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Dr Karina von Lindeiner-Strasky

Profile summary

  • Central Academic Staff
  • Senior Lecturer in German
  • Faculty of Wellbeing, Education & Language Studies
  • School of Languages & Applied Linguistics
  • Languages
  • karina.von-lindeiner-strasky

Professional biography

During my studies at Universities in Germany and the UK, I developedÌýmy interest in the intersection between languages, literature, and culture.

²Ñ²âÌýDPhil in Modern European Languages (German)Ìýat Oxford University (2006) focussed on Klaus Mann, a German writer who went into exile to fight against Hitler and the Third Reich with his pen. During his exile in France, the Netherlands, and the US, he closely interacted with intellectuals from his host countries and attempted writing literary and non-literary texts in English. My research looked at how his political beliefs and objectives influenced the content, style, and language of his novels.

Since 2006, I taught and researched in German departments across the UK and Germany, before I came to the OU in 2017.

Research interests

  • Machine Translation in Language Learning, Teaching, and Assessment
  • Language teaching pedagogy and methodology
  • (German) memorialisation and political discussion in the digital world
  • Literature & film

I am currently chairing a research group at the OU investigatingÌýthe role and function of web-based machine translation tools inÌýlanguage learning. In line with the OU’s responsibilityÌýto pioneer the development of language teaching as well as digital learning methodology, weÌýattempt to find new ways to incorporate this technology into language teaching and assessment.Ìý

Together with Andrew Gargett and Ursula Stickler (both OU), I am editing a special edition of CALICO onÌýWeb-based Machine translation in language teaching.

Upcoming publications include:

  • 'Machine translation in language learning, teaching and assessment', in: BloomsburyÌýHandbook of Language Learning and Technology, edited by Regine Hampel and Ursula Stickler (with Andrew Gargett)
  • A series of 3 articles on machine translation tools in language learning, teaching, and assessment for language learners and teachers on OpenLearn

Teaching interests

German Literature and Culture across all levels.

I have extensive experience in supervising Master, Ed.D and PhD students in the area of German literature and culture as well as language teaching methology.

Impact and engagement

I am one of the founding members and key authors of the ToolkitÌý‘Taking your Language Learning Online’Ìý(). Faced with the challenges of the COVID-19 crisis, a team of experts from the OU founded thisÌýgroundbreaking project toÌýsupport our Higher Education colleagues all across the world.ÌýWe created a free resource for Higher Education language teachers, designed with a strong focus on practical advice, in order to help them to quickly learn how to teach languages with the technology available and to overcome technical as well as pedagogical and pastoral challenges. The Toolkit was recognized by the Global Open Education Practice Graduate Network (GO-GN), which awarded our team the 2020 Fred Mulder award for Best Open Practice.

External collaborations

Together with Professor Stefan Neuhaus (Koblenz) and Professor Christiane Schönfeld (Limerick), I amÌýchairingÌýthe sectionÌý"Literatur auf der Kinoleinwand zu Krisenzeiten" at the 2025 conference of theÌýInternationale Vereinigung für GermanistikÌýin Graz.

I am an active member of

  • WIGS (Women in German Studies, which I also supported as treasurer from 2010-13)
  • Deutsche Germanistenvereinigung
  • Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik

Publications

(2025)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina; Stickler, Ursula and Gargett, Andrew
CALICO Journal, 42(1) (i-viii)

(2022)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina; Stickler, Ursula and Winchester, Susanne
Open Learning: The Journal of Open, Distance and e-learning, 37(3) (pp. 288-304)

(2017)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina
Oxford German Studies, 46(1) (pp. 106-120)

(2011-04)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina
German Life and Letters, 64(2) (pp. 217-234)

(2011-01-01)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina
New Readings, 11 (pp. 66-83)

(2010-06)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina
Monatshefte für deutschsprachige Literatur und Kultur, 102(2) (pp. 162-176)

(2007-04)
Von Lindeiner, Karina
German Life and Letters, 60(2) (pp. 212-224)

(2012-12-20)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina
ISBN : 978-3826049705 | Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann | Published : Würzburg

(2006)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina
ISBN : 978-3826034480 | Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann | Published : Würzburg

(2024)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina and Gargett, Andrew
In: Stickler, Ursula and Hampel, Regine eds. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Language Learning and Technology. Bloomsbury Handbooks (pp. 198-211)
ISBN : 9781350340329 | Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing | Published : London, UK

(2023-04-20)
Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina von; Pulker, Hélène and Vialleton, Elodie
In: Stickler, Ursula and Emke, Martina eds. Online Language Teaching: Crises and Creativities. Developing Online Language Pedagogies
ISBN : 9781914291173 | Publisher : Castledown | Published : London

(2016-05-01)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina
In: Max, Katrin ed. Tendenzen und Perspektiven der gegenwärtigen DDR-Literatur-Forschung
ISBN : 978-3826054365 | Publisher : Königshausen und Neumann

(2016)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina
In: Max, Katrin ed. Tendenzen und Perspektiven der gegenwärtigen DDR-Literatur-Forschung (pp. 277-293)
ISBN : 978-3826054365 | Publisher : Königshausen & Neumann | Published : Würzburg

(2013)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina
In: von Hoff, Dagmar ed. Poetiken des Auf und Umbruchs (pp. 85-98)
ISBN : 978-3-653-02944-4 | Publisher : Martin Meidenbauer

(2013)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina
In: Ó Dochartaigh, Pól and Schönfeld, Christiane eds. Representing the Good: German in Literature and Culture After 1945: Altruism and Moral Ambiguity (pp. 29-49)
ISBN : 978-1571134981 | Publisher : Camden House / Boydell & Brewer

(2009-01-01)
Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina
In: Evelein, Johannes F. ed. Exiles Traveling: Exploring Displacement, Crossing Boundaries in German Exile Arts and Writings 1933-1945 (pp. 347-367)
ISBN : 978-9042025400 / 978-90-420-2876-0 | Publisher : Rodopi | Published : Amsterdam

(2008)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina
In: von der Lühe, Irmela and Amthor, Wiebke eds. Auf der Suche nach einem Weg. Forschungen zu Leben und Werk Klaus Manns (pp. 173-186)
ISBN : 978-3631567586 | Publisher : Peter Lang

(2020)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina; Pulker, Hélène; Bárkányi, Zsuzsanna; Pleines, Christine and Vialleton, Elodie
Open Learn Create

(2017)
von Lindeiner-Stráský, Karina
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