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. |