Prof. Dr. Burkhard Niederhoff
- 2019-2021: Dean of the Faculty of Philology
- 2017-2019: Vice Dean of the Faculty of Philology
- 2011-12: Visiting Professor at Central Michigan University (Mt. Pleasant, MI)
- 2001-03: Lecturer at the English Department of the University of the Saarland
- 2003- : Professor of English Literature at Bochum University
- 2007- : Co-editor of Connotations
- 1999: Habilitation in English Philology at Bonn University
- 1997-98 & 2000: Humboldt fellow at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver
- 1992: PhD at Bonn University (English, German, Comparative Literature)
- 1989-99: Research assistant and junior lecturer at Bonn University
- 1988-89: Visiting graduate student at the University of Wisconsin/Madison
- 1988: Magister at Bonn University (English, German, Comparative Literature)
- 1984-85: Visiting student at the University of Southampton
- 1983-88: Student at Bonn University
- 1962: Born in Plettenberg
- Married to Marie Anne Niederhoff
- Father of Lioba, Pia and Jakob