J. (Janina) Wildfeuer, Dr

Janina is Associate Professor in Communication and Information Studies - and a #multimodalist with a multi-faceted background in linguistics, semiotics, and discourse analysis. She has more than 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. She is also one of the editors of the book series "Pathways to Multimodality" with de Gruyter.