Vice-President for Professorial AppointmentsProfessor Anke Holler
Professor Anke Holler has been Vice-President at Göttingen University, in addition to her academic role, since April 2021. The University Senate elected the linguist for a first term of two years and a second term of four (until 2027). Holler has been a member of the Senate Commission for Information Management (2013 - 2015) and the Senate Commission for Development and Finance (2015 - 2021) at Göttingen University and has been the Senate's representative for the humanities on the Göttingen Campus Council from 2018 to 2021.
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
- Descriptive Grammar of Modern German
- Formal grammar and linguistic theory
- Experimental linguistics and text understanding
- Natural Language Processing
- Linguistics and literature
Academic and professional career
2011 | W3-Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Göttingen |
2008 | W2-Professor of German Linguistics at the University of Göttingen |
2007 | Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessorin, W1 tenure track to W2) of Formal Grammar and Psycholinguistics at the University of Göttingen |
2006 - 2007 | Replacement of a W3 Professorship for Computational linguistics, University of Heidelberg |
2005 - 2006 | Replacement of a W3 Professorship for German language and its teaching, PH Karlsruhe |
2003 - 2007 | Postdoctoral researcher at the Department for Computational Linguistics at Heidelberg University |
2002 | Dr. phil., University of Tübingen |
2000 - 2003 | Software developer at IBM Germany, and project leader at TEMIS Germany |
1997 - 1999 | Doctoral Researcher at SFB 340, University of Tübingen |
1990 - 1996 | M.A. program: Linguistics, Psychology, and Computer Science at University of Tübingen and University of Massachusetts, Amherst (USA) |
1987 - 1990 | M.A. program: German Studies, University of Leipzig |
Awards, scholarships and memberships
2019 | Offer of a W3-Professorship at the Freie Universität Berlin (declined) |
2018 | Offer of a W3-Professorship at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (declined) |
2014 | Member of AcademiaNet, nominated by Volkswagen Foundation |
2011 - 2012 | Associate Fellow of the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, University of Göttingen |
2011 | Offer of a W3-Professorship at the University of Mannheim (declined) |
2008 | Offer of a W2-Professorship at the University of Wuppertal (declined) |
1992 - 1996 | Full scholarship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung |
Management and committee responsibilities
since 2023 | Member of the Senate and Grants Committee for Research Training Groups of the DFG |
since April 2021 | Vice-President for Professorial Appointments and Equal Opportunities |
since 2018 | Senate representative for the humanities on the Göttingen Campus Council (GCC) |
since 2015 | Member of the Senate Commission for Development and Finance (KEF) |
2013 - 2015 | Member of the Senate Commission for Information Management (KIM) |
2011 - 2015 | Editor of the Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft (Journal of Linguistics), lead 2013-2015 |
2009 - 2021 | Spokesperson of the Courant Research Centre "The Multi-layered Text Protocol: Micro and Macro Level Structures in Written Discourse", later Göttingen Centre "Text Structures" |
since 2008 | Member of the Selection Committee for the Study Support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung |
since 2007 | Member/deputy member of the Structure and Budget Commission of the Faculty of Humanities |
2005 - 2007 | Member of advisory board of the German Society for Linguistics |
Top Publications
- Holler, A. (2022). Text. In: Wöllstein, A., Dudenredaktion (Hrsg.), DUDEN - Die Grammatik: 10., völlig neu verfasste Auflage. Berlin: Dudenverlag.
- Blümel, A. & A. Holler (2022). DP, NP, or neither? Contours of an unresolved debate, Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 7(1): 153, 1-25.
- Holler, A. (2022). Moderne Syntaxtheorien. In: Klabunde, R., W. Mihatsch & S. Dipper (Hrsg.), Linguistik im Sprachvergleich. J.B. Metzler, Berlin, Heidelberg. 241-291.
- Holler, A., K. Suckow & I. de la Fuente (Hrsg.) (2020). Information Structuring in Discourse. Leiden: Brill.
- Holler, A. (2020). Alles eine Frage der Perspektive – Zur sogenannten erlebten Rede im narrativen Text. Zeitschrift für Germanistische Linguistik, 47(1), 28-69.
- Klages, J., E. Kaiser, A. Holler & T. Weskott (2020). Commonalities and Differences in the Interpretation of Predicates of Personal Taste vs. Relational Locative Expressions: Some Theoretical Considerations and Experimental Evidence. Open Library of Humanities, 6(2): 10, 1-30.
- Salem, S., T. Weskott & A. Holler (2017). Does narrative perspective influence readers’ perspective-taking? An empirical study on free indirect discourse, psycho-narration and first-person narration. Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics 2(1): 61, 1-18.
- Holler, A. (2013). Reanalyzing German Correlative ‘es’. In: Müller, S. (Hrsg.), Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Stanford: CSLI Publications, 90-109.
- Ellert, M. & A. Holler (2012). Semantic and Structural Constraints on the Resolution of Ambiguous Personal Pronouns. In: Hendrickx, I., S.L. Devi, A. Branco &
- R. Mitkov (Hrsg.), Anaphora Processing and Applications. Heidelberg: Springer, 157-170.
- Holler, A. (2005). Weiterführende Relativsätze. Empirische und theoretische Aspekte. Berlin: Akademie Verlag (studia grammatica 60).
Office of the Vice-President (in German)
Olga Schwarz
Büro der Vizepräsidentin
Tel. +49 551 39-21026
Fax +49 551 39-18-21026
olga.schwarz@uni-goettingen.de
Dr. Annika Kaufmann
i.V. Persönliche Referentin der Vizepräsidentin für Berufungen
Tel. +49 551 39-21059
Fax +49 551 39-18-21059
referentin.vp-berufungen@uni-goettingen.de
Responsibilities
Appointment and retention matters, in particular:- Appointment planning and appointment strategy
- Appointment monitoring
- Appointment of professorships
- Approvals including resource planning
- Appointment and selection procedures
- Calls for applications
- Appointment and retention negotiations
- Tenure-track for those with professorships and evaluations
- Joint appointments with cooperation partners
- Appointments as adjunct professor, awarding of professorships with titles
- Administration and representation of those with professorships
The following projects:
- Uni 4.0 Appointment portal
- Tenure procedure and introduction of tenure board
- Internationalization of appointment management
Senate Committee for Information Management (KIM)
Departments of the central administration and central institutes
- Appointment management
Representation of the University in boards of trustees/advisory boards
- Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen, Member of the Board
- The Criminological Research Institute of Lower Saxony (KFN), Member of the Board of Trustees
- Stiftung Privaten Rechts der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Member of Stiftungsrat
Strategie Berufungen
Strategie Wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs - Nachwuchsförderung
unterstützende Maßnahme Berufungsmanagement