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Employment

2013-2017 Dean, Faculty of Arts, University of Zurich
2008-2013 Vice-dean Resources, Faculty of Arts, University of Zurich
2004-2009 Chair of the Department of English, University of Zurich
2002-Present Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Zurich

2001-2002 Vice-Dean of the College of Language, Literature, Culture; Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
1999-2001 Founding Dean of the College of Language, Literature, Culture; Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
1996-1998 Dean of the Department of English, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
1994-2002 Professor (C4), Department of English, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
1992-1994 Professor (C3), Department of English, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany

1990-1992 Lecturer, Department of English, University of Zurich; and Department of English, University of St. Gallen
1989/90 Guestprofessor, Department of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
1987-1989 Researcher, Department of Linguistics, University of Cambridge (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation)
1983-1987 Research assistant, Department of English, University of Zurich