Jun.-Prof.

Irene Heidt, Ph.D.


Institut für Mehrsprachigkeit

Juniorprofessorin


Jun.-Prof. Irene Heidt, Ph.D.

Institut für Mehrsprachigkeit | Juniorprofessorin

Organisation

Pädagogische Hochschule Karlsruhe

Gebäude

3

Raum

302

Erreichbarkeit

Office Hours:
Wednesdays, 3:30 – 4:30 PM
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Professional Appointments

10/2025 - today

 

Junior Professor (Juniorprofessorin) for Literary and Cultural Studies and TEFL in Primary Education, PH Karlsruhe 

04/2025 – 09/2025

Project Leader, DAAD-funded project
Grundschullehramt Goes East and Beyond – LeBe@BTU
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg

09/2023 – 03/2025

Substitute Professor (Vertretungsprofessorin, W3)
English and English Language Education in Primary School
BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg

  • Recipient of the 2024 Teaching Award (Lehrpreis 2024) for excellence in university teaching 

 01/2021 – 08/2023

 

Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Secondary English Language Education (Prof. Dr. Freitag-Hild)
University of Potsdam

08/2020 – 07/2023

Teacher of English and Fine Arts (bilingual)
Paul-Natorp-Gymnasium, Berlin

04/2019 – 12/2020

Researcher and Lecturer (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin)
Department of Primary and Secondary English Language Education
(Prof. Dr. Jana Roos, Prof. Dr. Britta Freitag-Hild)
University of Potsdam

2016 – 2018

Lecturer (Lehrbeauftragte)
University of Bremen (Prof. Dr. Doff) and University of Potsdam (Prof. Dr. Freitag-Hild) – Department of TEFL

Education & Professional Development

03/2023 – 03/2024

Higher Education Teaching Training (Hochschuldidaktisches Qualifikationsprogramm)
“Senior Teaching Professionals”
Potsdam Graduate School, University of Potsdam

06/2020

Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics  (specialization in Second and Foreign Language Education), summa cum laude
Hellenic American University, USA
Dissertation: Conflicting Worldviews, Ethical Dilemmas, and Symbolic Power: An Ethnographic Study of Teaching Multilingual Students in the German Bildungssystem

  • Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Claire Kramsch (UC Berkeley, USA), Prof. Dr. Adelheid Hu (University of Luxembourg)
  • Awarded the President’s Award for Academic Achievement

2011 - 2014

Master of Education
University of Bremen
Majors: Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Fine Arts, Educational Science

2008 - 2011

Bachelor of Arts
University of Bremen
Majors:Teaching English as a Foreign Language, Fine Arts, Educational Science

Fellowships & International Experience

  • Ph.D. Fellowship (Promotionsstipendium), Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (2015 – 2017)
  • Visiting Research Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, USA (07/2013 – 01/2014)
  • Semester Abroad, RMIT University, Australia (07/2010 – 01/2011)
  • Teaching Internship Abroad (Auslandspraktikum), German School Washington D.C., USA (01/2010 – 04/2010)
  • Fellowship (lehramtsbezogenes Stipendium), Studienkolleg – Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (2010 – 2014) 

Research Interests

  • Development of critical literacy, symbolic competence, and critical discourse competence in foreign language education
  • Decolonial and antiracist approaches to English Language Education
  • Critical language teacher education
  • Multilingualism
  • Virtual exchange and telecollaboration
  • Critical Global Citizenship Education in EFL classrooms
  • Empirical classroom research

Publications

I. Research Monograph 

  • Heidt, I. (contracted, manuscript submitted). Conflicting worldviews, ethical dilemmas, and symbolic power: An ethnographic study of teaching multilingual students in the German Bildungssystem. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. [series: Language, Education, Diversity]

II. Special Issues

  • Heidt, I. & König, L., Louloudi, E. (eds.) (2026). Critical Literacy. Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch, 199.
  • Heidt, I., König, L., Louloudi, E., Merse, T. (eds.) (2025). Kritische Fremdsprachenlehrkräftebildung. Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen, 54(2).
  • Freitag-Hild, B. & Heidt, I. (eds.) (2025). Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung: Sachtexte. Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch, 194.

III. Book Chapters and Journal Articles 

Forthcoming

  • Heidt, I. (in preparation, 2027). Teaching Issues of Race/ism in the EFL Classroom: Empirical Insights into Challenges and Potentials (working title). In N. Güllü, D. Gerlach, D. Banegas (eds.): Critical Anti-Racist Pedagogies for Language Teacher Education. Bloomsbury.
  • Heidt, I. (in press, 2026). Literatur- und Kulturunterricht macht- und rassismuskritisch denken: Einblicke in Theorie und Empirie. In L. König, B. Schädlich, C. Surkamp (eds.): unterricht_kultur_theorie II. Kulturelles Lernen interdisziplinär weiterdenken. Stuttgart: Metzler.

2026

  • Heidt, I. &  König, L. (2026). Basisartikel. Critical Literacies: Die Welt kritisch ‚lesen’ lernen. Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch, Themenheft 199, 2-7.
  • Heidt, I.: (2026). Methode im Fokus: Critical literacy in vier Schritten fördern. Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch. Themenheft 199, 8-11.
  • Heidt, I.: (2026). Review of the book Visualising Language Students and Teachers as Multilinguals: Advancing Social Justice in Education, by P. Kalaja & Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer. In Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen. 55(1), 150-152.

