Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU) was founded in 1993 and is one of the youngest German universities. It was formed in a merger of three existing institutions to create a university with a distinctive profile, so that in many areas it is able to draw on a considerably longer tradition. It is located in Magdeburg, the capital city of the federal state Saxony-Anhalt.
The University comprises 9 faculties and more than 13,000 students. The Faculty of Human Sciences, where pre-service teachers are trained, is the largest with a good 3,700 students
Karina Becker
Email:
Bio:
Karina Becker has been Professor of Didactics of German | German as a Foreign and Second Language at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg since 2019. She studied German, Latin and Philosophy (First State Examination, Magistra Artium) and completed her teacher training (Second State Examination). She received her doctorate in 2012 with a thesis on Goethe's literary fragments and habilitated in 2021 with a thesis on subjectivation-oriented teaching in German classes. Her research focuses on multimodal and diversity-oriented German didactics, taking into account intercultural and intersectional issues.
Recent publications (in selection): Rassismussensibler Literaturunterricht. Grundlagen, Dimensionen, Herausforderungen, Möglichkeiten, hg. v. Karina Becker und Michael Hofmann, Würzburg 2023; Zur Intersektionalität von Gender und Race. Kriterien für eine diversitätssensible Textanalyse (zus. mit Martina Kofer), in: Diversitätsorientierte Deutschdidaktik – Forschungsfragen, empirische Rekonstruktion und unterrichtspraktische Perspektiven, hg. v. Kirsten Schindler u. Wiebke Dannecker, Bochum 2022, S. 69‒83; Interkulturelles Lernen im Deutschunterricht. Hybridität und Diversität in der aktuellen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, in: Tendenzen der Gegenwartsliteratur. Literaturwissenschaftliche und literaturdidaktische Perspektiven, hg. v. Marijana Jeleč, Frankfurt a. M. 2019, S. 239–258.
