Academic career
Activities (University of Regensburg: German linguistics and teaching area DaF)
- since 2007 Lecturer for special tasks at the Chair of German Language and Literature, Institute of German Language and Literature.
- 2009-2015 Lecturer in German as a foreign language, Institute of German Language and Literature.
- 2006-2007 Lecturer at the Chair of German Language and Literature, Institute of German Language and Literature.
- since 2003 Lecturer at the Department of German as a Foreign Language, Center for Language and Communication.
Educational background
- 1996 - 2003 Studies in German Language and Literature, British studies, General Linguistics (M.A.) at the University of Regensburg.
- 2002-2003 Lecturer of German at the Institute of German Language and Literature at the University of Opole, Poland (September 2002 - June 2003).
- 2002 Supplementary studies "International competence - Psychology of intercultural behaviour", University/FH Regensburg.
- 2001 Degree in German as a Foreign Language, University of Regensburg.
- 1999-2000 Teaching Assistant at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, USA (July 1999 - May 2000).
Areas of Interest
Linguistics areas of interest
Syntax
Pragmatics
Phonetics & phonology
Orthography
Morphology
Tasks at the Chair of German Linguistics
Academic Advising (all degree programs)
Supervision of tutorials
Allocation of places via HIS-LSF (until 2025)
Member of the selection committee for teaching assistants to the USA
Topic of dissertation
Syntax by situation: a pragmatic analysis of football coverage in English and German radio.
Teaching
Every semester Parallel exercises on
Contemporary language (since WS 2007/08)
History of language (since SS 2008)
Descriptive grammar for teaching degree/bachelor (since winter semester 2009/10)
Winter semester 2021/22
Comparing grammars - productive word formation patterns
Winter semester 2019/20
Syntax & morphosyntax
Summer semester 2019
Pronunciation & spelling
Winter term 2018/19
Comparing grammars - small words
Semantics & pragmatics
Summer term 2018
Comparing grammars - word types between form and function
Morphology
Winter term 2017/18
Phonetics & spelling
Syntax & morphosyntax
Summer term 2017
Word formation
Semantics & pragmatics
Winter term 2016/17
Syntax
Summer term 2016
Comparing Grammars - Word Types between Form and Function
Winter term 2015/16
Phonetics & spelling
Summer term 2015
Syntax
Winter term 2014/15
Orthography
Summer term 2014
Comparing grammars - composition and derivation
Winter term 2013/2014
Pragmatics
Summer term 2013
Syntax
Comparing grammars - Sentence and sentential value
Winter term 2012/13
Inflectional morphology
Summer term 2012
Valence grammatical syntax
Winter term 2011/12
Phonetics & Phonology
Summer term 2011
Pragmatics
Winter term 2010/11
Valence grammatical syntax
Summer term 2010
Orthography & phonetics
Winter term 2009/10
German Orthography
Summer term 2009
Word formation morphology
Inflectional morphology
Winter term 2008/09
Syntactic analyses
German Orthography
Summer term 2008
Word formation
Word types & inflection
Winter term 2007/08
Orthography
Parts of speech & inflection
Summer term 2007
New German orthography (2x)
Word types & inflection (2x)
Winter term 2006/07
Orthography
Summer term 2006
Proseminar I: Contemporary language.
DaF/DaF-Phil
Teaching German as a foreign language
- since winter semester 2005/06, together with my colleague Christine Kramel, director of Babylon, the international theatre group at the University of Regensburg.
- Collaboration on teaching projects for the Bavarian Virtual University (vhb):
"Key competence in spelling" (2014-2015)
"Phonetics for German as a foreign language" (2014)
"German for medical professionals" (2012)
"Applied writing skills" (2011) - Course management (organisation, supervision, teaching) for North American partner universities:
Fulbright (2004-2006)
KIIS (Kentucky Institute for International Studies, 2006-2008)
MSU (Murray State University, 2005-2014)
VWW (Consortium of Vanderbilt, Wesleyan, Wheaton Universities, 2006-2015). - since 2003, language courses at all levels (A1 to C2), including:
German language film (C1/C2)
Language comparison and translation (English-German, B2-C2)
Scientific language structures (C1/C2)
German for doctoral candidates (A1/A2)
Language courses as part of the International Summer Course (A2-C2)
Listening comprehension and conversation (A2/B1)
DSH preparation courses (reading comprehension, listening comprehension, oral expression) incl. final exams
Orientation courses for exchange students.
German as a foreign language
- WS 2009/10 - SS 2015: Seminars on grammar (grammar and grammar teaching, inflection and word formation morphology, phonetics, phonology & graphemics, topology,...).
- Assessor for the final exams of the additional training programme.
Lectures
- Untranslated or untranslatable? Problems of the transfer of language and culture using examples from television and literature.
Opening lecture at the Cusanuswerk conference Lost and Found in Translation - Theory and Practice of Translation, 2 June 2011. - Word formation as a means of vocabulary building
BAYHOST Alumni Summer Academy German as a Foreign Language, 17-30 July 2011. - Orthography - system or arbitrariness?
BAYHOST Summer Academy German as a Foreign Language, 18-31 July 2010.