Professor Eva-Maria Thüne 

Eva-Maria Thüne has been Professor of German language and linguistics at the University of Bologna since 1997. Her main research areas are text linguistics, conversation analysis and German as a foreign language. In 2017 she spent some months in the UK gathering narrative interviews with German speaking migrants, mainly with Kinder of the Kindertransport, as a basis for investigating their maintenance or loss of German language during the course of their lives in the UK. She is currently engaged in research on language biographies.

Prof. Thüne has taken part in international research projects and works with various European institutions.  She has received the prize of the Accademia di Studi Italo-Tedeschi di Merano and has been a Fellow of the Bogliasco Foundation. From February until August 2017 she was Bologna-Clare Hall-Fellow in Cambridge, and is now a Life Member of Clare Hall. In 2018 she was Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Fellow of the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London. In 2019 she was Visiting Scholar at Magdalene College Cambridge. She has already been a By-Fellow at Churchill College Cambridge, during Easter Term 2022.

https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/evamaria.thune/en

Last publications:

Hanna Kiel, Die Schlacht um den Hügel, Berlin 2024

Voices heard. Autobiographical accounts of language learning after forced migration (Thüne / Brizić)

Language and education, 2022, Taylor & Francis, DOI10.1080/09500782.2022.2088239

Gerettet: Berichte von Kindertransport und Auswanderung nach Großbritannien, Berlin/Leipzig 2019