2025

  • Heidt, I., König, L., Louloudi, E., Merse, T. (2025). Kritische Fremdsprachenlehrer*innenbildung: Internationale Kontextualisierung, konzeptuelle Systematisierung und Desiderate. Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen. 54(2), 89–103. https://doi.org/10.24053/FLuL-2025-0029
  • Heidt, I., König, L., Louloudi, E., Merse, T. (2025). Einführung in das Themenheft, Kritische Fremdsprachenlehrkräftebildung. Fremdsprachen Lehren und Lernen. 54(2), 3-9. DOI 10.24053/FLuL-2025-0023
  • Heidt, I. (2025). Critical language teacher education: Unsettling language and race/ism in a 10th -grade EFL classroom with teacher candidates. Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung, 36(1), 73-89. https://doi.org/10.3278/ZFF2501W006
  • Freitag-Hild, B., Heidt, I. (2025). Basisartikel. Welten erschließen: Sachtexte lesen, reflektieren und produzieren, Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung im Englischunterricht fördern. Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch, 194, 2-8.
  • Heidt, I. (2025). Symbolische Kompetenz. In C. Surkamp (ed.): Metzler Lexikon Fremdsprachendidaktik. Ansätze, Methoden, Grundbegriffe (pp. 465-466). Weimar: J.B. Metzler.
  • Heidt, I. (2025). Critical Literacy. In C. Surkamp (ed.): Metzler Lexikon Fremdsprachendidaktik. Ansätze, Methoden, Grundbegriffe (pp. 58-59). Weimar: J.B. Metzler.
  • Heidt, I., König, L., Louloudi, E., Merse, T. (2025). Kritische Fremdsprachenlehrkräftebildung: Desiderate, Beispiele, Vernetzungsideen. In N. Kulovics, O. Mentz, & T. Raith (eds.): Grenzen, Grenzräume, Entgrenzungen: Perspektiven in der Fremdsprachenforschung (pp. 431-438). Schneider bei wbv.

2024

  • Heidt, I. (2024). “Sulwe was born the color of midnight”: Mit dem Bilderbuch Sulwe über colorism sprechen und in einem Dialog gegen Diskriminierung eintreten (Klassenstufe 5/6). Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch, 191, 11-17.
  • Heidt, I. (2024). Communicating within, between and beyond social categories. In M. Kubanyiova & P. Shetty (eds.): Listening Without Borders: Creating Spaces for Encountering Difference. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. [Together with: Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson, Lara-Stephanie Krause-Alzaidi, Mohasin Ahmed, Dagmar Dyck, Erin Moriarty, Awad Ibrahim, Ana Deumert, Angela Creese, Elisabetta Adami, Gert Biesta, Ingrid Rodrick Beiler, Joke Dewilde, Joseph Valente, Gail Boldt, Maggie Kubanyiova, Quentin Williams, Kate Fellows, Tracey Costley, Colin Reilly, Thandanani Gumede, Thea Pitman, Rae Si'ilata, Nigel Rapport, Helen Finch, Parinita Shetty, Rosine Kelz and Anna Douglas]
  • Heidt, I. (2024). Negotiating discomfort together. In M. Kubanyiova & P. Shetty (eds.): Listening Without Borders: Creating Spaces for Encountering Difference. Bristol: Multilingual Matters. [Together with: Parinita Shetty, Kate Fellows, Lara-Stephanie Krause-Alzaidi, Jonathan Dove, Awad Ibrahim, Sarah-Jane Mason, Charlotta Palmstierna Einarsson, Ana Deumert, Gert Biesta, Erin Moriarty, Amber Galloway-Gallego, Maggie Kubanyiova, Angela Creese and Rosine Kelz]

2023

  • Heidt, I., Freitag-Hild, B. (2023). Critical global citizenship education in the EFL classroom: Developing critical literacy and symbolic competence. In R. Römhild, A. Marxl, F. Matz, P. Siepmann (Eds.): Rethinking Cultural Learning – Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education (pp. 99-114). Trier: WVT.
  • Heidt, I. (2023). Fostering critical language teacher education through autoethnography: Empirical insights into an EFL teacher candidate wrestling with raciolinguistic ideologies and embodied knowledge. In E. Wilden, L. Alfes, K. Cantone-Altintas, S. Çıkrıkçı, & D. Reimann (Eds.): Standortbestimmungen in der Fremdsprachenforschung (pp. 186-199). WBV.

2022

  • Heidt, I. (2022). Fostering symbolic competence in the age of Twitter Politics: A teaching unit on linguistic and political emergencies for learners of English. Anglistik – International Journal of English Studies 33(3), 75-90. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2022/3/8
  • Heidt, I. (2022). When moral authority speaks: Empirical insights into issues of identity and authenticity in multilingual educational settings. In W. Stadler, L. Will & I. Eloff (Eds.): Authenticity across languages and cultures. Themes of identity in foreign language teaching and learning (pp. 165-180). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
  • Bartosch, R., Derichsweiler, S., Heidt, I. (2022). Against „Values“? Komplexe Konflikte, symbolic power und die Aushandlung von Widerstreit. In L. König, B. Schädlich, C. Surkamp (Eds.): unterricht_kultur_theorie – Kulturelles Lernen im Fremdsprachenunterricht gemeinsam anders denken (pp. 73-90). Stuttgart: Metzler.

2020

  • Heidt, I. (2020) Teaching language and culture as discourse through telecollaboration. In T. Giesler & J. Pfingsthorn (Eds.): Masters of Reflective Practice – Abschlussarbeiten in der Englischdidaktik (pp. 165-180). Trier: WVT.

2015

  • Heidt, I. (2015). Exploring the historical dimensions of Bildung and its metamorphosis in the context of globalization. L2 Journal, 7(4), 2-16. https://doi.org/10.5070/L27425457

IV. Scientific Communication / Wissenschaftskommunikation

 

 

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