Prof. Dr. Anne Storch
Institute for African Studies and Egyptology
Meister-Ekkehart-Str. 7, 50937 Cologne
E-mail: astorch(at)uni-koeln.de
Phone: +49 221 470 2708
Web: https://afrikanistik.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/storch.html?&L=1
Short Biography
2004 - present
Full Professor (C4), African Linguistics, Head of Department, Institute of African Studies, University of Cologne
2000 - 2004
Assistant professor, Institute for African Linguistics, University of Frankfurt
1999
PhD, University of Frankfurt
1995 -1999
Research fellow at the German Research Society interdisciplinary joint research project 268 ‘Kulturentwicklung und Sprachgeschichte im Naturraum Westafrikanische Savanne’, Goethe University Frankfurt
Research Interests
- African languages; Benue-Congo, Nilotic and the Atlantic area
- Typology
- Cultural and Social Histories of Languages
- Semiotics of Linguistic Practice
- Analysis, Description and Documentation of Registers and Choices
- Epistemic Language
- Local Metalinguistic Knowledge
- Variation and Vagueness in Language
- Colonial Linguistics
- Critical Heritage Studies
Academic Memberships
2009 - present
Board Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture
2006 - 2009
President of the Academic Association of African Linguists in Germany (‘Fachverband Afrikanistik’)
Research Projects
Language and Contingency
Duration: since 2022
Funding: DFG (Leibniz-Preis)
Opaque messages
Duration: since 2021
Funding: DFG Leibniz Preis
AfroGastro
Kritische Afrikanistik
Duration: since 2017