Professor Christiane M. Bongartz
I am an advocate of 'compassionate linguistics': for me, this involves efforts to move away from linguistics as a means to categorize (standard vs. non-standard, grammatical vs. non-grammatical, monolingual vs. bilingual) towards making use of linguistics to support a heterogeneous and inclusive society. In our research and teaching, my team members and I investigate multilingualism with respect to language development, literacy/ies, and socio-economic conditioning. Language use by soccer fans, reading development, learner biographies in Cologne schools or the high Atlas Mountains - our wide range of linguistic interests is motivated by calling into question traditional epistemes about descriptivism and separateness of languages in the individual mind.
Email: chris.bongartz@uni-koeln.de
Curriculum Vitae
| 2004 until present | Professor of English Linguistics |
| 2021 until present | a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne: Coordinator and mentor for graduate class 2 " Language, Discourse and Culture" (integrated track) with Prof. Dr. Nicolas Pethes |
| 2011 - 2017 | Director of the Language Laboratory of the School of Arts and Humanities |
| 2015 - 2017 | Member of the University Senate |
| 2012 - 2015 | Director of Cologne Center of Language Sciences (CCLS) |
| 2007 - 2011 | Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities |
| 1999 - 2004 | Assistant Professor of English (tenure track), University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| 1998 | Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), English Language and Linguistics, University of Wisconsin - Madison (awarded distinction) |