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Experience
1990 to present
Author of 15
books, including textbooks for English and American slang;
two books on computers and the Internet, and, most recently,
two books on intercultural topics, focusing on China and the
United States. Currently working on a third book on China.
February 2008
to present
Editor, writer and graphic
artist for scientific communication, European Center for Disease Prevention and Control,
Stockholm, Sweden.
2002 to 2006
Freelance
project consultant for Icon Institute Public Sector GmbH.
Carried out ten missions in China (total duration almost two
years), providing assistance to the EU-China Training
Programme on Village Governance.
1997 to 1999
Lecturer at
Department of Linguistics, Universität Mannheim, Germany.
1992 to 1997
Lecturer for
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) at Beijing
International Studies University, China.
1990 to 1992
Lecturer for
German as a Second Language, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität,
Mainz, Germany, and Johann Wolfgang-Goethe-Universität,
Germany.
1988 to 1990
Lecturer for
German as a Second Language, Community College, Mainz,
Germany.
1986 to 1987
Teaching
Assistant, German Department, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana/Illinois, USA. Postgraduate
Research on Computers in the Humanities.
1983 to 1984
Teaching
Assistant/Research Assistant, Department of Germanic
Languages and Literatures, Washington University, St.
Louis/Missouri, USA.
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Education
1986 to 1987
Comparative
Literature, Computers in the Humanities, and German as a
Foreign Language. University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Urbana/Illinois, USA.
1985 to 1986
German
Literature, American Studies, Art History, and Art
Education. Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany.
1983 to 1984
German
Literature, Comparative Literature. Washington University,
St. Louis/Missouri, USA. M.A. (Magister Artium) in German
and Comparative Literature.
1981 to 1983
German
Literature, Art History, and Art Education.
Rheinisch-Westfälisch Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany.
Scholarships
1986 to 1987
DAAD scholarship
offer to study at Bowling Green University. (I did not
accept this award because I had already taken on a TA
position at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
1983 to 1984
DAAD scholarship
to study at Washington University, one of the United States'
top ten universities.
1976
Skipped over
tenth grade to graduate one year early from
Carl-Bosch-Gymnasium (High School), Ludwigshafen, Germany.
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