Beatrix Busse Professor of English Linguistics / Vice-Rector for Teaching and Studies at the University of Cologne

Beatrix Busse is Professor of English Linguistics and Vice-Rector for Teaching and Studies at the University of Cologne. She is the Chief Development Officer of the European University for Well-Being (EUniWell). Beatrix Busse studied English and history at the universities of Osnabrück and Keele (GB). She received her doctorate in English linguistics from the University of Münster in 2004, and she obtained her Habilitation at the University of Bern (CH) in 2010. In 2011, Beatrix Busse was appointed a full professor for English linguistics at Heidelberg University. From 2013 to 2019 Beatrix Busse also held the position of Vice-Rector for Studies and Teaching at Heidelberg University. Her research areas include Corpus Linguistics, the History of the English Language and language in Urban Space. She is a British Academy Visiting Fellow. She is the Co-Founder of the Heidelberg School of Education and was a founding member of the DFG-funded research training group “Authority and Trust in American Culture, Society, History and Politics. Among others” She is the reviews editor of the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics on the editorial board of the Continuum series Advances in Stylistics. Beatrix Busse’s scholarly interests include the history of English, (historical) sociopragmatics, stylistics, corpus linguistics, transfer linguistics, and language in urban space. Her DFG funded project heidelGram is a corpus-based network analysis of English grammar books between 1550 and 1900. Among her other recent projects are speech, writing, and thought presentation in the history of English, language in urban place, and discursive place-making in Brooklyn, New York. As vice rector for teaching and learning one of her main aims is to co-create the future of research-based teaching and learning in a globalized, post-digital, highly dynamic and fragile world and under a well-being agenda. Beatrix Busse is the Chief Development Officer of EUniWell –the European University for Well-Being – which unites eleven European universities from across diverse European regions. She is also the chair of the board of FOREU4ALL, the community of practice uniting all 65 European Universities. Beatrix Busse is also the Deputy Chair of the Executive Board of the Coimbra Universities Group.