Activities at FHNW
- Head of English and English Lecturer at the FHNW Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Jointly responsible for the study programme Data Science & Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability
Teaching
- English in context modules
- Project track: communication coach, academic writing coach and adviser in energy and environmental technology
- Project track: English coach in electrical engineering
- Communication coach English/German in Data Science
- Academic writing in Data Science
Profile
Biography
Since 2018
English Lecturer at the FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland,
School of Engineering and Environment, Windisch
2010 - 2017
PhD English Linguistics, Prof. Dr. Miriam Locher and Prof. Dr. Lorenza Mondada, University of Basel, Switzerland (insigni cum laude)
2008 - 2010
Master of Arts, English (Major), Spanish (Minor) at the University of Basel (summa cum laude)
2006 - 2007
Spanish studies at the University of Granada
2003 - 2008
Bachelor of Arts in English and Spanish studies at the University of Basel (insigni cum laude)
Publications
Rudolf von Rohr, M.-T. (2015). 'You will be glad you hung onto this quit': Sharing information and giving support when stopping smoking online. In: C. A. Smith and A. Keselman (eds.), Meeting Health Information Needs Outside of Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenge, 263-290. Waltham, MA: Chandos Publishing.
Rudolf von Rohr, M-T. (2017). 'If you start again, don't worry. You haven’t failed' Relapse talk and motivation in online smoking cessation. Linguistics Online, 87(8/17), 87-105.
Rudolf von Rohr, M.-T. (2018). Persuasion in smoking cessation online (PhD). Freiburg: Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg. Open access.
Rudolf von Rohr, M.-T., & Locher, M.A. (2020). The interpersonal effects of complimenting others and self-praise in online health environments. In Placencia M.-E., Das A., & Eslami Z.R. (Eds.), María Elena Placencia, Anupam Das, & Zohreh R. Eslami (Eds.), Complimenting behaviour across social media: New contexts and emerging trends. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Rudolf von Rohr, M.-T., Thurnherr, F. & Locher, M. A. (2019) ‘Linguistic expert creation in online health practices’, in Bou-Franch, P. and Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (eds) Analysing digital discourse: new insights and future directions. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 219-250.
Thurnherr, F., Rudolf von Rohr, M.-T. & Locher, M. A. (2016) ‘The functions of narrative passages in three written online health contexts’, Open Linguistics. de Gruyter, 2(2), pp. 450-470.
Thurnherr, F., Rudolf von Rohr, M.-T. & Locher, M. A. (2020) ‘Introduction to reprint “The functions of narrative passages in three written online health contexts”’, in Demjen, Z. (ed.) Contemporary Applied Linguistics in Illness and Healthcare Contexts. London: Bloomesbury, pp. 186-188.
Wiederkehr, R., & Rudolf von Rohr, M.-T. (2020). Technical Writing as Part of Project Management for Engineers: Using a Writing-Process Approach to Teach Disciplinary Writing Requirements. Journal of Academic Writing, 10(1), 136-145.
McMenamin, J., & Rudolf von Rohr, M.-T. (2021). Private online channels and student-centred interaction. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 22, Article 22.