Lucia Assenzi

@lassenzi.bsky.social

Post-doc @ uni Innsbruck - Historical sociolinguistics & reported discourse enthusiast - I also like normal things, like metroidvania videogames, books, and having a work-life balance

I'm offering a 3-year PhD position with benefits (1-year extension possible). Research topic open but broadly in incremental sentence comprehension. If you're into eye-tracking, even better! No teaching until Summer 2027, light teaching after that (English). Official ad soon. Please share 🙏

Did I once again forget I have a bluesky account? Of course. And did I miss the opportunity to say that I'd be at the #DGfS2025 too? You bet. 🫠 Well, thank you if you were at my talk, and if you weren't but want to know more about strange things quotes do, drop me a line 😎

Picture of the first slide of the presentation "Mixed, scare or a secret third thing? Ambiguous quotations in German newspapers" held by Lucia Assenzi at the conference of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft in Mainz 2025

Things that capitalism made worse: newspapers. From the 19th century onwards, 80% of all articles in 'serious' newspapers talk about money, economy, investments, money, and money instead of WHAT WIG DID PRINCESS DUNQUILIA OF STOCAZZENSTEIN WEAR AT THE BALL or WHO ARRIVED AT COURT YESTERDAY 1/2

Reading this brilliant paper by J. Vanderbiesen and thinking: 1. I must find the time to write my "reported discourse is a spectrum" paper; 2. Academia has lost/is losing many brilliant researchers working on the topics I love (reported discourse, historical newspapers) and I am furious about it

Tablet displaying Jeroen Vanderbiesen's paper "Mixed viewpoints and the quotative-reportive cline in German". Mountains in the background, viewed from a train window

So, who am I. A first gen academic who didn't know of the existence of phd programs until her last year in undergraduate school, crippled by impostor syndrome, unfitting for the diplomatic intricacies of academia, yet somehow still here? Ah yes, and a linguist (also quite unexpectedly?) 🤔