Thomas Hoffmann - Curriculum Vitae#
Employment:
- 01/2024 Chair (W3) offered by Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (declined)
- 02/2020 Chair (W3) offered by Leipzig University (declined)
- 2014/2015 Chair (W3) offered by KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (accepted)
- Chair (W3) offered by Saarland University (declined)
- Professorship (W2) offered by JG University Mainz (declined)
- 2010 - 2015 Assistant Professor (tenure-track) (English Linguistics / Osnabrück University)
- 2008 - 2010 Assistant Professor (non-tenure-track) (English Linguistics / Regensburg University)
- 2004 - 2007 Teaching and Research Assistant (English Linguistics / Regensburg University)
Major grants:
- 2024-2025 VolkswagenStiftung (Co-PI mit Prof. Dr. Marco Steinhauser, ca. 275,000€)
- “Predictive Construction Grammar – Developing a neuro-cognitive model of linguistic creativity”
- 2021-2025 DFG Sachbeihilfe (PI, ca. 325,000€)
- “Competing Constructions: Preposition Stranding and Pied-Piping in World Englishes”
- 2021-2025 DFG Sachbeihilfe (PI, ca. 230,000€)
- “Comparative Correlative Constructions: The more languages, the better
- 2017-2021 DFG Sachbeihilfe (PI, ca. 210,000€)
- “Englische Komparativ-Korrelativ Konstruktionen: The more data, the better”
Editorship:
- since 11/2025 Associate Editor of Cognitive Linguistics
- since 2022 with Alexander Bergs, Editor-in-Chief. Elements in Construction Grammar. Cambridge University Press.
- since 2015 Editor-in-Chief (2015–2022) and Senior Consulting Editor (since 2022) of the platinum open access journal Constructions
- 2014 - 2020 Area Editor Syntax of Linguistics Vanguard
- Member of the Editorial Boards of Cognitive Linguistic Studies (since 2024), Cognitive Semantics (since 2024), English Text Construction (since 2026), English World-Wide (since 2013), The University of Nairobi Journal of Language and Linguistics (since 2010)
Academic Management (executive positions only):
- since 2021 Chair of the University Senate (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
- 2017 - 2021 Dean of the School of Languages and Literary Studies (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
- 2015 - 2017 Vice Dean of the School of Languages and Literary Studies (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
- 2017 - 2017 Head of Department (English Studies / Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt)
- 2014 - 2015 Head of Department (English Studies / Osnabrück University)
- 2011 - 2015 Member of the Executive Board of the School of Languages and Literary Studies (Osnabrück University)
- 2012 - 2015 Deputy Head of Department (English Studies / Osnabrück University)
- 2005 - 2010 Director of Studies for English Linguistics (University of Regensburg)
