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Degrees
M.A. in English and Celtic Studies, 1987
PhD in literary translation, 1991
Certificate for Welsh as a Second Language, 1993
Habilitation in British Languages, University of Vienna, 2003
Habilitation in Linguistics, UAM Poznań, 2008
Research interests
Welsh Grammar and Word formation
Lexicography
Sociolinguistics of Celtic languages
Translation theory
Comparative studies on the history of Celtic literatures and on Celtic socio-cultural developments
Teaching experience
Adjunct at Department of English and American Studies at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, Celtic Unit, Acting Head of Unit, SOCRATES (European exchange programme) co-ordinator, 1995 - 2001
Staff exchange - Lectures in Brest/Brittany on "The German Scholar Leo Weisgerber", Celtic Studies and Brittany and "The Present-Day Situation of the Welsh Language", 1999
Lecturing on Welsh Lexicology at the University of Wales, Llanbedr Pont Steffan (in Welsh), 1998
Galway/Ireland: lecturing on Modern Welsh literature and Berlin dialectology, teaching of Welsh, 1997
Welsh and Breton, Humboldt-University of Berlin, 1994 - 1995
Modern Welsh at the Humboldt-University of Berlin, 1992
German Literature and German Language St. David's University College Llanbedr Pont Steffan/Wales, 1991
Medieval Welsh Literature, University of Freiburg i. Br., 1991
Professional organisations
IAUPE - International Association of University Professors
GBS - Gesellschaft fur bedrohte Sprache
SKSK - Studienhaus fur Keltische Sprachen und Kulturen
Societas Celtologica Europaea
Other professional experience
External examiner of the University of Wales, 2010-
German and English at private school in Berlin, 1992
External Examiner for A-levels in German in Wales, 1993/94
German, Welsh-medium Comprehensive School Penweddig in Aberystwyth/Wales, 1993 - 1994
Scholarships
Irish language course in Dublin, 2002
Study visit organised by the Bureau for Lesser Used Languages to the Basque country, 1999
Intensive (Scottish) Gaelic language course in Sabhal Mòr Ostaig/Scotland, 1997
Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Llanbedr Pont Steffan/Wales (Research project on translating and lexicography), 1992 - 1993
Scholarship from British Council in Llanbedr Pont Stefan/Wales, Cwrs Wlpan, Summer 1991
Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in Freiburg i.Br., Celtic and English Studies, 1991
Visiting professor
Visiting Professor of Celtic, University of Vienna/Austria, 2000 - 2002
Visiting Professor in Celtic Studies, English Department, Catholic University of Lublin, 2003 - 2004
Papers read at international conferences and congresses
'Welsh between stability and fragility - consolidated status, but increasing linguistic insecurity - a socio-linguistic paradox?', Douglas, Isle of Man, 2011
'Functions of singulatives and diminutives in P-Celtic languages', Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Sleat, Scotland, UK, 2010
'Afterlife and concepts of the Celtic Otherworld', MESS (Middle English Studies Symposium), Poznań, 2009
'A Romantic 20th c. Welsh view of Polish literature from about 1800 to 1945', Celto-Slavica, Łodź, 2009, (co-authored with Karolina Rosiak)
'The British Tristan Tradition' at Harvard University, USA, 2008
'Diminutive formations in modern Welsh, functions of diminutive formants in Welsh', Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno/Poland 2008
'The Welsh language and its social context' at University of Freiburg/Germany, 2008
'The Owl - a symbolic figure from the dawn of Celtic culture to modern day Wales. Revisiting a Welsh tradition and its cultural context' at Catholic University of Lublin/Poland 2008
Plenary paper 'English literature in Ireland and Wales' at LIES (Literature in English Symposium) in Poznań/Poland 2008
