Prof. Dr. Robert Fuchs

Associate Professor for English Linguistics

English Linguistics

Address

Universität Hamburg

Faculty of Humanities

SLM II

Institute of English and American Studies

Von-Melle-Park 6, Postfach #23

20146 Hamburg

Office

Room: B10009

Office hours

list of office hours

Contact

Tel: +49 40 42838-1684

Email: robert.fuchs"AT"uni-hamburg.de

Key aspects of activity

Language variation and change
World Englishes
Learner Englishes
Gender and language
Acoustic phonetics
Corpus linguistics
Discourse analysis
Language attitudes

More information is available at:

https://sites.google.com/view/rflinguistics/home

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Awards

2018:

Book prize for linguistics (category B) by the European Society for the Study of English for monograph on "Speech Rhythm in Varieties of English: Evidence from Educated Indian English and British English" (Springer, 2016)

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Research Projects

EU COST Action Language in the Human Machine Era: Management Committee member; 2020-22 chair of the working group on Language Variation and Change
DFG-Project: The Impact of Public Discourse on Health Care Utilization during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The Language of Lockdown: Multimodality in online communication across World Englishes (with Dr. Guyanne Wilson, Dortmund)
Compilation of the German-English component of the Multilingual Student Translation Corpus (MUST); with PD Dr. Valentin Werner, Bamberg, and Dr. Sven Leuckert, Dresden
Effects of dialect and setting on word stress perception in Indian English (funded by the ARC Centre of Excellence, The Dynamics of Language; Australian Research Council); with Dr. Olga Maxwell, Melbourne, Australia, and Dr. Elinor Payne, Oxford, UK

Workshops

Workshop „English in India and Indian Englishes: New Horizons in the Study of Phonetics and Phonology“ (Ph-IndE1)

PhD students and project members

Xiaofang Duan, PhD student on scholarship, project: "Effectiveness of cognitive linguistic approaches in language teaching: empirical evidence from classroom-based studies in a Chinese EFL context"
Julia Schilling, M.Ed., project staff
Tjorven Halves, student working on the student research project "COVID-19 Discourses in Traditional and Social Media in India and the United Kingdom" (DisCOVIndUK), funded by the Digital and Data Literay in Teaching Lab (Supervisor of the project: Prof. Fuchs)
Ylvi Lüth, student working on the student research project "Social media discourse on AI use in education " (AI in education), funded by DDLitLab (Supervisor of the project: Prof. Fuchs)
Dana Kenzhekeyeva, student working on the student research project "Social media discourse on AI use in education " (AI in education), funded by DDLitLab (Supervisor of the project: Prof. Fuchs)

Since 02/2018	Associate Professor (English Linguistics; German title "Juniorprofessor") University of Hamburg, Germany Department of English
09/2016 - 01/2018	Research Assistant Professor (Linguistics) Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong SAR, China Department of English Language and Literature
08/2013 – 08/2016	Research Associate Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany English Department
08/2011 – 07/2013	Research Assistant Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (until 8/2012 in DFG-Project “Standardisation Processes in Nigerian English”)
08/2010 – 07/2011	Research Assistant Universität Augsburg, Germany English Department DFG-Project "Standardisation Processes in Nigerian English" (PI Ulrike Gut)

08/2010 - 04/2014	Dr. phil. (= PhD) in English Linguistics Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany (Advisor Ulrike Gut) Title: Speech Rhythm in Educated Indian English and British English
02-03/2012, 02-03/2013	Fieldwork for PhD project in Hyderabad, India
10/2003 - 04/2010	Magister Artium (combined MA) Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Major in English Linguistics, Minors in Computer Science and Law
	Terms abroad at Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Krakow, Poland in 2008/9 (with scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service) and at the Central Institute for English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, India (2006/7)