2004-present
Professor of English, English Linguistics, Department of English, University of Cologne

2007-2011
Dean, School of Arts and Humanities (Philosophische Fakultät), University of Cologne

1999-2004
Assistant Professor of English (tenure track; abandoned to take position in Cologne), Applied Linguistics, Department of English, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Summer 1999
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff

1998
Ph.D., Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A., in English Language and Linguistics. Awarded Distinction

1997-1999
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Summer 1997
Lecturer, Department of Education, Beloit College

• First and second language acquisition: bi- and multilingualism and cognition, language immersion, age in second language acquisition, language transfer, second language writing and (multi-)literacy;
• The second language classroom and World Englishes: successful integration of diverse and inclusive classrooms, L2 immersion programs, World Englishes as second language varieties (English on Cyprus, Greek English, Jamaican English);
• Syntactic and morphological theories: morpho-syntax of English

2012-present
Chair, Cologne Center of Language Science (CCLS), University of Cologne

2010-present
Editor (1 of 2), Inquiries in language learning. Forschungen zu Psycholinguistik und Fremdsprachendidaktik. Frankfurt a. M. [u.a.]: Peter Lang.

2008-2010
Board member, Kulturbeirat Deutsche UNESCO Kommission

2008
Board member, EUROSLA

2008
Board member, Zentrum für Mehrsprachigkeit und Integration (ZMI), University of Cologne and City Council of Cologne

2007
Board member, SLATE

2005-2013
Editor (1 of 2), ZSM-Studien. Aachen: Shaker.

2005-2011
Vice chair, Zentrum für Sprachenvielfalt und Mehrsprachigkeit (ZSM), University of Cologne

Description:
Prominence is a key notion in our understanding of language as a flexible system. It plays a major role in building linguistic structures and in organizing the communicated information into coherent and continually updated discourse representations. The overall goal of the CRC Prominence in Language is to shed light on the nature of linguistic prominence.

Support:
DFG

Duration:
2017 - 2020