Biography
Education and Academic Posts Held
- 1970-1976
- Studies in English, German, philosophy and pedagogy at the University of Trier
- 1974-1975
- Assistant Teacher in Stockport, Great Britain
- 1979-1993
- Teacher for English and German at German high schools (Gymnasium) in Koblenz and Daun, Rhineland-Palatinate
- 1993-1997
- Teacher trainer for English as a foreign language (secondary and advanced level) at the state teacher training seminar in Trier
- 1997-2004
- Head of Auguste-Viktoria-Gymnasium Trier (state school with a bilingual branch, School for the Highly Gifted/International School, member of the UNESCO Associated Schools Project Network)
- 2002
- PhD in pedagogical studies (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)
- Since 2004
- Professor for Teaching English as a Foreign Language (literature and cultural studies) at the University of Giessen
- Since 2004
- Member of the editorial board of Der fremdsprachliche Unterricht English (Bi-monthly journal for Teaching as a Foreign Language)
- 2005-2007
- Member of the Advisory Board of the German Association for Foreign Language Research/Deutsche Gesellschaft für Fremdsprachenforschung (DGFF)
- Since 2005
- Member of the Board of Directors of the Giessener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften (GGK) and the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), University of Giessen
- Since 2006
- Member of the Executive Board of the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture and Head of the Teaching Centre, University of Giessen
- July/August 2007
- Research Fellow at St. Mary's University Halifax, Canada
- 2007 - 2009
- Director of the English Department