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Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Englische Sprachwissenschaft

Prof. Dr. Susanne Mühleisen has been Chair of English Linguistics at Bayreuth University since October 2006. She has been a Principal Investigator at the Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS) since 2007 and is also a founding PI at the Cluster of Excellence “Africa Multiple” which was granted to Bayreuth University in 2018.

Prof. Dr. Susanne Mühleisen is currently Vice Dean Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies and Vice Dean Early Career and Equal Opportunity at the Cluster of Excellence.

Prof. Dr. Mühleisen’s research interest in Caribbean Creoles and contact linguistics dates back to her PhD work (Creole Discourse: Exploring Prestige Formation and Change across Caribbean English-Lexicon Creoles, Benjamins 2002) and has since also included literary and pragmatic perspectives to African and African diaspora studies (Ed. Creole Languages in Creole Literatures. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages (Special Issue) 20 (1) 2005; Ed. with Bettina Migge, Politeness and Face in Caribbean Creoles, Benjamins 2006). Other topics in her research include word formation (Heterogeneity in Word-formation Patterns: a Corpus-based Analysis of Suffixation with -ee and its Productivity in English, Benjamins 2009), translation studies, linguistic anthropology as well as genre studies and text linguistics (Ed. with Daria Dayter, Personal Narrative Online. Open Linguistics,de Gruyter 2016; Genre in World Englishes: Case Studies from the Caribbean, Benjamins 2022). A special research focus is on language and food studies (Ed. with Sofia Rüdiger, Talking about Food: the Social and the Global in Eating Communities, Benjamins 2020, Ed. with Dr.Sofia Rüdiger, Formality and Informality in Online Performances. Internet Pragmatics, Benjamins 2022) as well as pragmatics and practical epistemology in African contexts (Ed. Advice in African Multilingual Contexts, forthcoming).

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Academic Career

2007Habilitation (Post-doctoral degree): "Of Lessees, Retirees and Beseechees: A Historical, Empirical and Sociolinguistic Analysis of a Word-formation and Its Productivity in English", University of Regensburg
2001Doctoral degree ("summa cum laude"): "Creole Discourse: Exploring Prestige Formation and Change across Caribbean English-lexicon Creoles", Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
1993MA degree (English Language and Literature): "Attitudes towards Language Varieties in Trinidad", FU Berlin
1991-1992Study year abroad, at the Univer­sity of the West Indies (UWI), Trinidad
1987-1993BA and MA studies at FU Berlin. Subjects: English studies (major), political science and media studies (minors)

Academic Positions Held

Since 10/2006Professor of English Linguistics (Full Professor, Chair), University of Bayreuth
04/2006 – 07/2006Substitute Professor of English Linguistics and the History of the English Language at the University of Duisburg-Essen
10/1997 – 04/2005Lecturer at the Institute of English and American Studies (IEAS) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main
04/1994 – 09/1997Lecturer at the English Department of the University of Hannover

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