Johanna Miecznikowski-Fuenfschilling

After her degree in Italian Philology, Russian Philology and French Linguistics from the University of Basel, she continued her career at her home university as an assistant in French Linguistics and in General Linguistics. She worked on linguistic biographies of multilingual speakers and on the interactive construction of scientific discourse in a multilingual environment. In 2002, she obtained a PhD in French Linguistics. After a research stay at the University of Turin, where she investigated the conditional mood and discourse markers in spoken language, the University of Basel granted her, in 2010, the habilitation to teach Romance Linguistics. In 2007 she started her collaboration with USI Università della Svizzera italiana, where she conducted research on modality, evidentiality and argumentation in contemporary written and spoken Italian.

Since 2020 she has been an adjunct professor at the Institute of Italian Studies and the Institute of argumentation, linguistics and semiotics and teaches Linguistics and Pragmatics within the Bachelor's and Master's programs in Italian language, literature and culture.