Ute Smit

University of Vienna

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University of Vienna

Ute Smit

I am an applied linguist working at an English Department, which I guess also explains my interest in ‘real-world’ issues connected to English. As the majority of my students are becoming teachers (and I trained as a teacher myself, long ago), my main focus has been on English in and around education, in Austria, Europe more generally, and also in South Africa – actually, that’s where I started off doing research on the whole.

  • Present Position
    Professor of English Linguistics (Univ.Prof.) at the University of Vienna, Department of English / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (since 2019)
    Deputy Head of Research Platform “Mediatised Lifeworlds Young people's narrative constructions, connections and appropriations”
  • Previous Positions
    at the University of Vienna and elsewhere

    University of Vienna (Department of English / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik):

    • Associate Professor (2009-2019)
    • Lecturer (1997-2009)
    • Junior Lecturer (1993-1997)

    Management Positions:

    • Head of Department (2018–2020)
    • Deputy Head of Department ("Vizeinstitutsvorständin")at the Department of English / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (2016-2018, 2020-2022)
    • Director of Studies ("Studienprogrammleiterin")at the Department of English / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (2010-2012)
    • Deputy Director of Studies ("Vize-Studienprogrammleiterin")at the Department of English / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik (2008-2010)

    Teacher at Secondary Schools in Austria and South Africa (1991-1992)

  • International
    Research Stays
    • Visiting scholar, Institute for Language and Culture, University of Southampton, England (February 2014)
    • Senior researcher, Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (January 2013 - June 2013)
    • Research fellow at the Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University, South Africa (October 1992 - March 1993)
  • International
    Teaching Experience

    ERASMUS Exchange Lecturer

    • Department of English Studies, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain (April 2014 )
    • English Department, University of Zurich, Switzerland (November 2008 )

    Visiting Professor

    • Visiting professor (50%) at Department of English, University of Graz (October 2009 - January 2010 )

    Visiting Lecturer

    • Department of Linguistics, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa (July - August 2010; July - August 2012 )
  • Services
    to the Scientific Community
    • Member of the Board of ICLHE, the Association for Integrating Content and Language in Higher Education (2017 ongoing)
    • Team member in the research group on El papel de la lengua inglesa en la internacionalización de la educación superior/The role of English in the Internationalisation of Spanish Higher Education (EngInHE) (UCM Reference: 940940), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
    • Co-founding organiser (2006 - 2014) of the Research Network on “CLIL and Immersion Education: Applied Linguistic perspectives” of the International Association of Applied Linguistics (AILA)
    • Member of the Board of verbal (Austrian Association of Applied Linguists) (2001 - 2014)
    • Reviewer for numerous internationally accredited journals, publishers and funding bodies
    • Member of program committees for various international conferences
    • Member of advisory boards of the Journal of English Medium Instruction, Complutense Journal of English Studies and the Taiwan Journal of TESOL
    • Member of the Steering Committee of international projects: (a) Getting to the CoRe: a Communicative Receptive approach to language learning and mutual understanding in multilingual academic contexts (2023-2027, PI: Rick de Graaff, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands;
      (b) the ETOS Project (2019-2020, “Evaluation of Bilingual Education”, PI Lisbet Brevik, University of Oslo, Norway)
  • Education
    and Training

    • "Habilitation"

      (Post-Ph.D., in English linguistics), University of Vienna (2008 )

    • Ph.D.

      in English linguistics, University of Vienna< (1995 )

    • M.A. and teaching diploma

      University of Vienna (1990 )