Lutz Marten - Curriculum Vitae#
Education
- 2003 - 2004 PG Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, Open University
- 1995 - 1999 PhD in Linguistics, SOAS, University of London
- 1993 - 1994 MA in Linguistics (Distinction), SOAS, University of London
- 1988 - 1995 Degree Programme English, Philosophy and African Studies, University of Hamburg
Career Summary
- 2012 to date Professor of General and African Linguistics, SOAS
- 2020 - 2023 Head of the SOAS Doctoral School
- 2015 - 2019 Director of the London Confucius Institute, SOAS
- 2015 - 2018 Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Cultures, SOAS
- 2011 - 2012 Head of the Department of Linguistics, SOAS
- 2002 - 2012 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader, SOAS
- 2000 - 2002 Millennium Research Fellow, SOAS
Contribution and Recognition
- Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
- Founding Chair of the International Bantu Languages Conference
- Editor of the Transactions of the Philological Society
- Member of the HEFCE REF2014 and REF2021 Area Studies Sub-panels
- Fieldwork in Kenya (Taveta), Malawi (Chichewa), Namibia (Herero), Tanzania (Swahili), Zambia (Bemba)
- Invited keynote lectures incl. SWL4 (Lyon), ICHL16 (Heidelberg), AFALA (Nairobi), LSSA (Johannesburg), ALCS (Beijing)
- Invited teaching incl. Beijing Foreign Studies University, Düsseldorf, Helsinki, São Paulo
- Visiting fellowships incl. CALDi Cape Town, ILLCA Tokyo, LOT Dar es Salaam, ZAS Berlin
Selected Research Grants
- BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant ‘An initial description of the Kitaveta language’ (2020-23)
- Leverhulme Grant ‘Morphosyntactic variation in Bantu: Typology, contact and change’ (2014-17)
- BA UK-Africa Academic Partnership ‘Studies of Southern African Languages’ (2007-10)
- CETL Languages of the Wider World Grant ‘Virtual and actual Zulu’ (2006-08)
