Daniela Wawra
Daniela Wawra (* 1973 in Memmingen ) is a German linguist and professor at the University of Passau .
Life
After graduating from the Marist College in Mindelheim in 1992, Wawra studied English , economics and Romance studies at the University of Passau , Eastern Illinois University and the University of California, Santa Barbara . In 1997 she acquired a master's degree in English linguistics, English technical didactics and economics, and a year later she passed the first state examination for teaching English and economics at grammar schools. From 1997 to 1999 and from 2000 to 2008 Wawra was a research assistant at Rudolf Emons' chair in Passau. There she did her PhD. After a stay as a visiting scholar at the University of Sunderland in November 2006, she completed her habilitation in 2007 in Passau in English linguistics and intercultural communication.
In the summer semester of 2008, Wawra held a chair at the University of Frankfurt am Main . From 2009 to 2010 she held the chair for Applied English Linguistics at the University of Graz . Since October 2010 she has held the former chair of her doctoral supervisor, the chair for English language and culture at the University of Passau. From February to March 2012, Wawra was a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs , the University of New Mexico , Northern Arizona University , the University of Arizona and Brigham Young University . From 2013 to 2015 Wawra was Dean of the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Passau. Since April 2010 she has also been Vice President of the German University Association .
Publications (selection)
- Men and Women in the Job Interview - An evolutionary psychological study of their use of English in English . LIT Verlag, Münster 2004, ISBN 3-8258-7283-1 . (Dissertation)
- Public relations in a cultural comparison: The language of the annual reports of US and German companies . Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-57870-4 . (Habilitation thesis)
Web links
- Wawra at her chair at the University of Passau
- Wawra at the Presidium of the German University Association
1. Chair of Literary Studies: Karl Luick (1898–1908) | Alois Pogatscher (1908–1911) | Albert Eichler (1911–1944) | Herbert Koziol (1944–1961) | Franz Karl Stanzel (1962–1993) | Werner Wolf (since 1994)
2. Chair of Linguistics I: Hans Ernst Pinsker (1967–1970) | Wolfgang Viereck (1973–1978) | Alwin Fill (1980-2008) | Catharina Henrica Elisabeth Mennen (since 2015)
3. Chair of Linguistics II: Wolfgang Riehle (1973–2006) | Daniela Wawra (2009-2010) | Remus Gergel (2012–2016) | Gunther Kaltenböck (since 2019)
4th Chair for Subject Didactics I: Sarah Jane Mercer (since 2015)
5th Chair of Didactics II: Elizabeth Erling (since 2017)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wawra, Daniela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German linguist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1973 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Memmingen |