'The Welsh language and its social context' at University of Freiburg/Germany 2007
'Languages in the German Higher Education System (and some absent in any education system)' at conference on regional languages in London/UK 2006
Plenary Paper at PASE-conference: 'Keeping the namescape in translation', Pulawy/Poland 2006
'Celtic Studies in Germany and Poland', conference on regional languages in Oslo/Norway, 2005
'Aspekte der Anglo-Irischen und Anglo-Walisischen Literaturen', 4th Symposium of German-speaking Celtic scholars "Philologische - Historische - Archäologische Evidenzen" in Linz/Austria, 2005
'The education systems in Germany in the second half of the twentieth century', University Morgannwg/GB, 2004
Penal dicussion "Berlin - ddoe a heddiw", University Morgannwg/GB, 2004
'Breton Literature', at conference on matters Celtic in Lublin/Poland, 2004
'Dafydd ap Gwilym und Walter von der Vogelweide - ein Vergleich', Symposium on Walther von der Vogelweide in Tull/Austria, 2003
'The poetry of David Greenslade', paper presented to the Sorbish community in Germany, Dissen, 2003
'Welsh Devolution', at conference "Tut scheiden weh? Vollzogene, unterlassene und bedauerte Trennungen von Staaten und Regionen im Europa des 20. bzw. beginnenden 21. Jahrhunderts, Berlin/Germany 2002
'Welsh: Status top - language flop',symposium "Diachronie und Synchronie europäischer Regionalsprachlichkeit im Vergleich", Internationales Wissenschaftsforum der Universität Heidelberg/Germany 2002
'Angharad Tomos', conference on "Celtic literatures in the twentieth century" in Coleraine/Ulster, 2000
'Zur Objektivierung von Namen in der literarischen Übersetzung', Translating Celtic Literatures, Conference in Königswinter/Bonn, 2000
'Rhannu geiriau yn y Gymraeg', conference "Cymru a'r Cymry 2000" in Aberystwyth/Wales, 2000
'Celtic Literatures', at "Keltischen Literaturtage" in Vienna/Austria, 1999
'The Motif of the Owl in Welsh literature', 11th International Congress of Celtic Studies" in Cork/Ireland, 1999
'Warum trat Weisgerber nicht die Nachfolge von Pokorny an?', XII Internationales Kolloqium des SGS "Interpretation und Re-Interpretation", Münster/Germany 1999
'Celtic Studies in Berlin', International conference "Keltologie an der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität vor und während der Nazionalsozialistischen Periode at the Humboldt University of Berlin/Germany 1998
'Pokorny', conference on Central and Eastern European Research into Pre- and Protohistory between 1933-1945, Humboldt-University, Berlin/Germany 1998
'The Incorporation of Wales into England', Conference Anschlüsse in der Welt, Humboldt-University, Berlin/Germany 1998
'Welsh Diminutives', X International Congress of Celtic Studies, Edinburgh/UK 1995
'Colours in Welsh and German' XIII fit World Congress, Brighton/UK 1993
"Cylch Tafodieithol" in Llanbedr Pont Steffan/Wales: 'Problemau wrth gyfieithu'r nofel Si Hei Lwli gan Angharad Tomos o'r Gymraeg i'r Almaeneg', 1993
Conference organizer
Co-organisation of Celtic session in Poznań Linguistic Meeting "Discourse in Celtic (minority) languages", 2011
Co-organisation of Celtic session in Poznań Linguistic Meeting "Slips and innovations in minority languages in the twenty-first century with an emphasis on P- and Q-Celtic", 2010
Organisation of session 'Scope of theory and practice in contemporary Celtic Studies' at Poznań Linguistic Meeting, 2008
Organisation of the session 'Celtic languages - their description and impact' at Poznań Linguistic Meeting, 2007
Co-organiser of Celtic poetry festival Berlin, 2004
Co-organiser "Keltischen Literaturtage" in Vienna, Austria, 1999
Organiser of the international conference on "Celtic Studies at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University before and during the Nationalist Socialist Period" at the Humboldt-University of Berlin; head of research of related project, 1998
