Ursula Lenker

Ursula Lenker, Dr. phil.

Professor and Chair for English Linguistics and Medieval Studies at Munich University (homepage)

Commission member of the Academy project Runic Writing in the Germanic Languages (RuneS); since March 2010 head of the research unit Eichstätt-München (together with E. Ronneberger-Sibold and A. Bammesberger).

Academic career:
1982–1988 study of school subjects English and Catholic religious education University of Munich; 1988 degrees of Magister Artium and first state exam for teachers at grammar schools; 1989–1991 teacher training (second state exam); 1995 PhD degree; 2007 Habilitation at the University of Munich.
1991–1998 research assistant at the Institute for English Philology at the University of Munich and the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt; 1998–2007 researcher at the Institute for English Philology at the University of Munich; 2007–2013 Chair for English Linguistics at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (2008: Declining of calls to the universities of Heidelberg and Zurich).

Since 2013 Chair for English Linguistics and Medieval Studies at Munich University; current homepage:  http://www.anglistik.uni-muenchen.de/personen/professoren/lenker/index.html. 

Main research interests:
Language, literature and culture of Anglo-Saxon England, in particular manuscripts and text design, Latin and Old English liturgical texts; Historical syntax, Pragmatics, Text linguistics and Lexicology of English; Language change.

Ursula Lenker is co-editor of Anglia. Journal of English Philology.