Office: O.08.13

Phone: +49 202 439 2149

Email: kutzner[at]uni-wuppertal.de

During the lecture period of the summer term 2025, office hours take place by appointment via email, either in person in room O.08.13 or online via Zoom.

Summer term 2025:

• Undergraduate seminar: Early and emergent literacy acquisition and learning (group 1)
• Undergraduate seminar: Virtual writing conference

Winter term 2024/2025:

• Undergraduate seminar: Early and emergent literacy acquisition and learning (group 8)
• Undergraduate seminar: Early and emergent literacy acquisition and learning (group 9)

Summer term 2024:

• Undergraduate seminar: Writing with AI

Winter term 2023/2024:

• Undergraduate seminar: Digital writing in primary school

• Kutzner, A. (2025, in preparation). Cross-linguistic writing with AI: Investigating transfer effects in L1, L2 and FL contexts. To be submitted to Didaktik Deutsch (International Special Issue: Writing with AI. Literacies – Practices – Pedagogies). 
  [English]
• Kutzner, A. (2025, in preparation). Writing summaries with the support of AI. To be submitted to ide – Informationen zur Deutschdidaktik, 4. 
  [German original title: Schreiben von Inhaltsangaben unter Unterstützung von KI]
• Kutzner, A., & Schindler, K. (2025, submitted). Writing a fairy tale with a little help of ChatGPT – Experiences of fourth-graders. Manuscript submitted for publication to Journal für Medienlinguistik (jfml).
  [English]
• Kutzner, A., & Schindler, K. (2025). Writing with AI – Fourth-graders compose fairy tales with the help of ChatGPT. Grundschule, 2, 17–21. 
  [German original title: Die KI schreibt mit – Viertklässler:innen verfassen Märchen mit Hilfe von ChatGPT]
• Arbeitskollektiv Schreibwissenschaft. (2024). Booksprints in higher education: Learning to write as a team. wbv.
  (Contributors: S. Brommer, K. Busch, J. Fehling, K. Girgensohn, A. Kutzner, J. Lehmkuhl, L. Pitzen, V. Richter, S. Rödl, K. Schindler, N. Sennewald, S. C. Schulze, A. Voigt, & L.-L. Winkler) 
  [German original title: Booksprints in der Hochschullehre: Schreiben lernen im Team]
• Dube, J., & Kutzner, A. (2024). Gender-related diversity in teaching and examination materials. Reproduction of power structures through the selection of authors of literary texts. In M. Kißling & J. Tönsing (Eds.), Einfach aussortieren? Anregungen für kritische Lektüren des Literaturkanons (pp. 103–133.). Frank & Timme. 
  [German original title: Geschlechtsbezogene Diversität in Lehr- und Prüfungsmaterialien. Reproduktion von Machtstrukturen über die Auswahl von Autoren und Autorinnen literarischer Texte]

• AI in the German classroom: Improving basic skills.
  (KI im Deutschunterricht: Basiskompetenzen stärken)
  Digital workshop series conducted for the Pacemaker Initiative as part of the teacher training program “AI in (Primary) Schools” of the Berlin Senate Department for Education, on 29 April, 15 May, 27 May, and 3 June, 2025.
• Text machine or writing artist? The transformative impact of artificial intelligence on writing in secondary education.
  (Textmaschine oder Schreibkünstler? Der transformative Einfluss von Künstlicher Intelligenz auf das Schreiben im Sekundarbereich)
  Poster presentation at the annual conference of the Working Group Media of Symposion Deutschdidaktik (SDD) at the University of Bremen on 27 March 2025.
• Writing with AI – Perspectives for schools.
  (Schreiben mit KI – Perspektiven für die Schule)
  Keynote with Dr. Gerrit Helm and Prof.in Dr. Kirsten Schindler at the Future Forum on Educational Research: Transformation(s) in School and Teaching - Reflecting, Shaping and Evaluating Change at the University of Education Karlsruhe on 15 November 2024.
• Writing with AI.
  (Schreiben mit KI)
  Digital keynote with Nicole Wahl at the Centre of excellence learning:digital on 8 October 2024.
• AI and writing in schools: Stocktaking, experiments, findings.
  (KI und das Schreiben in der Schule: Bestandsaufnahmen, Erprobungen, Erkenntnisse)
  Digital lecture with Prof. Dr. Kirsten Schindler at Artificial Friday: Linguistic Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Center for Rhetorical Science Communication Research on Artificial Intelligence (RHET AI) on 12 July 2024.
• Text machine or writing artist? The transformative impact of artificial intelligence on writing in secondary education.
  (Textmaschine oder Schreibkünstler? Der transformative Einfluss von Künstlicher Intelligenz auf das Schreiben im Sekundarbereich)
  Digital poster presentation for the GAL research focus Artificial Intelligence at Artificial Friday: Linguistic Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Center for Rhetorical Science Communication Research on Artificial Intelligence (RHET AI) on 17 May 2024.
• ChatGPT in the writing classroom.
  (ChatGPT im Schreibunterricht)
  Digital lecture at Tool Tip Tuesday, hosted by AI-Campus,  VK:KIWA and the Distance-Learning University Hagen on 26 March 2024.

• Institut für Schreibwissenschaft (ISW)
  ('Institute for Writing Studies')
• Symposion Deutschdidaktik (SDD)
  ('Symposium on German Didactics')
• AG Medien des SDD
  ('Working Group Media of the SDD')
• Qualifikationsnetzwerk (QualiNet) des SDD
  ('Qualification Network of the SDD')

• Since October 2023
  Doctoral candidate (PhD) and research & teaching associate in language didactics (language teaching and learning) at the chair of Prof. Dr Kirsten Schindler, University of Wuppertal
• September 2023
  Master of Education (M.Ed.) – Teaching degree in the subjects English and German for secondary schools (Gymnasium and Gesamtschule), University of Wuppertal
  (Academic focus on literary studies, linguistics, the teaching and learning of German and English (both as first, second, and foreign languages), and educational sciences)
• February – September 2023
  Research assistant in literature didactics of Dr Juliane Dube, University of Wuppertal
• January – June 2023
  Substitute teacher (German, German as a Second Language, and English) at Stiftisches Humanistisches Gymnasium Mönchengladbach
• November 2022 – August 2023
  Research assistant in language didactics of Prof. Dr Kirsten Schindler for the third-party funded project SPRint, University of Cologne 
• May 2021 – August 2022
  Educational support staff and head of the tablet club (years 2-4) at the municipal community primary school Kruppstraße with an open all-day programme in Wuppertal
• June 2021
  Dual-major Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in English/American Studies and German Studies, University of Wuppertal 
  (Academic focus on literary studies, linguistics, the teaching and learning of German and English (both as first, second, and foreign languages), and educational sciences)
• July – September 2014
  Internship abroad as a German Language Assistant Teacher at Brisbane State High School in Brisbane, Australia