Curriculum Vitae DR. UTE RÖMER January 2016 Department of Applied Linguistics and ESL Phone (office): 404 413 5592 Georgia State University Email:
[email protected] 25 Park Place NE, Suite 1500 Website: www.uteroemer.com Atlanta, GA 30303 EDUCATION 2004 Ph.D. in English Linguistics, University of Hanover, Germany (summa cum laude) 2000 M.A. in English Language and Literature (major), Education (minor), and Chemistry (minor), University of Cologne, Germany 1999 Staatsexamen (graduate degree; State Examination, to qualify as a secondary school teacher) in English Language and Literature (major), Chemistry (major), and Education (minor), University of Cologne, Germany ACADEMIC POSITIONS Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, Department of Applied Linguistics & ESL Assistant Professor (2011 – present) University of Reading, Reading, UK, Centre for Literacy and Multilingualism Associate member (2015 – present) University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Corpus Linguistics Lab Affiliate faculty member (2012 – present) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, English Language Institute Director of the Applied Corpus Linguistics Unit (Research Area Specialist) (2007 – 2011) Leibniz University of Hanover, Hanover, Germany, English Department Assistant Professor of English Linguistics (2005 – 2007) Researcher and lecturer in English Linguistics (2003 – 2004) University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany, English Department Research assistant and corpus consultant (2002 – 2003) Graduate student teaching assistant (1996 – 1998) GRANTS AND AWARDS 2016 Spaan Research Grant awarded by Cambridge Michigan Language Assessments (CaMLA) for work on a project entitled “Validating the MET speaking test through phraseological analysis: A corpus approach to language assessment” (with Jayanti Banerjee); $6,000 CURRICULUM VITAE – DR UTE RÖMER 2 2014 Scholarly Support Grant awarded by Georgia State University to support the completion of a book entitled “Language Usage, Acquisition, and Processing: Cognitive and Corpus Investigations of Construction Grammar”; $22,712 2012 C.