Prof. Dr. Christa Kilian-Hatz

• 1983
  Abitur (A-levels), Ludwig Wilhelm Gymnasium (grammar school) for the humanities, Rastatt, Germany
  
  

• 1983 – 1985
  Trained as an insurance agent at the firm Münchner Rückversicherungs AG, Munich, Germany
  
  

• 1984 – 1985
  Cathedral school of Würzburg, Germany, one-year basic distance education course in theology
  
  

• 1986 – 1987
  Development worker with the Baka people of southeastern Cameroon
  
  

• 1987
  Trained as an auto-evaluation coach, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Development, Brussels, Belgium
  
  

• 1987 – 1993
  Master's course in African studies, general linguistics and anthropology, Philosophical Faculty, University of Cologne, Germany
  
  

• 1989 – 1992
  Teaching assistant
  
  

• 1993
  Completed examinations
  
  

• 1993 – 2005
  Instructor and research assistant, African Studies Department, University of Cologne
  
  

• 1995
  PhD
  
  

• 1997 – 1999
  Habilitation (postdoctoral qualification) fellowship from the German Research Foundation (DFG)
  
  

• 2002
  Habilitation : attained the status of private lecturer – conferment of the venia legendi (authorisation to teach) in the field of African studies
  
  

• 2002 – 2007
  Elite fellowship within the DFG's Heisenberg programme
  
  

• 2003
  Invited by Alexandra A. Aikhenvald and Bob Dixon to participate in the international workshop "Serial verb constructions" at the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University, Australia
  
  

• 2005
  Second Habilitation: conferment of the venia legendi (authorisation to teach) in the field of African linguistics in Frankfurt, Germany
  
  

• Since 2005
  Senior lecturer in the Linguistics and Cultural Studies section of Goethe University Frankfurt
  
  

• Since 2008
  Director of the Institute of Orthographic and Speech Competence (LOS)
  
  

• Kilian-Hatz, Christa (1989): Contes et proverbes des pygmées Baka. (Paroles d'Afrique). Paris: Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique (ACCT).

• Kilian-Hatz, Christa (1995): Das Baka: Grundzüge einer Grammatik aus der Grammatikalisierungsperspektive. Afrikanistische Monographien (AMO) 6. Cologne: University of Cologne.

• Kilian-Hatz, Christa (1999a): Folktales of the Kxoe (A Khoisan group in West Caprivi/Namibia). (Namibian African Studies 6). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.

• Kilian-Hatz, Christa (1999b): Ideophone: Eine typologische Untersuchung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung afrikanischer Sprachen. Habilitation (postdoctoral) thesis. Cologne: University of Cologne

• Kilian-Hatz, Christa (2002): Contes des Bakas (Sud-Est Cameroun). (Wortkunst und Dokumentartexte in afrikanischen Spra¬chen 16). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.

• Kilian-Hatz, Christa (2003): Khwe dictionary. (Namibian African Studies 7). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.

• Kilian-Hatz, Christa (2006a): Serial verb constructions in Khwe (Central-Khoisan). In: Aikhenvald, Alexan-dra Y. & R.M. Dixon (eds.). Serial verb constructions: A cross-linguistic typology. (Explorations in Linguistic Typology). Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 108-123.

• Kilian-Hatz, Christa (2008a): Contes des Pygmées baka du Cameroun. (Schriften zur Afrikanistik – Research in African Studies 14). Frankfurt: Peter Lang.

• Kilian-Hatz, Christa (2008b): A grammar of modern Khwe. (Quellen zur Khoisanforschung 23). Cologne: Rüdiger Köppe.

• Kilian-Hatz, Christa (2009): Participant marking in Khwe (Central-Khoisan). In: Dimmendaal, Gerrit (ed.). Coding participant marking: Construction types in twelve African languages. (Studies in Language Companian Series 110). Amsterdam – Philadelphia: John Benjamins. pp. 215-237.

• Exhibition of original pygmy drawings ("Mediendesign Otterbach" gallery, Baden-Baden, Germany), 2006

• Work on various German Research Foundation (DFG) research projects, 1993 – 1997

• Member of the "Pedagogy" and "Young adults" working groups, Institute of Orthography and Speech Competence (LOS)

• Member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies (ZIAF/VAD)

• Member of an interdisciplinary German Research Foundation (DFG) Collaborative Research Centre, 1999 – 2005

Main duties as institute director:

• Founding of the institute (incl. the furnishing of its building and premises)

• Management (marketing, accounting, acquisitions, publicity work, personnel)

• Therapy for dyslexic children, adolescents and young adults in German and English

• Training of LOS (Institute of Orthographic and Speech Competence) pedagogues

• Director of a state-wide study, throughout Hesse, Germany, of dyslexic children and adolescents (in collaboration with the University of Cologne, Germany)

• Supervision of PhD students

Research trips:

• To work with the Khwe people of northern Namibia (Caprivi): 1997, 1999 and 2000 (5 months per visit); 2001, 2003 and 2005 (2 months per visit)

• To work with the Baka people of southeastern Cameroon: 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1991 (3 months per visit)

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