Educational and Professional Experience

1981 M.A. (American and English Studies, Slavistic studies) Ruhr-University Bochum

1987 Ph.D. (American and English Literary Studies) Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität  Frankfurt a. M

1995 First State Exam (English, German)

1997-1999 Member of the Graduate School (Graduiertenkolleg) „Didaktik des Fremdverstehens“ at Justus Liebig-University Gießen

1997 Second State Exam (English, German)

2001 Visiting professor (Lehrstuhlvertretung) for TEFL at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena

2002 Habilitation (post-doctoral degree) at the Faculty of Language, Literature and Culture at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen

2002 Junior professorship (Hochschuldozentur) for the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) at Justus-Liebig-University Gießen

2004 Chair of Teaching English as a Foreign Language at University Leipzig offered (declined)

2004 Professor for Teaching English as a Foreign Language at Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen