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Beatrix Busse (born 1973 in Haren) is a German linguist and the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Teaching at the University of Cologne.[1] From 2011-2019 she held the Chair of Linguistics at Heidelberg University where she was appointed as Vice-Rector for Teaching and Student Affairs twice, from 2013-2019.[2]

Education and Qualifications

Busse studied English and History at Osnabrück University and University of Keele and received her first degree (“Erstes Staatsexamen”). She was a CARE Visitor at the University of Birmingham, Centre for Advanced Research in English and Shakespeare Institute Stratford for which she was awarded a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 2001. After completing her doctorate at the University of Münster in 2004[3], she was awarded a Visiting Fellowship of the British Academy at Lancaster University in 2007.[4]

Academic Career

Busse was a research assistant (“wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin”) at the English Department of the University of Münster for seven years, and also taught courses on English (diachronic) linguistics at the universities of Osnabrück, Mainz and Hanover in Germany. From 2008 to 2010 she was an associate professor of English historical linguistics at the English department of the University of Bern in Switzerland, where she completed her Habilitation.

In 2011, she became a professor of English Linguistics at the Heidelberg University Department of English and was the managing director of the department for a year. She was also a member of the governing body and part of the steering committee of the Heidelberg Graduate School for Humanities and Social Sciences (HGGS) and a member of the Degree Program Commission for the Faculty of Modern Languages at Heidelberg University. She was also a LERU representative for the Faculty of Modern Languages and a Marsilius Fellow at the Marsilius-Kolleg of Heidelberg University.[5]

Since 2017, Busse has been a member for the DFG Research Training Group “Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History and Politics” (GRK 2244) at the Heidelberg Centre for American Studies.[6] She was the spokesperson of the Research Training Group “Sprachkritik als Gesellschaftskritik im europäischen Vergleich / Critique of Language as Critique of Society – A European Perspective”. Busse is also the founding director of the Heidelberg School of Education and was the project manager of the heiEDUCATION, PLACE, and GO Digital endeavours[7].

In October 2019, Busse was appointed Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Teaching at the University of Cologne[8].

Research Projects

Busse has a broad range of research interests that include stylistics, corpus linguistics, history of English and historical pragmatics, sociolinguistics, language in urban space with a focus on Brooklyn, New York, and transfer linguistics. Her DFG funded project heidelGram is a corpus-based network analysis of English grammar books between 1550 and 1900.[9] [10] She is currently leading a project on discursive urban place-making in Brooklyn, New York.

Busse is part of the steering committee and the person responsible on behalf of the University of Cologne for EUniWell –the European University for Well-Being[11], which unites seven European universities from across diverse European regions. The universities of Birmingham, Cologne, Florence, Leiden, Linnaeus, Nantes, and Semmelweis (Budapest) unite students and staff members to drive transformation to support individual, social and environmental well-being in a global setting[12].

Memberships

Busse is the reviews editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics[13] as well as the series editor for the Diskursmuster – Discourse Patterns volume published by Mouton De Gruyter.[14] She is on the editorial board for Advances in Stylistics (Continuum) and Language, Style and Literature (Palgrave) and the advisory board for the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. She is an editor for the heiEDUCATION Journal – Transdisziplinäre Studien zur Lehrerbildung.[15]

Busse was on the board of directors of the Leibniz Science Campus Empirical Linguistics and Computational Language Modelling at Heidelberg University and the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim from 2015-2019, and on the evaluation board for the Swiss National Science Foundation: National Research Focuses and Centres of Excellency in 2018. She is an honorary research fellow at the University of Glasgow[16], and deputy director of the Heidelberg Centre for Cultural Heritage. She is a board member of the Deutsches Kolonialkorpus as well as the coordinator of the Urban Space Research Network (USRN) at the University of Bremen.

Busse is a member of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) where she was a board member from 2007-2013[17], the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE), the Deutscher Anglistenverband, and the International Association of Literary Semantics (IALS).

