Prof. Dr. Michael M. Szurawitzki

www.szurawitzki.defor more information

EDUCATION

2011 Habilitation, Germanic Linguistics, University of Regensburg

2005 Ph.D. , Germanic Philology, Åbo Akademi University

2002 M.A., English Philology, University of Turku, honors

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT (since 2012)

from 10/2020 Full Professor of Germanic Linguistics, Beijing Institute of Technology

2018-2020 Professor of Germanic Linguistics (acting), Universität Duisburg-Essen

2017-2018 Professor of Germanic Linguistics (acting), Universität Hamburg

2014-2017 Full Professor of Germanic Linguistics, Tongji University, Shanghai (fixed term)

2012-2014 Professor of Germanic Linguistics (acting), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS (selection)

2006 ASLA-Fulbright Research Grant for a Junior Scholar, University of California, Irvine

BOOKS (selection)

· 2020: Szurawitzki, M.: Die chinesische Messaging-App WeChat als virtuelle Sprachinsel [The Chinese Messaging App WeChat as a Virtual Speech Island]. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.

· 2016-2018: Zhu, J., Zhao, J., Szurawitzki, M. (eds.): Germanistik zwischen Tradition und Innovation. Akten des XIII. Kongresses der Internationalen Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG), Shanghai, 23.-30.8.2015. [German Studies Between Tradition and Innovation. Proceedings of the XIIIth Congress of the International Association for Germanic Studies, Shanghai, August 23-30, 2015]. Frankfurt/M. etc.: Peter Lang. 13 vols.

· 2015: Szurawitzki, M. et al. (eds.): Wissenschaftssprache Deutsch – international, interdisziplinär, interkulturell . [ Academic German – International, Interdisciplinary, Intercultural Aspects .] Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto.

· 2011: Szurawitzki, M.: Der thematische Einstieg. Eine diachrone und kontrastive Studie auf der Basis deutscher und finnischer linguistischer Zeitschriftenartikel . [The Thematic Opening. A Diachronic and Contrastive Study on the Basis of German and Finnish Linguistic Journal Articles.] Frankfurt/M. etc.: Peter Lang. 395 pp. [revised Habilitation thesis]

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

A total of ca. 25 edited books, ca. 40 mostly refereed journal articles (18 times A&HCI), ca. 30 contributions to edited academic volumes, ca. 25 academic book reviews

GRANTS

Numerous grants by e.g. the Goethe-Institut, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Applied Linguistics, Academic Discourse, Languages for Special Purposes, Media Linguistics, Text Linguistics, Discourse Linguistics, Contrastive Linguistics, Intercultural Linguistics, Pragmatics, Lexical Semantics, Corpus Linguistics, Morphology, Foreign Language Education, Organizational Communication, Messenger Communication, Intercultural Communication

TEACHING

Ca. 110 full-length university courses on all aspects of Germanic Linguistics from theoretical to applied linguistics, on all levels from beginner to advanced