Teaching

courses taught at the University of Bremen (2015-2019): 
Language and Gender (2 hours/week)
Applied perspectives to Postcolonial Languages (2 hours/week)
Ecolinguistics: ecological approaches to language studies (2 hours/week)
Lecture series Changing ecologies: language, culture and the environment organized with prof. Eeva Sippola
Applied perspectives to Postcolonial Languages (2 hours/week)
Themes in Critical Discourse Analysis (2 hours/week)

courses taught at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg (2014-2017):
Sustainability in a Postcolonial World (with Norman Laws, 2 hours/week)
Gender and Diversity in Critical Language Awareness (2 hours/week)
Sustainability in Critical Language Awareness (2 hours/week)
Critical Language Awareness (2 hours/week)
Sustainability in discourse – who says what why? (2 hours/week)

courses taught at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland (2008-2012): 
Practical Latvian, advanced (1 hour/week)
Translation Studies (2 hours/week)
Introduction to Baltic States (2 hours/week)
Culture of Contemporary Latvia (2 hours/week)
Practical Latvian, intermediate (6 hours/week)
Practical Latvian, advanced (2 hours/week)
Practical Latvian, beginners (4 hours/week)

invited lectures for students: 
2017/07/05
Invited presentation of the current postdoctoral project to a visiting group of students from the Bergische Universität Wuppertal

2017/05/29
2016/05/09, 23
2015/05/08, 15
Invited lectures on Discourse Analysis within the BA seminar “Theories and Methods of Sustainability Politics” taught by Norman Laws, Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany

2014/05/13
Lecture “Central and Eastern European social media discourse in the context of post-socialist transformation” within the Erasmus Teaching Week, Rīga Stradiņš University, Latvia

involvement in student conferences: 
2017/02/28 - 03/02
Conference Week “Was macht die Welt gerecht?” at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany - chairing project group sessions (presentations of students’ projects)
- preparing and chairing a World café session (with prof. Anna Barron)

2016/02/23 - 25
Conference Week “Wie wollen wir 2030 leben?” at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany
- chairing project group sessions (presentations of students’ projects)
- preparing and chairing the plenary discussion with invited guest, Kosovar journalist and human rights activist Visar Duriqi (with Norman Laws)

2015/02/24 - 26
Conference Week “Klima. Wandel. Gerechtigkeit” at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany
- chairing project group sessions (presentations of students’ projects)
- preparing and chairing a discussion on advantages and disadvantages of method-oriented and problem-oriented seminars (with Norman Laws)

additional teaching training: 
2015/06/11
Participation in the Webinar on peer instruction and interactive teaching with Eric Mazur, Harvard University

2009/05/08
Participation in “A Step Ahead Festival” for language teachers organized by Pearson Longman, British Council and IATEFL, Poznań

development of teaching methods: 
2015/04/14
Participation as an invited expert in a Brown Bag Seminar on intercultural aspects of teaching in English at Leuphana University

2007-2008
Participation in a project of preparing a textbook for university students of Latvian (authors: Inga Klēvere-Wälchli and Nicole Nau), supported by the Latvian National Agency of the State Language

administrative duties related to teaching: 
coordination of the BA Empiriemodul (empirical module) and of the BA LS2 module (Language sciences 2), University of Bremen