Publications (Selected)

  • Busse, Beatrix. Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction: A Corpus-Assisted Approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  • Busse, Beatrix, Jennifer Smith and Ingo Warnke (eds.). Place-Making in the Declarative City. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
  • Busse, Beatrix. “Patterns of Discursive Urban Place-Making in Brooklyn, New York.” Corpus Linguistics, Context and Culture. Ed. by Viola Wiegand and Michaela Mahlberg. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019. 13-42.
  • Busse, Beatrix and Ruth Möhlig-Falke (eds.). Patterns in Language and Linguistics. New Perspectives on a Ubiquitous Concept. (Topics in English Linguistics). Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019.
  • Busse, Beatrix. “Current British English: Sociolinguistic Perspective.” Corpus Approaches to Contemporary British Speech: Sociolinguistic Studies of the Spoken BNC2014. Ed. by Vaclav Brezina, Katrin Aijmer and Robbie Love. London: Routledge, 2018. 16-26.
  • Busse, Beatrix, Ruth Page and Nina Nørgaard (eds.). Rethinking Language, Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Research in Stylistics in Honour of Michael Toolan. New York: Routledge, 2018.
  • Busse, Beatrix. 2017. “Pragmatics of Style in Fiction.” Handbook of Pragmatics. Vol. 12: Pragmatics of Fiction. Ed. by Miriam A. Locher and Andreas H. Jucker. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017. 197–232.
  • Busse, Beatrix and Ingo H. Warnke. “Sprache im urbanen Raum – Konzeption und Forschungsfelder der Urban Linguistics.” Handbücher Sprachwissen. Vol. 1: Handbuch Sprache und Wissen. Ed. by Ekkehard Felder and Andreas Gardt. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2015. 519-538.
  • Busse, Beatrix. “New Historical Stylistics.” The Routledge Handbook of Stylistics. Ed. by Michael Burke. London, New York: Routledge, 2014.
  • Busse, Beatrix and Ingo H. Warnke. “Ortsherstellung als sprachliche Praxis – sprachliche Praxis als Ortsherstellung.” Place-Making in urbanen Diskursen. Ed. by Beatrix Busse and Ingo H. Warnke. Berlin & Boston: Mouton de Gruyter, 2014. 1-7.
  • Busse, Beatrix and Ingo Warnke (eds.). Place-Making in urbanen Diskursen. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014.
  • Busse, Beatrix and Dan McIntyre (eds.). Key Texts in Stylistics. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.
  • Busse, Beatrix. “Genre.” The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics. Ed. by Peter Stockwell and Sarah Whiteley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 103-116.
  • Busse, Beatrix, Nina Nørgaard and Roçio Montoro. Key Terms in Stylistics. London: Continuum, 2010.
  • Busse, Beatrix and Dan McIntyre (eds.). Language and Style. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
  • Busse, Beatrix. Vocative Constructions in the Language of Shakespeare. Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 150. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006.

References

  1. ^ "Prorektorin Lehre und Studium". portal.uni-koeln.de. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  2. ^ "Beatrix Busse CV" (PDF).{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  3. ^ Busse, Beatrix. (2006). Vocative constructions in the language of Shakespeare. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Pub. Co. ISBN 978-90-272-9313-8. OCLC 233697492.
  4. ^ "Anglistisches Seminar der Universität Heidelberg". www.as.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  5. ^ "Anglistisches Seminar der Universität Heidelberg". www.as.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  6. ^ "DFG - GEPRIS - Professorin Dr. Beatrix Busse". gepris.dfg.de. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  7. ^ "heiEDUCATION | Heidelberg School of Education". hse-heidelberg.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  8. ^ "Beatrix Busse ist neue Prorektorin für Lehre und Studium der Universität zu Köln". portal.uni-koeln.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  9. ^ "DFG - GEPRIS - HeidelGram - Korpus- und Netzwerkanalyse der Diskurse von englischen Grammatiken von 1550 bis 1900". gepris.dfg.de. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  10. ^ "team [HeidelGram]". heidelgram.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  11. ^ "EUniWell selected as a 'European University'". University of Birmingham. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  12. ^ EUniWell. "EUniWell: University of Cologne". EUniWell. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  13. ^ Mahlberg, Edited by Michaela. "International Journal of Corpus Linguistics". IJCL. Retrieved 2020-11-10. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  14. ^ "Diskursmuster / Discourse Patterns". De Gruyter. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  15. ^ "Redaktion | heiEDUCATION Journal. Transdisziplinäre Studien zur Lehrerbildung". heiup.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  16. ^ "University of Glasgow School of Critical Studies".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  17. ^ "PALA". PALA. Retrieved 2020-11-10.


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