Prof. Dr. Burkhard Niederhoff - Biography

      Academic

• 2019-2021: Dean of the Faculty of Philology
• 2017-2019: Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philology
• 2011-12: Visiting Professor at Central Michigan University (Mt. Pleasant, MI)
• 2007- : Co-editor of Connotations
• 2001-03: Lecturer at the English Department of the University of the Saarland
• 2003- : Professor of English Literature at Bochum University
• 1999: Habilitation in English Philology at Bonn University
• 1997-98 & 2000: Humboldt fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver
• 1992: PhD at Bonn University (English, German, Comparative Literature)
• 1989-99: Research assistant and junior lecturer at Bonn University
• 1988-89: Visiting graduate student at the University of Wisconsin/Madison
• 1988: Magister at Bonn University (English, German, Comparative Literature)
• 1984-85: Visiting student at the University of Southampton
• 1983-88: Student at Bonn University

       Personal

• 1962: Born in Plettenberg
• Married to Marie Anne Niederhoff
• Father of Lioba, Pia and Jakob