Marit
Kristine Westergaard
Dr. Philos. Linguistics (Tromsø)
Cand. Philol. English, German, Linguistics (Tromsø, Bergen, Oslo)
MA Linguistics (UC San Diego)
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PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
- Director of CASTL, Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical
Linguistics, A Norwegian Center of Excellence, 2009 -
- Senior Researcher, CASTL, 2009 -
- Professor of English, University of Tromsø, 2009 -
- Professor of Linguistics, University of Tromsø, 2009
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- Associate Professor of
English
linguistics, University of Tromsø, 1988 - 2008
- Assistant Professor, University of Tromsø,
1986 - 1988
- Research
fellow (English for Specific Purposes),
University of Tromsø, 1985 - 1986
Miscellaneous (a
selection)
- Member of the Executive Committee of IASCL (International Association for the Study of Child Language), 2011-
- Member of the editorial board of Nordic Journal of Linguistics, 2010- .
- Reviewer for various publishers, including the journals Studia
Linguistica, Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Inquiry
Squibs, Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Journal of Child Language, Nordic Journal of Linguistics.
- Reviewer
for various conferences, e.g. GLOW (Generative Linguistics of the Old
World), DiGS (Diachronic Generative Syntax Conference), IGG (Incontro
Grammatica Generativa).
- Member of search committee for lectureship in English at Lund University, 2011.
- Member of evaluation committee for promotion to full professor in English linguistics, Oslo College, 2011.
- Member of Habilitation committee, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 2011.
- Member
of doctoral committee for Madeleine Halmøy (with Professors Greville
Corbett and Helge Dyvik), April 2010. Dissertation title: The Norwegian Nominal System – A Neo-Saussurean Perspective.
- Member of accreditation panel
(ACE Denmark) to evaluate the Bachelor and Master programs in English
at the University of Copenhagen, May/June 2008.
- Opponent at the doctoral
defense for Christian Waldmann, Lund
University, May 31, 2008. Dissertation title: Från V2 til
icke-V2-ordføljd: Input og output i svenska barns verbplacering.
[From
V2 to Non-V2: Input and Output in Swedish Children’s Verb Placement.
- On the organizing committee
for the following conferences at the University of Tromsø: CGSW
2010, 1992, GLOW 1995, SCL 2002.
- Organized a number of workshops, e.g. The Acquisition of Linguistic Variation, Tromsø 2010 (with Kristine Bentzen and Øystein Vangsnes), Optionality
in the Input: Children’s Acquisition of Variable Word Order,
GLOW XXX, Tromsø 2007 (with Merete Anderssen and Kristine Bentzen),
Workshop on Language Acquisition at Scandinavian Conference of
Linguistics, Aalborg, Denmark 2006 (with Merete Anderssen), and
Workshop on Language Acquisition at Scandinavian Conference of
Linguistics, Tromsø 2002.
- Organized
National Research Courses in Language Acquisition, e.g. 2003 (with Curt
Rice and Beate Lindemann) with speakers Manfred Pienemann, Paula
Fikkert and Clartje Levelt, and 2007 (with Merete Anderssen) with
speakers Sergey Avrutin, Natascha Müller and Antonella Sorace.
- Member of panel to evaluate
applications for LINGUA Programs A, B and E, Norwegian Centre for
International Cooperation in Higher Education (SIU), 1998-99
- External examiner (sensor)
in English linguistics for
various universities/colleges in Norway, at all levels, 1992-present
(e.g. University of Oslo, University of Bergen, Norwegian University of
Science and Technology (NTNU), Agder College, Østfold College, etc.).
- Member of a number of search
committees/evaluation committees (bedømmelseskomiteer)
for the same institutions.
SCHOLARSHIPS/VISITS
ABROAD
- Guest researcher at Sonderforschungsbereich Mehrsprachigkeit, Universität Hamburg, April 2011.
- Visiting
scholar at Humboldt
Universität zu Berlin, fall 2008.
- ERASMUS Exchange at Ca’
Foscari University, Venice, Italy, November 2007.
- Visiting
scholar at CISCL,
University
of Siena, Italy, spring 2006.
- Sabbatical
in Flensburg,
Germany, spring 2004 and fall 2006.
- Visiting
scholar at St. Olaf College,
Northfield,
MN, 2001 and summers 2002 and 2003.
- Fulbright
Foundation grant for research scholars,
1990-91: Research associate at University
of California, Santa Cruz.
- Rotary
Foundation Graduate Scholarship, 1983-84:
Graduate student at University of
California, San Diego.
ADMINISTRATIVE
EXPERIENCE (a selection)
- Member of the Board,
Tromsø Research Foundation, 2007-
- Substitute representative to the Board of the PhD program, Faculty for Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, 2010-.
- Representative to the Board of the PhD program, Humanities Faculty, 2009.
- Vice chair of the Department
of Language and Linguistics, 2005-2007
- Chair of
the board for the integrated Masters
program for teachers: 2003-2005, 2005-2009
- Representative on the
board for the study program in economics and language, 2005-2009
- Representative, Board
of the Department of
Language and Linguistics, 2003-2005
- Representative,
English Department Council,
1997-99, 2001-2003
- Representative,
Humanities Faculty Board,
1997-99, alternate 2001-2003
- Representative, Board
of the University of
Tromsø (1st alternate), 1999-2001
- Member
of
the Board of the Norwegian Study Centre
in Great Britain, 1991-2001
- Member
of
the Board of UNISCENE (European
University Network for Innovative Student-centred Education), 1998-2001
- Representative to the
European educational program
LINGUA, 1995-2000
- Contact
person for various ERASMUS agreements with
European universities
- Chair of
Teaching Committee
(Undervisningsutvalget),
Humanities Faculty, 1997-1999
- Representative,
Council
of employment (Tilsettingsrådet),
University of Tromsø, 1995-1996
- Head of
the English Department, 1991-1993
- Member
of
the English Department’s “Three-term
committee” and main
organizer of the Department’s three-term project (initiated by the
Ministry of Education), 1991-1993
- Contact
person for the Norwegian Study Centre in
York, 1986-1990, 1999-2000, 2001-2003
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