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.

Winter term 2026/2027:

• Cross-Listed Seminar in German Language Education and Educational Sciences:
  AI-supported writing in the German Classroom (cooperation with primary schools in Wuppertal)
• Early and emergent literacy acquisition and learning (group 4)

Summer term 2026:

• Virtual Writing Conference (cooperation with Grundschule Marienstraße Wuppertal)

Winter term 2025/2026:

• Cross-Listed Seminar in German Language Education and Educational Sciences:
  AI-supported 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 schools

• 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]
• Kleinschmidt, G., Kutzner, A., Lichte, D.-M., & Pehl, L. (2026). Between Prompting and Writing Pedagogy: How Pre-Service Teachers Use AI in German Language Teaching. In Newsletter Teacher Education at the University of Wuppertal, 6: New Impulses for Teacher Education, 28–29.
  [German original title: Zwischen Prompting und Schreibdidaktik: Wie Lehramtsstudierende KI im Deutschunterricht erproben]
• Kutzner, A., & Schindler, K. (2026). Writing a Fairy Tale with a Little Help of ChatGPT – Prompting Experiences of Fourth-Graders. Journal for Media Linguistics, 8(2), Special Issue: Talking AI. Linguistic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence, 36–72. doi.org/10.21248/jfml.2026.73 
  [English]
• Kutzner, A. (2025). Learning to Write with AI – From Fairy Tales to Summaries: AI Writing Competence as a Future Skill in Schools and Teacher Education. In Newsletter Teacher Education at the University of Wuppertal, 4: Artificial Intelligence in Teacher Education, 16–17.
  [German original title: Schreiben mit KI lernen – Vom Märchen bis zur Inhaltsangabe: KI-Schreibkompetenz als Future Skill in Schule und Lehrer*innenbildung]
• 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]

• 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).
  Talk as part of the Open Science Session at the Summer School on Didactic and Empirical Writing Research (dieS) 2026 at the Karlsruhe University of Education on 19 June 2026.

• AI-supported Writing in Year 9 German and English Lessons: A German–Australian Comparison.
  (KI-gestütztes Schreiben im Deutsch- und Englischunterricht der 9. Klasse im deutsch-australischen Vergleich)
  Online Talk as part of the ‘Digital Thursday’ lecture series (Digitaler Donnerstag) at the University of Wuppertal on 11 June 2025.

• Being Creative with AI in the Classroom.
  (Kreativ mit KI im Klassenraum)
  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 teacher educators at the Centre for Practical Teacher Training (ZfsL) Hagen in the 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 for teachers 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)
  Online workshop series for teacher professional development conducted for the Pacemaker Initiative as part of the Berlin Senate Department for Education's teacher training program “AI in (Primary) Schools”, 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. 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)
  Online 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)
  Online talk 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)
  Online 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)
  Online talk at Tool Tip Tuesday, hosted by AI-Campus,  VK:KIWA and the Distance-Learning University Hagen on 26 March 2024.

• 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')
• Institut für Schreibwissenschaft (ISW)
  ('Institute for Writing Studies')

• 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 as a Foreign Language), 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, Queensland, Australia