Office: O.08.13

Phone: +49 202 439 2149

Email: kutzner[at]uni-wuppertal.de

Office hours take place by appointment via email, either in person in room O.08.13 or online via Zoom.

Summer term 2026:

• Virtual Writing Conference (cooperation with Grundschule Marienstraße Wuppertal)

  The virtual writing conference is a cooperation project between Marienstraße Primary School in Wuppertal (fourth grade) and the University of Wuppertal. The writing conference aims to jointly write a digital story (adventure, fairy tale, comic, horror... – the theme is set by the student authors).

  The stories are written in teams. Each team consists of pairs of pupils (usually two, rarely three) and pairs of students working together. While pupils write the story together as authors on the iPad, students support them as writing consultants.

  The seminar consists of three phases:

  • Preparation phase (university): The students are introduced to key topics in digital story writing (writing skills, writing skills development, writing process, feedback).

  • Work phase (school): Students and pupils work together in their groups on the stories – usually digitally (GoogleDocs), with at least one face-to-face meeting for the students at the school. The phase begins with a joint kick-off (pupils come to the university and teams are formed) and ends with the ceremonial handover of the finished stories at the school. 

  • Evaluation phase (university): The project is reflected upon and evaluated, and possible research questions for term papers are derived. 

  • The cooperation project combines subject-specific teaching principles with the students' own school experiences in a unique way and enables a practical examination of the (digital) writing process.

Winter term 2025/2026:

• AI-assisted writing at school (cooperation with five primary schools / 10 classes in Wuppertal)​​​

Summer term 2025:

• Early and emergent literacy acquisition and learning (group 1)
• Virtual Writing Conference (cooperation with Grundschule Marienstraße Wuppertal)

Winter term 2024/2025:

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

Summer term 2024:

• Writing with AI

Winter term 2023/2024:

• Digital writing in primary school

• Kutzner, A. (2026, submitted). Cross-linguistic writing with AI: Investigating transfer effects in L1, L2 and FL contexts. Submitted to Didaktik Deutsch (International Special Issue: Writing with AI. Literacies – Practices – Pedagogies). 
  [English]
• Kutzner, A. (2026, submitted). AI Writing Strategies: Empirical Insights into Writing with Artificial Intelligence. Submitted to ide – Informationen zur Deutschdidaktik, 4. 
  [German original title: KI-Schreibstrategien: Empirische Einblicke in das Schreiben mit Künstlicher Intelligenz]
• Kutzner, A., & Schindler, K. (2026, submitted). Writing a fairy tale with a little help of ChatGPT – Prompting Experiences of fourth-graders. Submitted to Journal for Media Linguistics (jfml) (Special Issue: Talking AI. Linguistic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence).
  [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]

• Creative with AI in the Classroom.
  Interview with Tom Hecker for KURT Magazine (TU Dortmund University) (29 December 2025).
• AI in primary schools.
  (KI in der Grundschule)
  Professional development conducted with Lisanne Pitzen for the Centre for Practical Teacher Training (ZfsL) Hagen, Primary School Teacher Education Programme, on 15 December 2025. 
• AI-supported term paper training.
  (Facharbeitstraining mit KI)
  Workshop conducted with Jana Fritze, Jan-Niklas Mangels, and Prof. Dr. Kirsten Schindler for pupils at the Thusneldastraße Gymnasium in Cologne Deutz (academic track secondary school) on 4 December 2025. 
• AI-supported writing in subject teaching: Fostering genre competence and designing writing processes.
  (KI-gestütztes Schreiben im Fachunterricht: Textmusterkompetenz fördern und Schreibprozesse gestalten)
  Workshop conducted at the Gesamtschule Barmen (comprehensive school) as part of the educational project KIMADU (Künstliche Intelligenz im Mathematik- und Deutschunterricht ‘Artificial Intelligence in Mathematics and German Lessons’) on 25 November 2025.
• AI in the practical semester.
  (KI im Praxissemester)
  Keynote with Lisanne Pitzen at the working group afternoon on the school-based part of the practical semester on 21 November 2025.
• 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')
• Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik e.V. (GAL)
  ('Society for Applied Linguistics')

• Since October 2023
  PhD Candidate and Research & Teaching Associate in German Language Education, University of Wuppertal (with Prof. Dr Kirsten Schindler)
• September 2023
  Master of Education (M.Ed., Honours Programme) – Secondary Teaching (English & German; academic track high schools: Gymnasium/Gesamtschule), University of Wuppertal
  (Academic focus: literary studies, linguistics, teaching and learning of English and German (both as first, second, and foreign languages), as well as educational sciences)
• February – September 2023
  Research Assistant in German Literature Education, University of Wuppertal (Dr Juliane Dube)
• November 2022 – August 2023
  Research Assistant in German Language Education, University of Cologne (Prof. Dr Kirsten Schindler)
  Externally funded project: SPRint
• January – June 2023
  Relief / Substitute Teacher (German, German as a Second Language, English), Stiftisches Humanistisches Gymnasium Mönchengladbach, Germany
• May 2021 – August 2022
  Education Support Staff and Head of the Tablet Club (Years 2-4), Municipal Primary School Kruppstraße, Wuppertal, Germany
• June 2021
  Bachelor of Arts (B.A., Honours Programme) – Double Major in English & American Studies and German Studies, University of Wuppertal 
  (Academic focus: literary studies, linguistics, teaching and learning of English and German (both as first, second, and foreign languages), as well as educational sciences)
• July – September 2014
  German Language Assistant Teacher (International Internship), Brisbane State High School, Brisbane, QLD, Australia