About the Author

Anja Kellermann was born in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) in 1964. She studied English, Spanish and German Philology at the Universities of Frankfurt/Main, Heidelberg (Germany), and Oviedo (Spain). In 1998 she completed her PhD thesis in English Linguistics at Heidelberg. She has worked in adult education in England, Spain, and Germany. She has been employed both in industry and at university, where she worked as tutor, research assistant and teacher at the English Department of Heidelberg University, and has published articles on phonetics and language attitudes. Since 1997, she has been working for a German sofware company in the field of technical writing. Anja Kellermann currently lives in Heidelberg. She is married and has one son.