2014 Habilitation (Title: 'Situated Meaning in Syntactic Form: Syntactic Variation in Professional Discourse')
2001-2004 Project 'Narrativity and evolution of English genres', funded by Lise-Meitner-Programm des Ministeriums für Wissenschaft und Forschung
1995 Preis 'Beste Dissertation des Jahres 1995', HHU Düsseldorf
Jul./Aug. 1993 Visiting scholar Ohio State University in Columbus, OH, funded by DAAD
1991-1994 Ph.D. English Linguistics from University of Düsseldorf (title of dissertation: 'Word Order in Discourse. Form and Function of Inversion in Modern English'); funded by Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
1985-86 London School of Economics
1983-84 Université de Paris II (Sciences Economiques)
1982-88 Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen (Anglistik, Romanistik, Betriebswirtschaftslehre); funded by Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Work experience
2012 Interim professorship (Lehrstuhlvertretung) for 'English Language and Linguistics' at HHU Düsseldorf
since 2009 Full-time lecturer in 'English Language and Linguistics' at University of Düsseldorf
2008/09 Lecturer at University of Paderborn
1997-1998 and 2004-2006 Maternity leave / part-time lecturer (two children)
since 1991 Full-time lecturer in 'English Language and Linguistics' at University of Düsseldorf
1989-1991 Daimler-Benz AG, Stuttgart (Department of Public Relations)
