Professurvertreter

Prof. Dr. Ricardo Römhild

Telefon: +49(0)851/509-2818

Raum: PHIL 270

Professur für Didaktik der Englischen Sprache, Literatur und Kultur

Lebenslauf

Ricardo Römhild completed his studies of English, Geography, and Educational Studies at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in 2015. He has gained experience as an educator for English (as a foreign language), Geography, and German (as a second/foreign language), teaching at secondary and tertiary levels in Germany and in the USA, including as a Fulbright Teaching Assistant at Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA.

Ricardo joined the English Language Education team at the University of Münster in October 2018 and completed his PhD project (title: Documentaries for a Change – Cultivating Global Citizenship Education through Eco-Documentaries in the English Language Classroom).

His research interests include cultural learning & global citizenship education, language education for sustainable development, hopeful approaches to language pedagogy, teaching and learning with media & (documentary) film as well as Global Englishes Language Teaching.

Ricardo serves as a coordinator for the German branch of the ELINET network.
He currently serves as acting professor for English language education at the University of Passau.

Professional Development
2024 - present	Acting Professor, Chair of English Language Education, University of Passau
2022 - 2024	Postdoctoral Researcher, Lecturer at Chair of English Language Education, English Department, University of Münster 09/2024 – Research & Cooperation Trip to University of California Los Angeles, Soka University of the Americas, University of San Francisco, University of California Berkeley, and Columbia University, USA 03/2024 – Visiting Researcher and Lecturer at UNESCO Chair for Global Citizenship Education in Higher Education, University of Bologna, Italy
2018 - 2022	PhD Student (dissertation title: Documentaries for a Change – Cultivating Global Citizenship Education through Eco-Documentaries in the English Language Classroom; Prof. Dr. Frauke Matz, University of Münster; Prof. Dr. Laurenz Volkmann, FSU Jena), Research Assistant, Lecturer at Chair of English Language Education, English Department, University of Münster 08/2021 - 12/2021 – Research Fellow at College of Education, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA 05/2022 – Visiting Researcher and Lecturer at English Department, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
2018	Teacher for German as a Second Language, Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Neuwied
2016 - 2018	Teacher Trainee for English, Geography, and CLIL; Second State Exam; Studienseminar Koblenz / Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Neuwied
2015 - 2016	Fulbright German Teaching Assistant; Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA, USA
2010 - 2015	Student of English/American Studies, Geography, and Educational Studies; First State Exam [M.Ed.]; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Memberships

Publikationen

Books

Monographs

Römhild, R. (2024). Global Citizenship Education im Fremdsprachenunterricht. Tübingen: Narr Verlag. (Link to website)

Römhild, R. (2023). Global Citizenship, Ecomedia, and English Language Education. London/Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44674-0

Edited volumes / special issues

Römhild, R., Marxl, A., Matz, F. & Siepmann, P. (Eds.) (2023). Rethinking Cultural Learning – Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education. Trier: WVT. (Link to website)

Articles

Peer reviewed journal articles

Matz, F., & Römhild, R. (2024). Critical Language Education for Peace: On the Significance of Communicative Agency for Education for Human Rights, Peace, and Sustainable Development. International Journal of Human Rights Education, 8(1), 1-26. Open Access

Reckermann, J., Römhild, R. & Schildhauer, P. (2024). Englisch und Französisch als globale Sprachen: Die Bildungsstandards zwischen Tradition und Innovation. Zeitschrift für Fremdsprachenforschung, 35(1), 23-38. (plus open access Anhang unter https://www.doi.org/10.17879/57998429006)

Römhild, R. (2024). Concepts of Film Literacies in (English) Language Education: A Critical Discourse Overview. Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 49(1), 107-137. https://doi.org/10.24053/AAA-2024-0005

Römhild, R. (2024): The Sound of Curricular Silence – A Critical Review of Germany's Foreign Language Curriculum. Policy & Practice: A Development Education Review, 39, 101-116. Open Access

Römhild, R. & Weik von Mossner, A. (2024): "The Case for Hope in Language Education: Exploring Solarpunk for the English Language Classroom.“ In: World Futures, 1-19. http://doi.org/10.1080/02604027.2024.2417042

Römhild, R. (2023). Learning languages of hope and advocacy – human rights perspectives in language education for sustainable development. Human Rights Education Review 6(1), 9-29. http://doi.org/10.7577/hrer.5192

Marxl, A. & Römhild, R. (2023). Kritische Diskursfähigkeit im Fremdsprachenunterricht – Ein Beitrag zur Ausdifferenzierung eines Leitkonzepts schulischer Bildung. Fremdsprachen Lehren Und Lernen (FLuL) 52/1, 102-117. https://doi.org/10.24053/FLuL-2023-0008

Siepmann, P., Rumlich, D., Matz, F. & Römhild, R. (2021). Attention to diversity in German CLIL classrooms: multi-perspective research on students’ and teachers’ perceptions“. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2021.1981821

Further articles

2024

Becker, D., Matz, F., & Römhild, R. (2024). Teachers as "Change Agents" in a world of uncertainty: Designing a "Resilient Path" for the education of (foreign language) teachers. In S. Braselmann, L. Eibensteiner, & L. Volkmann (Eds.), Teacher education in (post-)pandemic and (post-)digital times - International perspectives on intercultural learning, diversity, and equity. Peter Lang, 41-57.

