Curriculum Vitae

Since Feb. 2014 – Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland

Nov. 2011-Jan. 2014 – Associate Professor in English Language and Culture (tenured) at Utrecht University (Department of Modern Languages & Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS)

2008-Oct. 2011 – Assistant Professor in English Language and Culture (tenured) at Utrecht University (Department of Modern Languages & Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS)

2005-2008/9 – Junior Lecturer in English Philology (Department of English) and Postdoctoral Research Associate in the NWO-funded VICI research project The Codifiers and the English Language: Tracing the Norms of Standard English (PI: Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade; Leiden University Centre for Linguistics), University of Leiden

2002-2005 – Ph.D. in English and German Historical Linguistics, University of Manchester (UK); Supervisors: Prof. Sylvia Adamson & Prof. Martin Durrell

2001-2002 – Teacher Training Course in English, Psychology, and Philosophy, Vienna (Austria)

1994-2000 – Mag. Phil. in English and American Studies, Psychology, Philosophy, Pedagogics (inclusive of teacher training in these subjects) at the University of Vienna (Austria)

1975 – Born in Linz/Donau (Austria)