CV
1995 - 2005
English Studies and Classical Philology (Latin) at University of Bamberg and Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Oct. 2000
Major: English Linguistics and Medieval Studies; University of Bamberg, Germany
16.12.2005
PhD in English Linguistics; Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany;
Thesis title: “Women and Men Like Different Things”? Doing Gender as a Strategy of Advertising Language – (“summa cum laude”).
20.06.2012
Venia legendi: English Linguistics; Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Germany;
Thesis title: “Language and European Identity Formation”
2002
PhD research grant of the Federal State of Bavaria/Germany (not accepted)
Feb. 2006
Certificate: Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, Cornelia Goethe Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (Frankfurt am Main University, Germany)
Dec. 2006
Science Prize of the Cornelia Goethe Center for Women’s and Gender Studies (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main) for the PhD thesis
July - Sept. 2013
Visiting Researcher, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK
Nov. 2014
Appointment: Professorship of English Linguistics (W2), University of Paderborn, Germany (not assumed)
Oct. 2017
Appointment: Full Professor of English as a Second/Foreign Language, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
Nov. 2017 - Oct. 2020
Marie Curie Global Fellowship (EU-funded) for the project “Linguistic Dimensions of Sexual Normativity” [LIDISNO]; in collaboration with Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton FL, USA, and Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany
Nov. 2017 - Oct. 2019
Visiting Researcher, Department of Language, Linguistics and Comparative Literature, Florida Atlantic University, USA
General Editor: Journal of Language and Sexuality (John Benjamins), with Prof. William L. Leap (American University, Washington DC)
Member of the Editorial Board: Journal “Gender and Language” (Equinox)
Member of the Scientific Committee: Journal “GLAD – Language, Gender and Sexualities/Revue sur le langage, le genre, les sexualités” (MSH Paris Nord)
Member of the Advisory Board: YLMP – Young Linguists’ Meeting in Poznan
Member of the Scientific Committee: Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference
Member of the Editorial Board: Language Teaching Research Quarterly (European Knowledge Development)
Member of the Editorial Board: Names – A Journal of Onomastics (Taylor & Francis)
International Gender and Language Association [IGALA]
Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik [GAL]
International Society for the Linguistics of English [ISLE]
International Association of Applied Linguistics [AILA]
International Pragmatics Association [IPrA]
DiscourseNet
Eurovision Research Network [ERN]
International Network of Address Research [INAR]
Deutscher Hochschulverband [DHV]