Matz, F. & Römhild, R. (2024). Courage, Defiance and Resistance: Children's Rights Education Through (Non-)Fictional YA Radical Texts in the English Language Classroom. In Matz, F. & Norrick-Rühl, C. (Eds.). Focus on Reading Young Adult (YA) Literature in the EFL Classroom and Beyond. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 35.2. Winter, 115-131. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2024/2/11

2023

Marxl, A. & Römhild, R. (2023). Cosmopolitan Minds, Global Discourses, and the Significance of Language Education. In: Römhild, R., Marxl, A., Matz, F. & Siepmann, P. (Eds.). Rethinking Cultural Learning – Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education. WVT, 81-98.

Reckermann, J. & Römhild, R. (2023). Observation Research – Systematische Beobachtung als praxisnahe Empirie im Praxissemester Anglistik. In Peuker, B., Busker, M., Rautenstrauch H. & Winkel, J. (Eds.). Forschendes Lernen in der fach- und fachrichtungsbezogenen, universitären Lehrkräftebildung (pp. 16-25). wbg. Open Access

Römhild, R. & Meer, P. (2023). Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Citizenship Education. Current Trajectories and Alternative Perspectives. In Römhild, R., Marxl, A., Matz, F. & Siepmann, P. (Eds.), Rethinking Cultural Learning – Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education. WVT, 137-153.

Römhild, R., Siepmann, P. & Bruns, J. (2023). English Language Education for Sustainable Development. In Römhild, R., Marxl, A., Matz, F. & Siepmann, P. (Eds.), Rethinking Cultural Learning – Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education. WVT, 209-227.

Siepmann, P., Römhild, R., Marxl, A., Becker, D. & Matz, F. (2023). (Re-)Discovering Cosmopolitanism for Language Education: An Introduction. In Römhild, R., Marxl, A., Matz, F. & Siepmann, P. (Eds.), Rethinking Cultural Learning – Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education. WVT, 1-18.

2022

Marxl, A. & Römhild, R. (2022). Kritische fremdsprachliche Diskursfähigkeit – Ein Beitrag zur Standortbestimmung und -erweiterung eines Kernziels fremdsprachlicher Bildung. In E. Wilden, L. Alfes, K. Cantone-Altintas, S. Cikrikci, & D. Reimann (Eds.), Standortbestimmungen. 29. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung in Essen. 22.-24. September 2021. Kongressband. Reihe Beiträge zur Fremdsprachenforschung (pp. 212-227). WBV, 212-227.

Römhild, R. (2022). Agency, Interactivity, Participation – Creating Hybrid Learning Spaces with Interactive Documentaries.In Becker, D. & Matz, F. (Eds.). Video Games and English Language Education / Designing Hybrid Learning Spaces. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 33.1. Winter, 223-239. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2022/1/17

Römhild, R. & Gaudelli, W. (2022). Target Country, Target Culture – Rethinking Cultural Learning in Language Education for Sustainable Development. In Bartosch, R. & Ludwig, C. (Eds.). English for Sustainability. Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies 33.3. Winter, 15-32. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2022/3/5

2021

Römhild, R. (2021). Climate-Change as Quality Education. In Bartosch, R. (Ed.). Cultivating Sustainability in Language and Literature Pedagogy. Steps to an Educational Ecology (pp. 13-26). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429328985

Roemhild, R. & Gaudelli, W. (2021). Climate-Change as Quality Education. Global Citizenship Education as a Pathway to Meaningful Change. In Iyengar, R. & Kwauk, C. (Eds.). Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action: Toward an SDG 4.7 Roadmap for Systems Change (pp. 104-119). UNESCO-IBE Book Series. Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004471818_007

Römhild, R. & Matz, F. (2021). Cultural Learning for and through Global Englishes. In Callies, M. / Hehner, S. / Meer, P. / Westphal, M. (Eds.). Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New perspectives for teaching and teacher education in Germany (pp. 139-157). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003090106

Teaching Practice

Edited issues

Römhild, R. & Surkamp, C. (Eds.) (2024). Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch (FUE): Language of hope & advocacy (191). (Link to website)

König, L., Römhild, R. & Schildhauer, P. (Eds.). (2023). Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch (FUE): Global Englishes (183). (Link to website)

Römhild, R. & Matz, F. (2021) (Eds.). Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch (FUE): Black Lives Matter (173). (Link to website)

Articles

Römhild, R. & Surkamp, C. (2024): "Languages of hope and advocacy. Sprachliches, literarisches und kulturelles Lernen fördern, Zukunft gestalten“. In: Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch: Language of hope & advocacy (191), 2-7.

