Cold ice, Magdalena, Mag.a Dr.in, MA

Innrain 52, room no. 40409, 4th floor, Geiwi Tower
Consultation hours: by appointment
About the person
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University Assistant (post-doc) for Russian Linguistics and Didactics of Russian | September 2022 - today
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Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta (Edmonton) | 2022
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Doctorate (University of Klagenfurt) | 2021
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University assistant (prae-doc/100%) at the University of Klagenfurt | 2018 - 2022
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Teaching Diploma for French and Russian, and a Master's degree in Slavic Studies (University of Innsbruck) |2014 / 2017
Teaching
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Basics of the study programme
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Selected areas of the Russian language system and how they are taught
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History, geography, politics of Russia: Russian media & the war in Ukraine
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Doing Subject Didactics (lecture series / University of Innsbruck)
Research
- Multilingualism
- Protest cultures in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine
- Language, politics and media in Russia in the 21st century
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Audiovisual media
Applied linguistics
(Multimodal) discourse analysis
Language ideologies and critical sociolinguistics
Visual communication
Publications
Monographs:
- TV-Talkshows als Propagandainstrument Russlands im Ukrainekonflikt (2014) (= Sprache im Kontext/Language in Context). De Gruyter 2022. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110778373/html
Articles in journals:
- Publication of the issue 1/2025: (with Eva Binder) "Film ab! – Audiovisuelle Medien im Unterricht slawischer Sprachen". Didaktik slawischer Sprachen (DiSlaw) – 1/2025. https://doi.org/10.48789/2025.1
- (with Eva Binder) "Critical Language Pedagogy in the Classroom: The TV Talk Show 60 Minutes as a 'Lesson' on Russian Propaganda". Russian Language Journal (RLJ) 2023, 73(2), 245–264. DOI
- (with Eva Binder) ""Geograf globus propil" als Beitrag zur Förderung der Lerner*innenautonomie in der Schule." DiSlaw - Special Issue 2023, 125–150. https://doi.org/10.48789/2023_special_issue6
- (with Wolfgang Stadler) "Colloquial Russian between theory and practice: what is claimed and what is real?" Russian Linguistics, 2023, 1–25. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11185-023-09272-1
- Der Begriff des native speaker in slawischen und romanischen Sprachen - Bezeichnungen und ihre Implikationen". Wiener Linguistische Gazette, 92/2022, 21-27.
- "Russisch lernen und Ukrainisch verstehen. Praktische Ideen zur Arbeit mit dem Ukrainischen im Russischunterricht". DiSlaw (Didaktik slawischer Sprachen), 2/2022. https://doi.org/10.48789/2022.2.11
- "Is 'authentic' equal to 'motivating'? Authenticity and motivation in second language education: An overview over 30 years of research". DiSlaw (Didaktik slawischer Sprachen), 1/2021, 16-29. Open Access: https://tinyurl.com/mrxbcmed
- (together with Michaela Winkler) "Editorial". DiSlaw (Didaktik slawischer Sprachen), 1/2021, i-vi. Open Access: https://tinyurl.com/2bzdfucn
Contributions to edited volumes:
- (with Wolfgang Stadler) "In the dynamic classroom: Teaching colloquial Russian". In: Nuss, Svetlana; Whitehead-Martelle, Wendy (Hrsg.): Teaching Russian Creatively With and Beyond the Textbook. London & New York: Routledge 2024, 132–156. Online: https://www.routledge.com/Teaching-Russian-Creatively-With-and-Beyond-the-Textbook/Nuss-WhiteheadMartelle/p/book/9781032268514
- (with Eva Binder) "Politik, Sport und Kino: Legenda No17 im Russischunterricht". Akademie für Lehrerfortbildung und Personalführung (ALP): Methodische und inhaltliche Anregungen für den kompetenzorientierten Unterricht im Fach Russisch. Dillingen 2023, 52–59. Open Access
- ""Крым возвращается домой!" - Metaphorische Suggestion von Zusammengehörigkeit in russischen TV-Talkshows anlässlich der Krim-Annexion 2014 und mögliche Anknüpfungsbereiche im Russischunterricht". In: Fuchsbauer, Jürgen; Stadler, Wolfgang; Zink, Andrea (eds.): Kulturen verbinden – Connecting Cultures – Объединяя культуры. Literatur-/kulturwissenschaftliche, linguistische und fachdidaktische Reflexionen zum verbindenden Moment von Kulturen. Innsbruck: iup 2021. 235-257.
- (with Eva Binder) "Odessa 2014. Alternative News and Atrocity Narratives on Russian TV". In: Deutschmann, Peter; Herlth, Jens; Woldan, Alois (eds.): "Truth" and Fiction. Conspiracy Theories in Eastern European Culture and Literature. Bielefeld: transcript 2020. 185-210. Open Access: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4650-4/truth-and-fiction/
Other publications:
- „Politische Talkshows“. Dekoder – Journalismus aus Russland in deutscher Übersetzung,07.2019. Revised and updated on 17.08.2022. Available online at: https://www.dekoder.org/de/gnose/politische-talkshows-posner-kisseljow
- "Russia's invasion of Ukraine: The first day of the war in Russian TV talk shows". Forum for Ukrainian Studies, 11.05.2022. Available online at: https://ukrainian-studies.ca/2022/05/11/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-the-first-day-of-the-war-in-russian-tv-talk-shows/
- "Ist Russisch die ‚Sprache des Feindes‘? Der Standard, 17.03.2022, 34. Available online at: https://www.derstandard.at/story/2000134163366/ist-russisch-die-sprache-des-feindes
Scientific organisation
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Member of the editorial board of the open access journal DiSlaw; review activity and co-editor of First issue (December 2021)
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Member of the research centre Kulturen in Kontakt
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Study representative for the teaching subject Russian as a teacher | summer semester 2023 - today