Curriculum Vitae
Professional career:
1978-1985
| Studies of English, German and Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland (1982-1983; scholarship awarded by the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg) |
1985 | First state examination (English and German, Gymnasiallehramt) |
1986-1988 | Teacher training programme in Bavaria (Referendariat) and second state examination (English and German, Gymnasiallehramt) |
1988-1993 | Secondary school teacher of English and German (Gymnasiallehramt) |
since 1993 | Independent subject advisor (selbstständige Fachvertreterin) and head of Didactics of English Language and Literature at the University of Bamberg |
2003 | Doctorate in the subject "Didactics of English Language and Literature" at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg Distinction: summa cum laude Lilli-Bechmann-Rahn-Preis (dissertation prize), awarded by the Faculties of Philosophy I and II and the Faculty of Education at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg |
Main areas of research and work:
- Literature in the foreign language classroom
- Language acquisition
- Errors and foreign language learning
- Teaching writing in the foreign language classroom
- Motivation and foreign language learning
- Learning strategies
Functions in administrative committees, central institutes and cross-faculty projects at the University of Bamberg
1996-2004 | Representative of the group of academic and artistic staff in the Gemeinsame Kommission für Fragen der Didaktik (Joint Commission for Issues in Education) |
2003-2007 | together with Prof. Dr. Gabriele Faust: head of the sub-project "Self-regulation of students" in the project "New conception of primary school teacher training (GLANZ)", funded by Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft |
2004-2006 | Member of the Steering Committee of the Zentrum für Wissenschaftliche Weiterbildung(Centre of Further Academic Education) |
2004-2007 | Representative of the group of academic and artistic staff in the Kommission für Lehrerbildung (Commission for Teacher Education) |
2006-2010 | Member of the Steering Committee of the Zentrum für didaktische Forschung und Lehre (Centre of Educational Research and Teaching) |
2010-2018 | Member of the Academic Management of the Bamberger Zentrum für Lehrerbildung BAZL; (Bamberg Centre of Teacher Education)) |
2016 -2019 | together with Prof. Dr. Anna Steinweg: head of the structural measure "Lifelong Learning" in the project WegE (Wegweisende Lehrerbildung) within the Quality Offensive Teacher Education, funded by the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) |
since 2019 | Member of the Advisory Board of the Zentrum für Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung Bamberg ZLB; (Centre of Teacher Education/Bamberg)) |
since 2019 | Member of the Steering Committee of the project BaTEG (Bamberg Teacher Education for a Global World), funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) |