Visiting Professors

Regensburg Visiting Professors in World Englishes

Internationally renowned linguists have joined or will join us for a while as "Regensburg Visiting Professor in World Englishes" to teach courses to our students, give lectures, and discuss our shared research interests:

• Prof. Lionel Wee (Singapore), December 2011
• Prof. David Deterding (Universiti Brunei Darussalam), June and July 2010
• Prof. Laurie Bauer (Wellington, NZ), October and November 2009
• Prof. Allan Bell (Auckland, NZ), February to July 2009
• Prof. Allan Bell (Auckland, NZ), October and November 2006
• Profs. Jeff Siegel and Diana Eades (then Armidale/Australia, Hawai'i), June 2006
• Prof. Rajend Mesthrie (Cape Town), December 2005 and January 2006.

Graduate Seminars in English Linguistics

This ties in with earlier visits of leading American sociolinguists who taught a "Graduate Seminar in English Linguistics":

• Prof. Walt Wolfram (Raleigh, NC), September 1996
• Prof. Guy Bailey (then Memphis, TN), December 1993.

Alexander-von-Humbold Fellow

• Prof. Dr. Aloysius Ngefac (University of Yaounde I, Cameroon), July 2010 to January 2012, 2023