CV

01/2024

01-05/2023

01-05/2022

01-05/2021

04/2020-

2018-2021

2016-2018

2014-2016

10/2009-9/2011

2007-2010

Visiting Professor, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies,  Japan

Senior Visiting Fellow, National University of Singapore

Senior Visiting Fellow, National University of Singapore

Senior Visiting Fellow, National University of Singapore

Emeritus Professor (retired fromChair)

Past President, ISLE

President, International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE)

President-Elect, ISLE

Dean, University of Regensburg, Faculty for Linguistics, Literatures nd Cultural Studies

Studiendekan (Associate Dean for Student Affairs), University of
Regensburg, Faculty of Languages and Literatures

03/2008

Visiting Research Fellow, Auckland University of Technology, NZ

2004

Chair offered by University of Munich; declined

1996

Chair offered by University of Frankfurt; declined

1993 - 2020

Full Professor in English Linguistics and Head of the Linguistics section
of the English Department, University of Regensburg

1992

Chair offered by University of Augsburg; declined

1989-1992

Full Professor in English Linguistics, Free University of Berlin

1988-1989

Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

1988

Awarded "Heisenberg research grant" by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

1988

One term substitute of full professorship at University of Trier

1987

Habilitation (postdoctoral degree), University of Bamberg; promotion to "Privatdozent" status

1981

Ph.D. / Dr. phil., University of Bamberg

1979-1988

Lecturer and research assistant / Assistant Professor, English Linguistics; University of Bamberg, Germany

1978

M.A., University of Graz, Austria

1972-1978

Studied sociology, English and German language and literature; University of Graz, Austria

            1954

Born in Kirchdorf, Austria