Karen Grunow-hårsta
Senior Lecturer
School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Anglo-American University
Czech Republic
Biography
Karen Grunow-Hårsta, PhD, is a senior lecturer and Chair of the department of English and Academic Writing at Anglo-American University. She earned her PhD degree in Linguistics from UWM (Milwaukee) where she taught for 5 years. She has also taught and conducted research at Uppsala University, Sweden; Brock University, Canada; Middlesex and Wollongong Universities in Dubai, and at the Chinese University and Polytechnical University in Hong Kong as a postdoctoral fellow. She also holds an. M.A. in Art History and undergraduate degrees in literature and education.
Research Interest
Linguistics, Endangered Languages and Language Conservation,Tibeto-Burman Grammaticalization, Cross-Cultural Communication, Rhetoric and Communication
Publications
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Nominalization in Asian languages. with Foong Ha Yap & Janick Wrona. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011.
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A descriptive grammar of two Magar dialects of Nepal: Tanahu and Syangja Ann Arbor MI: UMI, 2011.
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‘Evidentiality in Tibeto Burman Languages’ Invited Keynote Speaker. International Conference on Epistemicity, Evidentiality and Attitude in Asian Languages: Discourse, Diachronic and Typological Perspectives. The Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, September 2, 2012.
