Univ.-Prof. Dr. John Kirk

Professur für Englische Sprachwissenschaft an der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät

Lebenslauf:

geboren 1952 in Falkirk, Schottland
1970 Unterprimaner am Helmholtz Gymnasium, Karlsruhe, Deutschland
1970-1975 Studium an der University of Edinburgh für das schottische MA in English Language and Literature with German
1975-1978 Lektor am englischen Seminar an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Deutschland
1978-1981 Junior Research Fellow in English Language, University of Sheffield, UK
1983-2001 Lecturer in English Language, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland
1987 PhD in English Language, University of Sheffield, UK (Title: Aspects of the Grammar in a Corpus of Dramatic Texts in Scots)
1991 Visiting Adjunct Fulbright Professor, University of Georgia, USA
1992 Visiting Adjunct Professor, University of Michigan, USA
1999-2000 Studies for Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (PGCHET), Queen’s University Belfast
2000-2007 Member of the Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (MILT)
2001-2013 Senior Lecturer in English Language, Queen’s University Belfast
2007-Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
2015-2016 Senior Research Fellow and Gastprofessor in der anglistischen Sprachwissenschaft, Technische Universität Dresden
seit April 2018 Professur für Englische Sprachwissenschaft am Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik der Universität Wien

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

* Corpus building and annotation
* Corpus linguistics
* Scottish English and literary Scots
* English and Scots in Ireland, North and South
* Spoken discourse
* Morpho-syntax
* Lexicology and lexicography
* Pragmatics
* Variation and change