies to investigate contemporary online discourse and presenting their findings in a final report.
European Antisemitism from Enlightenment to Holocaust (Fall 2025), Undergraduate Seminar, Indiana University
- Course Description (JSTU-J 304 (31479) / HIST-B 315 (35288)
- This course traces the history of antisemitism in Europe from antiquity to the rise of Nazism. We will examine key historical moments, including religious persecution, medieval blood libels, economic stereotypes, racial antisemitism, and political scapegoating. Through readings, discussions, and research projects, students will analyze how antisemitic myths and ideologies shaped European societies. By the end of the course, students will understand the historical roots of antisemitism, its manifestations, adaptations, and continuing implications.
Critique of Antisemitism: Theories and Intervention (Fall 2024) Undergraduate Lecture, Regensburg University of Applied Sciences
- Kursbeschreibung (Modul: Sozial- und politikwissenschaftliche Vertiefung)
- In dieser Lehrveranstaltung erhalten die Studierenden die notwendigen theoretischen und praktischen Werkzeuge, um Antisemitismus in ihrem zukünftigen Berufsfeld zu erkennen und darauf angemessen zu reagieren.
