Anne Lequy

Lequy was born in Montereau-Fault-Yonne (France) in 1971. Following studies in German as a Foreign Language as well as English Language and Literature, she obtained a joint Franco-German doctorate from Paul Verlaine University – Metz (now University of Lorraine) and Leipzig University in 1999 (cotutelle).^[3]

Lequy has worked as a sworn interpreter and translator (French A, German B, English C) for German federal agencies and state authorities since 1998. She also worked as a Lecturer for French at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (1998–2004) and the University of Duisburg-Essen (2004–2006).^[1]

Since 2006 she has been Professor for Specialised Communication – French (technical translation) at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences with a research focus on Computer Supported Translation Teaching and Corpus Analysis.^[1] She was the Programme Manager of the International Master in "Legal Translation and Interpreting" of the Franco-German University until April 2010.

As prorector (or vice-rector) of Studies and Teaching from 2010 to 2014 she was responsible for the (re)accreditation, new study programmes, quality of teaching and internationalisation.^[4] During this time she was the Project Manager of the Quality Pact for Teaching.^[5]

In 2014 Lequy became the first woman appointed to the position of Rector at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences.^[6] She remained the only female Rector in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt^[7] until 2022. She was re-elected in February 2018.^[8]

From 2017^[9] to 2022 she was project manager of the German Jordanian University (GJU) in Germany.^[10] She became a member of the Board of the European University Association in spring 2021.^[11]

Lequy is married and has two children.^[12] She lives with her family in Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

• Organisationsentwicklung in der Hochschullehre. Praxisberichte zum Qualitätspakt Lehre Projekt der Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal (Organisational development in higher education teaching. Practical reports on the Quality Pact for Teaching project at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences) (Ed.), With Marianne Merkt, Michael A. Herzog, Yongjian Ding und Christa Wetzel, Bielefeld, W. Bertelsmann, 2020, ISBN 978-3-7639-6034-7^[13][14]
• "unbehaust"? Die Thematik des Topos in Werken wenig(er) bekannter DDR-Autorinnen der siebziger und achtziger Jahre. Eine feministische Untersuchung ("unhoused"? The theme of the topos in works by little (or less) known female GDR authors of the 1970s and 1980s. A feminist study) Frankfurt am Main et al., Peter Lang, 2000, 645 p., ISBN 3-631-37020-2^[15]
• Erstellung eines zentralen professoralen Personalentwicklungs- und Personalgewinnungskonzeptes der Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal (Development of a central conceptual framework for the development and recruitment of professorial staff): FH-Personal-Konzept-Projekt Z-PEGK-h2 (2019–2020). Abschlussbericht (Teil I, Vorhabenbeschreibung, und Teil II, Ergebnisdarstellung).^[16]
• On Teaching Constitutions at German Higher Education Institutions – a Comparative Exploratory Study of a Selection of Strategic Conceptual Frameworks of Action. With Peter-Georg Albrecht, in: AOHER Application-oriented Higher Education Research. Ed. by Hefei University Anhui China. Nr. 4/20. Jg. 5. (in prep.)^[17]
• Qualität im Transfer (Quality of transfer) With Peter-Georg Albrecht, in: Gerda Hagenauer, Doris Ittner, Roman Suter, Thomas Tribelhorn (Ed.): ZFHE, Zeitschrift für Hochschulentwicklung, Evidenzorientierte Qualitätsentwicklung in der Hochschullehre: Chancen, Herausforderungen und Grenzen. Nr.1, 2018, Jg. 13, p. 299–316^[18]
• Iconicity as a Doorway to a New Space: Lesser Known East German Women Writers in the Seventies and Eighties, In: gender forum, Gender & Language, Nr. 20, 2008, p. 3–11^[19]
• Gestohlene Zeit. In: Czerney S., Eckert L., Martin S. (eds) Mutterschaft und Wissenschaft. Springer, Wiesbaden. Die (Un-) Vereinbarkeit von Mutterbild und wissenschaftlicher Tätigkeit. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien, 2020, p. 189–202.^[20]