Curriculum Vitae

Name: Oliver Stegen

Born in Lüneburg, Germany (1968)

Married to: Dorothea Marit Stegen (since 1992)

Children: Tabita Magdalena (born 1996); Miriam Johanna (born 1998); Silas Natanael (born 2001)

Work experience

Sep/03 - present: Linguistic consultant for language projects of SIL International in Northern Tanzania.

Apr/04 + Nov/04: Head teacher at the workshops in grammatical analysis for ten Bantu languages in Mbeya, Tanzania. Duties included developing a curriculum and lectures in Swahili, teaching and supervising workshop participants in analyzing their mother tongues, developing a template for publishing the workshop results in Swahili, and guiding the participants in writing grammar sketches.

Oct/96 - May/06: Linguistic advisor for the Rangi literacy and translation project, Kondoa District, Tanzania. Duties included the description of the Rangi language (phonology, morpho-syntax, lexicography and discourse analysis) and training Tanzanians in linguistic analysis and translation principles.

Oct/00 - Dec/00: Linguistic consultant for the field linguistics course at the training school of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Holzhausen, Germany

Jan/00 - Feb/00: Lecturer in African Tone Languages at the Bantu Symposium, conducted at the BTL Centre in Ruiru, Kenya

Jul/95 - Sep/95: Assistant teacher in phonetics at the training school of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Holzhausen, Germany

Oct/93 – Sep/94: Phonetics research assistant at the Centre for Cognitive Science of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Duties included segmenting of digital speech data and drafting of linguistic technical reports.

Jul/91 - Sep/91: Assistant teacher in phonetics at the training school of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in Holzhausen, Germany

Apr/90 - Jul/91: Assistant librarian at the Phonetics Institute of the Christian-Albrecht-Universität of Kiel, Germany

Education

2003 - present: University of Edinburgh, Scotland, part-time postgraduate programme by research in applied linguistics (to be completed by end of 2010)

2001: Introductory Course in Translation Principles, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Dallas, Texas

1995: graduated from Northumbria Bible College, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK, Certificate in Biblical, Theological and Missiological Studies

1993: graduated from University of Edinburgh, Scotland, M.A. Hons degree in Linguistics