Faculty

Faculty Board

The Faculty Board’s function is to consider all matters of fundamental importance to the faculty. These include

  • Regulations that govern degree courses and examinations
  • Proposals for the institution or suspension of degree courses
  • Coordination of research projects
  • Implementation of the staff structure plan
  • Approval and monitoring of the strategic plan agreed between the Faculty and the governing body of the University
  • Decisions on professorial appointments
  • Delegation of research and teaching tasks to faculty members
  • Proposals concerning the institution or suspension of technical resources
  • Decisions on the establishment of committees
  • Regulations concerning the use of faculty property
  • Election of the Dean, the faculty examination board, the curricular advisory body, and the faculty representatives on the university examination board; appointment of the board of electors

Dates and venues of Faculty Board meetings

Meetings are held on the Westend Campus on Wednesdays from 2.15 p.m. at various venues. For the precise date and venue of each meeting, enquire at the Dean’s office (dekanat10@lingua.uni-frankfurt.de).

Members of the Faculty Board

The Faculty Board comprises: seven professors, three students, two non-professorial teaching staff and one member of the administrative or technical staff. The members of the Dean’s Office are on the Faculty Board in an advisory capacity. The Dean is Chair of the Faculty Board.

Professors (7)

Member Replacement

Markus Bader
Department of Linguistics

Caroline Féry
Department of Linguistics 

Katharina Hartmann
Department of Linguistics

Thomas Ede Zimmermann
Department of Linguistics

Susanne Komfort-Hein
Department of German Literature 

Heinz Drügh
Department of German Literature 

Cecilia Poletto
Department of Romance Literatures and Languages

Esther Rinke-Scholl
Department of Romance Literatures and Languages

Petra Schulz
Department of Psycholinguistics

Manfred Sailer
Department of English and American Studies

Johannes Völz
Department of English and American Studies

Britta Viebrock
Department of German Literature  
Julia Zernack
Department of Scandinavian Studies
Achim Geisenhanslüke
Department of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature

 

Non-professorial teaching staff (2)

Member Replacement

Daniel Dornhofer
Department of English and American Studies

Frank Estelmann
Department of Romance Literatures and Languages

Gabriele Rohowski
Department of German Literature  

Nataša Bedeković
Department of German Literature  

Students (3)

Member Replacement

Anna Reuter

Lena Dunker

Felix Blaurock

Jana Fritzsche

Jan Bunte

Melissa Kaletsch

Member of the administrative or technical staff (1)

Member Replacement

Anke Stakemann
Department of Linguistics

Sandy Scheffler
Department of German Literature  

updated: April 2018