Curriculum Vitae
2014- | member of the advisory board of the Austrian Research Community (ÖFG) |
| since 2010 | corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| 2008- 2017 | head of the Department of English Studies |
| 2003- 2009 | member of the Senate of the University of Graz |
| 1999- 2001 | head of the Department of English Studies |
| since 1998 | founding member of the WMA (International Association for Word and Music Studies); currently member of the executive board and treasurer |
| since 1994 | chair of English and General Literature at the University of Graz/Austria |
| 1993 ff. | received offers of chairs and professorships from the universities of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität), Tübingen, Graz and Heidelberg |
| 1992 | interim professor of English at the University of Munich |
| 1991- 1994 | senior assistant professor of English literature, University of Munich |
| 1991 | Habilitation (postdoctoral degree); thesis: Ästhetische Illusion und Illusionsdurchbrechung in der Erzählkunst (Aesthetic Illusion and Breaking Illusion in Narrative Fiction); supervisor: Ulrich Broich; the thesis was awarded a prize from the Deutscher Anglistentag (organization of German university professors of English) for the best Habilitation in the period 1988-1992 |
| 1985- 1991 | assistant professor of English literature, University of Munich |
| 1985 | second state examination for grammar school teachers in Bavaria/Germany (subjects: English and French) |
| 1984 | PhD/University of Munich; thesis in French literature: Ursprünge und Formen des empfindsamen Dramas in Frankreich (Origins and Forms of Sentimental Drama in France); supervisor: Rainer Warning |
| 1983- 1985 | grammar school teacher training course (Referendariat): English and French |
| 1981 | M.A./University of Munich; thesis in French literature: Die Empfindsamkeit bei Beaumarchais (Sensibility in Beaumarchais's Plays); supervisor: Rainer Warning |
| 1981 | first state examination for grammar school teachers in Bavaria/Germany (subjects: English and French) |
| 1974 ff. | studied English, French, German and philosophy in Munich, Canterbury/England and Toulouse/France; received a scholarship from the land Bavaria for highly gifted students (Bayerische Hochbegabtenförderung); was member of the 'Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes' (German National Study Foundation) |
| 1955 | born in Munich/Germany |
Further biographical data: married since 1980, two daughters born in 1985 and 1987; Catholic; has lived in Graz/Austria since 1995; hobbies: literature; music, including playing the church organ; hiking; cycling.
Em.o.Univ.-Prof. Mag.art. Dr.phil.
Institut für Anglistik
Werner Wolf
Institut für Anglistik
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