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Curriculum Vitae

  • Since 2011 Professor of Linguistics/Language Didactics at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Bielefeld University
  • 2010 DFG research project On the production of affectivity in live radio reports (own position)
  • 2009-2011 Temporary professorships in Potsdam and Hildesheim
  • 2009 post-doctoral habilitation; Venia legendi "German Linguistics"
  • 10/2008-9/2009 Visiting professor at the FU Berlin
  • 2003-2008 Research Assistant at the Department of German Studies at the University of Potsdam, Chair of Communication Theory; collaboration in the DFG projects "Türkendeutsch aus interaktional-linguistischer Perspektive" and "Die Prosodie des Türkendeutschen" at the University of Potsdam (Head: Prof. Dr Margret Selting)
  • 2000-2003 WM in the DFG research project Discourse styles as linguistic socialisation at the University of Dortmund
  • 1999-2000 Assessment trainer and teacher for German as a second language (GFBM e.v.).
  • 1999 Doctorate/Phd studies at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Hamburg
  • 1986-1994 Studied German and Philosophy with additional studies in German as a Foreign Language at the FU Berlin and University College London (UCL)

Visiting researcher

  • 2016 CLIC (Center for Interaction, Language and Culture) at UCLA, USA (winter term)
  • 2007 University of York, Department of Languages and Linguistic Sciences, UK (spring term)

Reviewer activities
Peer-reviewed Journals: Classroom Discourse; Frontiers in Psychology; Research on Language and Social Interaction (ROLSI); Interaction Studies; Zeitschrift für Qualitative Forschung; Learning, Culture and Social Interaction; Research on Children and Social Interaction (ROCSI); Herausforderung Lehrer_innenbildung (HLZ)

Research organisations: German Research Foundation (DFG), The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Leibniz Society; Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

Current research topics

  • Language and learning in multimodal interactions in school and everyday life
  • Language and communication in autism spectrum breakdowns
  • Gesture research
  • Language and discourse acquisition
  • Didactic professionalisation
  • Conversation analysis, ethongraphy and multimodal interaction analysis

Memberships and Functions

International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA)
German Society for Linguistics

Editorial board member of the journal Didaktik Deutsch (currently in charge)