born in Essen in 1978
Habilitation: Universität Regensburg - English Linguistics
Thesis: "Structural nativization in Ghanaian English" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Edgar Schneider)
2012: PhD: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen – English Linguistics
Thesis: "A sociophonetic study of Aberdeen English: innovation and conservatism" (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Magnus Huber)
2005: 1. Staatsprüfung für die Lehrämter für die Sekundarstufe II und für die Sekundarstufe I: Universität Duisburg-Essen – English, English, Pedagogy, Education
1998: Abitur - Gymnasium Borbeck, Essen
since 2023: Universität Regensburg - Akademischer Rat (Lecturer)
2022-2023: Universität Bayreuth - Acting Chair of English Linguistics
2022: Universität Regensburg - Akademischer Rat (Lecturer)
2020-2022: Universität Regensburg - Acting Chair of English Linguistics
2019: Universität Bayreuth - Offered Acting Chair of English Linguistics (declined)
2015-2020: Universität Regensburg - Akademischer Rat (Lecturer)
2014-2015: Westfälische-Wilhelms-Universität Münster - Acting Chair of English Linguistics
2012-2015: Technische Universität Chemnitz - Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Lecturer)
2005-2011: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen - Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Research assistant)
since 2020: Namibian English (with Anne Schröder)
since 2018: Phonetics and phonology of Botswanan English
since 2018: The English of Children and Adolescents in Cameroon: Sociolinguistic and acquisitional perspectives (with Samuel Atechi and Giuliana Regnoli)
since 2013: A real-time study of structural nativization in Ghanaian English
since2011: An acoustic-phonetic description of Ghanaian English
2010-2012: Areal features of African Englishes (with Magnus Huber)
2006-2012: A sociophonetic study of Aberdeen English
2004: Phonological variation in Glaswegian adolescents
Dr. Thorsten Brato
Room PT 3.2.80
Phone+49(0)941-943-3504
Fax+49(0)941-943-1990
thorsten.brato@ur.de
Office hour: Mondays, 10.30-11.30