Beatrix Busse

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

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. 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.

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 to 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, 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.

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. Beatrix Busse was the spokesperson for the HGGS from 2012 until 2019. She was also a LERU representative for the Faculty of Modern Languages and a Marsilius Fellow at the Marsilius-Kolleg of Heidelberg University.

Busse is a member of the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) where she was a board member from 2007 to 2013, 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).

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, she was awarded a Visiting Fellowship of the British Academy at Lancaster University in 2007. 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.

Beatrix Busse (born 1973 in Haren) is Professor of English Linguistics and the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Teaching at the University of Cologne. From 2011 to 2019 she held the Chair of English Linguistics at Heidelberg University where she was appointed as Vice-Rector for Teaching and Student Affairs twice, from 2013 to 2019.

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. She is currently leading a project on discursive urban place-making in Brooklyn, New York.