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CV

10/2018-03/2023
Bachelor's degree programme in general and comparative linguistics, political science, German language and literature, University of Regensburg
02/2020-01/2021Study abroad, Korea University, Seoul
06/2020-08/2020Researcher, Hanns Seidel Foundation, Seoul
08/2023-10/2023Internship PSCORE Seoul (NGO for human rights in North Korea)
02/2024-04/2025Assistant International Office, University of Regensburg
04/2023-09/2025Master's programme in democracy studies, University of Regensburg
05/2025-07/2025Internship at the German Federal Foreign Office, Indo-Pacific Department
since 10/2025Assistant professor, Institute of Political Science, Chair of Comparative Politics (specialising in Europe), University of Regensburg

Research

Language policy

Authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships

Korea/Indopacific

Master's thesis: "Shaping Thought, Sustaining Rule: The Evolution of North Korea's

Language Policies under Totalitarianism"

Teaching

Lecture series "ChatGPT from a linguistics perspective" (IIMSK) (summer semester 2023)

Basic course "Introduction to the Comparison of Western Governmental Systems" (WiSe 25/26)

Publications

Wellner, Teresa (2023) Towards a taxonomy of hedging devices in Standard German. Regensburg: University of Regensburg, Regensburg Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 26. DOI: 10.5283/epub.54100.

Seliger, Bernhard; Glenk, Felix; Wellner, Teresa (2021) 'North Korea's New Social Media Policies: More Openness or just Better Propaganda?', Journal of Peace and Unification, 11(2), pp. 97-119. DOI: 10.31780/jpu.2021.11.2.97.

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