Susanne Oberholzer studied Italian Language and Literature, German Linguistics and Modern Nordic Philology at the University of Zurich. She subsequently completed her doctoral studies in German Linguistics at the Universities of Zurich and Vienna, and was awarded her PhD in 2015 by the University of Zurich for a thesis on language use and attitudes towards language among Swiss German clergy.
Following a post on a DFG project at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, she undertook research stays at the Universities of Salzburg and Vienna, as well as holding posts at the University of Zurich and a university of teacher education. She teaches Germanic linguistics at various Swiss universities. In her habilitation project, Susanne Oberholzer is investigating the spectrum of linguistic variation in the Grisons municipality of Samnaun.