Römhild, R. & Surkamp, C. (2024): „Solarpunk futures and how to get there. Mit einem Mystery Leerstellen in einer Solarpunk short story füllen“. In: Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch: Language of hope & advocacy(191), 38-47.

Römhild, R. (2024): „How, if we act now, we can yet put it right. Erzähl- und Argumentationsstrategien im Dokumentarfilm A Life on Our Planet analysieren“. In: Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch: Language of hope & advocacy (191), 26-30.

Reckermann, J. & Römhild, R. (2024). English as Lingua Franca in Sports and Beyond. Mit Kindern über Englisch als Lingua franca sprechen. Grundschule Englisch, 88, 28-29.

Römhild, R. (2023). "AI for the Greater Good. Mit einer KI Titelbilder für Sustainable Development Goal 18 erstellen“. In: Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch: Assessment (186), 46-48.

Römhild, R. (2023). Advocating Animal Rights – Mit dem Format 13 Questions eine strukturierte Debatte zum Thema Tierrechte führen. In: Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch: Animals (185), 24-30.

Römhild, R. (2023). Methode im Fokus: Mediale Repräsentationen von Tieren analysieren. In: Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch: Animals (185), 7-9.

Römhild, R. (2023). Why is the sky blue? Wortschatzarbeit: Sachverhalte adressatengerecht erklären. Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch: Digitale Aufgaben, Lernprozesse und -produkte (184), 47-48.

König, L., Reckermann, J., Römhild, R. & Schildhauer, P. (2023). Global Englishes Language Teaching. Diskursfähigkeit, Sprachbewusstheit und Kommunikationsstrategien für den Umgang mit Varieties of English erwerben. In: Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch: Global Englishes (183), 2-7.

Römhild, R. (2021). Methode im Fokus: Einen Zeitstrahl verlebendigen. In: Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch: Black Lives Matter (173), 8-12.

Römhild, R. & Matz, F. (2021). This is not a moment, it’s a movement - Kritische Diskursfähigkeit am Thema Black Lives Matter fördern. In: Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch: Black Lives Matter (173), 2-7.

Matz, F. & Römhild, R. (2021). A letter to my future self. Video-Performances zu Umweltproblemen Impulse für persönliche Reflexionen entnehmen. Englisch 5-10 (03/55), 12-15.

Römhild, R. (2021). Experience, interact, immerse yourself! 360°-Filme zu sustainable development-Fragen in Nigeria reflektieren. Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch 169 [Documentaries], 33-39.

Römhild, R. (2021). The growing giant - describing and explaining the demographic development of Nigeria." In Siepmann, P. & Matz, F. (Eds.). AbiBox - Voices from the African continent: Focus on Nigeria. Hannover: Brinkmann Meyhöfer, 24-31.

Marxl, A. & Römhild, R. (2021): An oil spill disaster - a mediation tutorial. In Siepmann, P. & Matz, F. (Eds.). AbiBox - Voices from the African continent: Focus on Nigeria. Hannover: Brinkmann Meyhöfer, 44-60.

Römhild, R. (2020). #FridaysForFun. Den eigenen Standpunkt in einem Interview zum Fridays for Future-Streik vertreten. Englisch 5-10, 49, 20-23.

Römhild, R. (2020). Cue Cards: Good Morning, Good Night. Englisch 5-10, 49.

Römhild, R. (2020). Just Food: Coping with the Crisis. Exploring Nigeria through a 360° i-Documentary. Englisch betrifft uns, 2/2020, 21-25.

Marxl, A. & Römhild, R. (2020). 'The Deniers‘? - Reading Websites Critically: www.beforetheflood.com. Englisch betrifft uns, 1/2020, 21-25.

Römhild, R. (2019). #fakenews. Information Flow in the Virtual Universe. Englisch betrifft uns, 6/2019, 21-25.

Römhild, R. (2019). Picking up Rocks. Englisch betrifft uns, 5/2019, 7-12.

Römhild, R. (2019). Changing Perspectives. From husband to wife in M. Bail's 'The Drover's Wife'. Englisch betrifft uns,4/2019, 7-12.

