Short Bio

1995-present
Associate Professor (tenured), Dept. of Communication Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

1999-present
Associate Professor, Dept. of Germanic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin

Faculty member, Foreign Language Education, UT Austin

Faculty member, African and African-American Studies Program, UT Austin

Feb - July 2000
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Arts, Communication and Information Science, University of Utrecht, Netherlands

Fall 1999
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria

1998
Faculty, International Graduate School in Language and Communication, University of Odense, Denmark

1998, 1994, 1993, 1983
Visiting Scholar, Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany

1989-1995
Assistant Professor, Language and Culture, Department of Speech Communication, The University of Texas at Austin

1983-1989
Hochschulassistent (Assistant Professor, non-tenurable), Linguistics, Fachbereich Germanistik, Freie Universität Berlin

1979-1983
wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Lecturer, Sociolinguistics), Fachbereich Germanistik, Freie Universität Berlin

1977-1978
Research Assistant, Teacher Education Program, University of California, San Diego

1974-1976
Tutor (Assistant Instructor), Philosophy and Linguistics, Freie Universität Berlin

1981
Dr. phil (Ph.D.), Linguistics, Freie Universität Berlin (‘summa cum laude’)

1976
M.A., Linguistics, Freie Universität Berlin (‘summa cum laude’)

1976-1978
Graduate Student in Sociology (course-work in Linguistics and Anthropology), University of California, San Diego

1972-1976
Student at the Freie Universität Berlin (Linguistics, Sociology, Philosophy)

1970-1972
Student at the Universität Hamburg (Linguistics, Sociology, Philosophy)