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
2022-2023: Universität Bayreuth - Acting Chair of English Linguistics
since April 2022: Universität Regensburg - Akademischer Rat a.Z. (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 a.Z. (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
English World-Wide
John Benjamins
Journal of English Linguistics
Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages
Legon Journal of the Humanities
Peter Lang
Oxford University Press
Springer
Studia Linguistica
World Englishes
Dr. Thorsten Brato
Room PT 3.2.80
Phone+49(0)941-943-3504
Fax+49(0)941-943-1990
thorsten.brato@ur.de