Experience and qualifications
Positions held
September 2022-today
Full Professor, Université de Lorraine, Campus Lettres et Sciences Humaines (Nancy), UFR Arts, Lettres et Langues
Research Unit: Analyse et traitement informatique de la langue française [UMR 7118 CNRS & UL]
2008-2022
Lecturer of German Linguistic at the Sorbonne University, Department of Scandinavian and German Studies (Paris)
Research Unit: Centre de Linguistique en Sorbonne (CeLiSo, UR 7332)
2005-2008
2002-2005
1999-2002
French lector in the Department of Roman Studies at the University of Cologne (Universität zu Köln, Romanisches Seminar, Köln)
Qualifications
2016
French post-doctoral degree to supervise PhD students, Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). Habilitation à diriger des recherches [diploma required to surpervise PhD students] ‘Linearisation and Reference in Contemporary German: textual and argumentative studies’.
Research topics:Reference Chains, Salience, Accessibility, Text organisation, Argumentation, press commentaries
2009-2010
Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
Research project at the Humboldt University of Berlin, Department of German Languages and Linguistics ( Syntax)
2004
PhD. Université Paris 4-Sorbonne.
Obtained with highest Honours
Title: “Réalisations ‘originales’ de l’après-dernière position en allemand contemporain – Projection à droite & Adjonction” [‘Postfield Constituents as a Result of Right Projection or Addition in Contemporary German’].
Research topics: Syntax, Right Periphery, Information Structure, Discourse coherence, Argumentation, Political Speeches
2000
Second year of the Master’s degree – DEA
Specialisation in linguistics. Master thesis ‘Aukslammerung & Nachtrag’.
1999
1993-1998
German studies at the Paul-Verlaine University in Metz (Université Paul Verlaine, Metz)