School of Humanities

 

Curriculum Vitae

Prof. Dr. Monika Rathert, Full professor (W2), *12.07.1972

 

Education:

  • 2004 PhD in Linguistics in Tübingen (summa cum laude). Title of dissertation: Textures of Time. The Interplay of the Perfect, Durative Adverbs, and Extended-Now-Adverbs in German and English.
  • 1999 M.A. in English and General Linguistics in Tübingen (1,0; mit Auszeichnung / with disctinction)
  • 1992-1999 Undergraduate Studies in Tübingen (German, English, General linguistics, Rhetoric, Biochemics) and Homburg (Human Medicine)
  • 1992 Abitur / A-levels / (1,0)

Academic positions:

  • As of 2009: University professor (W2) at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal (German Linguistics)
  • 2007-2009: Assistant Professor at the Institute of Linguistics, Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
  • 2004-2006: Assistant Professor for German Linguistics, Universität des Saarlandes
  • 1999-2004: Research Assistant at the Colloborative Research Centre 441 "Linguistic Data Structures", Universität Tübingen

Visiting academic positions:

  • 2010: Visiting professor at the Università degli studi di Verona
  • 2008/9: Visiting professor at the University Vienna
  • 2007: Visiting lecturer at the Ben-Gurion-University of the Negev
  • 2007: Visiting lecturer at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) in Dublin (Trinity College)
  • 2003: Visiting lecturer at the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) in Vienna (Technische Universität Wien)

Academic functions:

  • As of 2014: Editorial board member of the International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law (Equinox)
  • As of 2013: Official cooperation partner of the Tübingen Graduate School 1808 Ambiguity - production and reception
  • As of 2012: Appointed member of the DAAD-Fachgutachterausschuss für Langzeit- u. Kurzzeitdozenturen
  • As of 2010: Director of the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Sprachforschung (ZefiS) at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal, founder of the ZefiS in 2010
  • 2009: Founder of the award Der Bergische Grimm (award for the best student thesis in German Philology in Wuppertal), member of the commission (2009-12)
  • As of 2009: Faculty member of the Osnabrück Summer School on Law, Language and Culture
  • As of 2008: Editorial Board member of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law (Springer)
  • 2008: Program committee member of the 31st annual DGfS-conference in Osnabrück
  • 2007/8: Replacement Professor (W3) for English Linguistics at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
  • 2007: Prize committee member of the Cognitive Science Society for the best student contribution at ESSLLI
  • As of 2005: Program committee member of many international conferences: LSA, WECOL, International Congress of Linguists, Sinn und Bedeutung etc.
  • 2004: Postdoc at the Graduate School "Sentence Types", Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.
  • As of 2003: Comissioner at the selecting commitees of Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes

Awards and Scholarships:

Reviewing:

for scientific journals:

  • Journal of Linguistics
  • Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik (ZDL),
  • Journal of Semantics,
  • Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (NLLT),
  • Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics,
  • Linguistische Berichte (LB),
  • International Journal for the Semiotics of Law,
  • Linguistik Online

for publishing houses:

  • Oxford University Press,
  • Mouton de Gruyter,
  • Akademieverlag

for research funding institutions:

  • DFG
  • ANR (French National Research Agency, L'Agence Nationale de la Recherche)
  • Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF),
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
  • Research Council K.U. Leuven
  • DAAD (Fachgutachterausschuss für Langzeit- u. Kurzzeitdozenturen and Sommerschulen in Deutschland/ im Ausland)
  • Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
  • Cognitive Science Society