Ernst, J. & Römhild, R. (2019). Getting to Know a Human Rights Activist: Rosa Parks. From Adolescence to Adulthood. Englisch betrifft uns, 3/2019, 1-6.

Römhild, R. (2019). The $20 Bill Debate. Forming an opinion based on internet research. Englisch betrifft uns, 3/2019, 21-25.

Reviews, encyclopedia entries, etc.

Römhild, R. (2022). Review of the book Ökologische Diskurse im Fremdsprachenunterricht, by C. Freudenthal. Germanistik 63/1-2, 100-101.

Forthcoming

Edited volumes / special Issues

Gaudelli, W. & Römhild, R. (Eds.) (forthcoming, 2026). Elgar Handbook of Global Citizenship Education. Cheltenham: Edgar Elgar Publishing.

Reckermann, J. & Römhild, R. (Eds.) (forthcoming, 2026): Advances and Current Research in Global Englishes Language Teaching: Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. London: Bloomsbury Academics.

Römhild, R. (Ed.) (forthcoming, 2025). Englisch 5-10: Documentaries (70).

Römhild, R. & Sgolik, J. (Eds.) (forthcoming, 2025). Media Literacy in Language (Teacher) Education. Special Issue of Journal of Media Literacy Education, 17(3).

Peer reviewed articles

Römhild, R. & Misiaszek, G. (forthcoming, 2025): “Are human rights enough? – Extending the HRE framework through ecopedagogical perspectives.“ In: Human Rights Education Review.

Further articles

Basseler, M., Braselmann, S. & Römhild, R. (forthcoming). Fremdsprachliche Literatur- und Kulturdidaktik im Spannungsfeld zwischen Discomfort, Hope und Gutem Leben: Ein dreistimmiger Debattenbeitrag. In: König, L., Schädlich, B. & Surkamp, C. (eds.). unterricht_kultur_theorie II. Kulturelles Lernen interdisziplinär weiterdenken: Fremdsprachenforschung, Kulturwissenschaften, Erziehungswissenschaften. Likus. Berlin: J.B. Metzler.

Römhild, R. (forthcoming). Nigeria on Screen. Teaching and Learning with Documentaries in the Digital Age. In Matz, F., Stein, M., & K. Stierstorfer (Eds.). Reading Nigeria. Learning with Nigerian Literature in the EFL Classroom. Stuttgart: Narr Verlag.

Römhild, R. (forthcoming). Sustainability and English Language Education: Taking Action for Socio-Environmental Justice. In Biel, A. & Esleben, F. (Eds.). Taking Action in Language Education: Bringing Social Justice into the Classroom. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.

Römhild, R. (forthcoming): „Dokumentarfilme im Sprachunterricht: Von der Aufhebung der Grenze zwischen Fiktionalem und Non-Fiktionalem hin zu einer Didaktik des Faktionalen.“ In: Mentz, O., Raith, T. & Kulovics, N. (Hrsg.): Kongressband des 30. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung.

Wu, M., Römhild, R. & Nishizaki, M. (forthcoming): “Teaching English as an International Language for Global Citizenship.“ In: Galloway, N. & Selvi, A.F. (eds.): The Routledge Handbook of English as an International Language. New York: Routledge.

Reviews, encyclopedia entries, etc.

Römhild, R. (forthcoming, 2024): Literacy. In: Surkamp, C. (Ed.): Metzler Lexikon Fremdsprachendidaktik. Ansätze – Methoden – Grundbegriffe, 3. Auflage.

Römhild, R. (forthcoming, 2024): Global Citizenship Education. In: Surkamp, C.(Ed.): Metzler Lexikon Fremdsprachendidaktik. Ansätze – Methoden – Grundbegriffe, 3. Auflage.

Römhild, R. (forthcoming, 2024): Illustrating how it might be done: the whole school approach [Review of the book Global Citizenship Education in Praxis, by A. Schultz & M. Blom (eds.)]. Human Rights Education Review.

Römhild, R. (forthcoming): Beiträge zu einer Sprachbildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (Bericht über Symposium). In: Mentz, O., Raith, T. & Kulovics, N. (eds.): Kongressband des 30. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung.

Schwerpunkte

cultural learning & global citizenship education
critical theories of (language) education
hopeful language pedagogy
language education for sustainable development
teaching and learning with media and (documentary) film
Global Englishes in ELT
theoretical/conceptual research in language education and pedagogy

Lehrveranstaltungen

Wintersemester 2024/25

Sommersemester 2024

46471 Pflichtseminar: Überblick über Themenfelder der englischen Fachdidaktik - Error Correction, Feedback and Assessment in the EFL Classroom