skip to content

Personal Data

Title Univ.-Prof.
Name Christiane Maria Bongartz
Current position University Professor
Current institution(s)/site(s), country University of Cologne, Department of English I, Germany

 

Qualifications and Career

Stages Periods and Details
Degree programme  1993: State Board Exam in English Linguistics and Literature and French Linguistics and Literature with a minor in Education and Philosophy, University of Cologne, Germany.
Doctorate  1994-1998: English Language and Linguistics with a minor in Germanic Languages at UW Madison, USA
Advisor: Charles Scott, English Studies; committee members Richard Young, Jane Zuengler, Cecilia Ford
Stages of academic/ professional career 

2004-present:  Professor of English, English Linguistics, Department of English, University of Cologne

2015-2017: Member of the University Senate

2007-2011: Dean, School of Arts and Humanities (Philosophische Fakultät), University of Cologne

1999-2004: Assistant Professor of English (tenure track; abandoned to take position in Cologne), Applied Linguistics, Department of English, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Summer 1999: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff

1997-1999: Lecturer, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Summer 1997: Lecturer, Department of Education, Beloit College

 

Activities in the Research System

2023-present: Director of the Language Laboratory of the School of Arts and Humanities

2021-present: Coordinator and mentor, a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne: graduate class 2 " Language, Discourse and Culture" (integrated track) with Prof. Dr. Nicolas Pethes

2017-present: Principle Investigator and member, Project C03 “Reference Strategies in Bilingual Narratives” within the SFB 1252 “Prominence in Language”, University of Cologne

2015-present: Principal Investigator and member, Global South Studies Centre (GSSC), University of Cologne

2013-2015: Chair, Cologne Centre of Language Science (CCLS), University of Cologne

2011-2017: Director of the Language Laboratory of the School of Arts and Humanities

2010-present: Editor (1 of 2), Inquiries in language learning. Forschungen zu Psycholinguistik und Fremdsprachendidaktik. Frankfurt a. M. [u.a.]: Peter Lang.

2008-2010: Board member, Kulturbeirat Deutsche UNESCO Kommission

2008: Board member, EUROSLA

2008: Board member, Zentrum für Mehrsprachigkeit und Integration (ZMI), University of Cologne and City Council of Cologne

2007: Board member, SLATE

2005-2013: Editor (1 of 2), ZSM-Studien. Aachen: Shaker.

2005-2011: Vice chair, Zentrum für Sprachenvielfalt und Mehrsprachigkeit (ZSM), University of Cologne

 

Functions outside the institution

2010-present: Editor (1 of 2), Inquiries in language learning. Forschungen zu Psycholinguistik und Fremdsprachendidaktik. Frankfurt a. M. [u.a.]: Peter Lang.

2008-2010: Board member, Kulturbeirat Deutsche UNESCO Kommission

2008: Board member, EUROSLA

2008: Board member, Zentrum für Mehrsprachigkeit und Integration (ZMI), University of Cologne and City Council of Cologne

2007: Board member, SLATE

2005-2013: Editor (1 of 2), ZSM-Studien. Aachen: Shaker.

 

Supervision of Researchers in Early Career Phases

Heimes, Alexander (2010), Psycholinguistic thought meets cultural theory. Die integrativen Zusammenhänge zwischen Fachmethodik und Fremsprachenlernen im bilingualen (Geschichts) Unterricht. Cologne.

Buschfeld, Sarah (2011), The English language in Cyprus: An empirical investigation of variety status. Cologne.

Schöneberger, Christiane (2015), Grammar growth in child L2 German. Investigating DP Development in an Immersion Setting. Cologne.

Kolb, Nadine (2016), The syntax-semantics interface: definiteness and genericitiy in Child L2 acquisition. Cologne.

Springob, Jan (2016), Praktische Anwendung und empirische Analyse von gemeinsamem Lernen im inklusiven Englischunterricht am Gymnasium - eine longitudinale Fallstudie. Cologne.

Knopp, Eva (2017), From bilingual to biliterate: Narrative discourse competence in Greek-German and Greek-English bilinguals from Germany and the US. Cologne.

Vida-Mannl, Manuela (2019), The value of English in Cyprus' higher education. Cologne.

Nannou, Natalia (2020-), Pronominal resolution and referential production in Greek-German bilingual children: A multi-modal experimental approach. Cologne.

Skrimpa, Vasileia (2020-), The interplay of language and Theory of Mind in bilingual reference perception and production: Evidence from TD children and children with ASD. Cologne.