Maj Britt Hansen

Professor of French Language and Linguistics at Alliance Manchester Business School

Schools

  • Alliance Manchester Business School

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Biography

Alliance Manchester Business School

Biography

Professional biography

M.A. (1992), Ph.D. (1996), dr.phil. (Higher doctorate) (2008) Copenhagen.

Elected Fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (2013)

Previous appointments

Assistant/Associate Professor (1996-2007), Copenhagen

Editorial work

  • Co-editor of Studies In Pragmatics
  • Editorial board: Langue française
  • Advisory board:  Revue Romane, Pragmatics and Society and Corpora and Language in Use
  • Scientific committee: SCOLIA, Discours, and Langages et Interactions
  • Occasional reviewer for 25+ journals and publishers, incl.: Journal of French Language Studies, Journal of Pragmatics, Langages, Language Variation and Change, Lingua, Linguistics, De Gruyter Mouton, Elsevier, John Benjamins and OUP.

Consultancy

  • Member of evaluation panels for Linguistics, Swedish Research Council (2013-15), Flemish Research Foundation (FWO)(2014-16)
  • Chair/member of international advisory committees reviewing the Department of Linguistics CLESTHIA - Langues, systèmes, discours, University of Paris 3 (2018), the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics and the Nordic Research Institute, University of Copenhagen (2017-18), the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna (2014) and the Department of French Studies and Modern Languages, University of Cyprus (2010)
  • Member of selection committee (Jury Junior), Institut Universitaire de France (2009)
  • Occasional external assessor for research councils and other external funding bodies in Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK
  • External assessor of appointments/promotions at Aston, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Oxford, Sussex, British Columbia, Copenhagen, Leuven, Ohio, Trondheim, and Wuerzburg.
  • Thesis committees at Manchester, London Queen Mary, Swansea, Aix-Marseille 1, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and Tuebingen.

 

Further information

Additional Information

Email:

Maj-Britt dot MosegaardHansen at manchester dot ac dot uk

Appointments: 

By email only. I am on research leave during the period 1 September 2017 - 31 August 2018 and have no regular office hours.

Recent administrative duties

  • Head of Division, Linguistics and English Language (2014-2017)
  • Head of Division, Languages and Intercultural Studies (2015-2016)

Service

  • Member of the Council of the Philological Society
  • Member of the Consultation Board of the International Pragmatics Association (2012-2017)
  • Board of external supervisors, Graduate School on "Ambiguity", Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany (2013-)
  • External examiner in French Studies at the Danish Universities (2002-)

Some recent and future events organized

  • Panel on "Cyclicity in Semantic/Pragmatic Change" at 15th International Pragmatics Conference, Belfast, July 2017
  • Section on "La sémantique" at 5e Congrès mondial de linguistique française, Tours, July 2016
  • (- with Rosina Marquez Reiter) Panel on "(Co-)constructing interpersonally sensitive activities across institutional settings" at the 13th International Pragmatics Conference, Delhi, September 2013

 

 

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