Susanne Oberholzer studied Italian Linguistics and Literature, German Linguistics and Modern Nordic Philology at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). She completed her doctorate in German Linguistics at the University of Zurich in 2015 on the language use and language attitudes of Swiss-German pastors and subsequently worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Munich (DFG project VerbaAlpina), Salzburg and Vienna (Early Postdoc.Mobility, Swiss National Science Foundation) and Zurich (Forschungskredit UZH) as well as at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden (at the special professorship for multilingual didactics, Romansh). In her habilitation project, Susanne Oberholzer is researching the spectrum of linguistic variation in the Graubünden municipality of Samnaun. She is an associated researcher at the German Department of the University of Zurich and will be teaching at the University of Bern and the University of Basel in the spring semester of 2024.
