Ernest W. B. Hess–Lüttich is since 1992 Full Professor of German (Language and Literature) at Bern University, Switzerland, and (since 2007) Hon. Professor Extraordinary, Stellenbosch Univ. nr. Cape Town, South Africa; he has also hold positions at the Univ. of London, Bonn, Braunschweig, Berlin Free, and Indiana Bloomington, as well as visiting professorships at the University of LMU Munich, Graz, Fulbright Scholar Univ. of. Wisconsin, Distinguished Max Kade Prof. Indiana Univ., Saarbruecken, FU Berlin, Pro Helvetia Swiss Chair at CUNY Graduate Center, Distinguished Max Kade Prof. Univ. of Florida, DAAD Prof. Minas Gerais Fed. Univ., DAAD Prof. Univ. de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Univ. of Stellenbosch nr. Cape Town, ZA, Jawaharlal Nehru Univ. New Delhi, U Basel, Ege Univ. Izmir, Turkey, Chulalongkorn Univ. Bangkok, Thailand, Hon. Prof. Extraordinary Univ. of Stellenbosch nr. Cape Town, ZA, Hon. Research Prof. Univ. of Melbourne, Australia, and short guest professorships at numerous universities in Europe and Australia, North and South America, North and South Africa, Near East and Far East Asia (e.g. in Madison/WI, Bloomington/IN, Berlin, Dublin, New York/NY, Gainesville/FL, Dresden, Belo Horizonte, Puerto Rico, São Paulo, Oran/Algier, Vienna, Stellenbosch, Basel, New Delhi, Izmir, Bangkok, Åbo/Turku, Cairo, Istanbul, Budapest, Sydney). His research focuses on Dialogue Analysis and Discourse Studies: social, literary, aesthetic, intermedial, intercultural, intra–/subcultural, institutional, public, technical, scientific communication. He is author and editor of some 40 books; (co–)editor of international journals and book series; author of approx. 330 scholarly articles, mainly in refereed journals, handbooks, readers, textbooks; author of approx. 370 review articles, reviews, and reports (in scholarly journals), media contributions (in the press, radio, internet etc.).
