Professor Ruth Wodak, Ph.D., Dr. h. c., Dr. Habil. CURRICULUM VITAE ADDRESS: Dept. of Linguistics and Modern English Language Bowland College Lancaster University [email protected] http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/265 PROFESSIONAL CAREER: Since 8.12.2007 Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies, LAEL, Lancaster University 09/2004 – 12/2007 Chair in Discourse Studies, LAEL, Lancaster University March 2005 Offer of Canadian Research Chair, University of Waterloo (not accepted) 10/1999 – 10/2002 Research Professorship, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 03/1997 – 01/2006 Director of Research Centre "Discourse, Politics, Identity", University of Vienna 1.10. 2000 ‐ Co‐Director of Austrian National Focal Point, EUMC (since 2007 FRA), Vienna 1991 ‐ 2004 Full Professor of Applied Linguistics, Chair, University of Vienna 1991 Offer of a chair at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA as "Full Professor" for Applied Linguistics (not accepted) 1983 – 1991 Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics, with emphasis on Discourse Analysis, Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria 1975 – 1983 Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Vienna 1980 Habilitation in ‘Applied Linguistics, including Socio‐ and Psycholinguistics’, at the University of Vienna (Habilitationsschrift: Das Wort in der Gruppe. Linguistische Studien zur therapeutischen Kommunikation). Page 1 of 53 Updated 19/10/2010 1974 PhD (Sub Auspiciis Praesidentis Rei Publicae, in Linguistics, University of Vienna (PhD Thesis: ‚Soziolinguistische Ansätze zu einer Theorie der Verbalisierung: Das Sprachverhalten von Angeklagten bei Gericht’) 1971 – 1972 Research Fellow (Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft) in the Linguistics and Indo‐Germanic Department, University of Vienna 1950 born July 12th, in London, Austrian Citizenship VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS: 2008 Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Chair of the Swedish Parliament, Örebrö University, Sweden 2004 Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK 2002 – 2004 Permanent Fellow at Collegium Budapest, Budapest 1999 Visiting Professor, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.,U.S.A. 1995 Hill Professorship, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A. 1992 – 1993 Austrian Chair, Stanford University, Stanford, CA., U.S.A. 1992 Visiting Professor, FUMS, Uppsala University, Sweden 1982 Rockefeller Foundation Research Fellowship for Residence at the Foundation's Study and Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy, June 1982 ACADEMIC AWARDS: 2010 Honorary Doctorate, University Örebro 2006 Woman’s Prize of the City of Vienna, October 2006 2003 Willy und Helga Verkauf ‐ Verlon ‐ Prize (for antifascist research), June 2003 2001 Scientific‐Prize of the City of Vienna, December 2001 1996 Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize (for Elite Researchers), October 1996 1990 Dr. Hertha Firnberg National Award (For Special Achievement in the Area of Science and Research), April 1990 1989 Pharmig Prize der Österreichischen Ärztekammer für das Projekt "Alltag in der Ambulanz", March 1989 (Prize of the Austrian Medical Society for the research project ‘Everyday life in an out‐patient clinic’) 1980 Kardinal Innitzer Prize (for Habilitation), December 1980 Page 2 of 53 Updated 19/10/2010 1974 Theodor Körner Prize (for PhD Thesis), April 1974 KEY RESEARCH INTERESTS: • Discourse Analysis: Theory and methods in CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis); development of theories of text planning and text comprehension; argumentation theory; qualitative and quantitative methods of text analysis; development of the Discourse‐Historical Approach in CDA (DHA) • Organizational Discourse: Investigation of hospitals, bureaucracies, schools, political and multinational organizations, application of theoretical and empirical research in training seminars for teachers, lawyers, doctors, politicians, bureaucrats, etc. • Sociolinguistics: Sociolinguistic theory; gender‐specific and class‐specific language behavior; language behavior of minority groups; language policies (language conflicts, multi‐lingualism); • Language and/in Politics: Analysis of political discourse; identity politics (national and transnational); intercultural communication; performance of politics; • Prejudice and Discrimination: Stereotypes and prejudices in discourse; linguistic realization of prejudice in public and private discourse (racism, xenophobia, and anti‐Semitism) • Gender Studies: Discursive practices in female socialization; guidelines for non‐discriminatory language use; men and women in conversation; Interaction and communication of women in different private and institutional settings; • Methodologies of qualitative analysis; linguistic fieldwork: Ethnographic approach in CDA PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: • President of the Societas Linguistica Europea (2010/11) • Member of Academia Europaea since 2010 • Member of the Advisory Board (Expertenrat) of the Ministry of Interior, Vienna (BM für Inneres; Handlungsfeld ‘Sprache und Bildung’) (2010 -) • ‘Speaker’ (Chair) of ‘Interdisciplinary Dialog-Forum’, University of Vienna (2008 -) • Chair of Panel for the Humanities and Social Sciences for the EURYI Award, European Science Foundation 2006/2007 • Advisory Board of ACCEPT Project (7th EU Framework) • Advisory Borad of ELDIA Project (7th EU Framework) Page 3 of 53 Updated 19/10/2010 • Member of Advisory Board of Hanadiv Foundation, London (Research on Racism, Xenophobia, and Anti‐Semitism) (2006 ‐) • Member of Advisory Board of Volkswagenstiftung (Research focus on Migration) (2005 ‐) • Member of International Advisory Board of Simon Wiesenthal Institute, Vienna (2007 ‐ 2009) • Member of Advisory Board of Leo Baeck Institute, London (2006 ‐) • Member of Advisory Board of Centre of Austrian Studies, New Orleans (2002 ‐) • University of Vienna/ Austrian Academy of Sciences: Director of Wittgenstein Research Center ‘Discourse, Politics, Identity’ (1997 – 2003) • Austrian Academy of Sciences: Vice‐Chairperson of the Linguistic and Communication Research Commission of the Academy since June 1988. • Corresponding Member of the philosophic‐historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since April 1997 • Co‐Director of the Austrian National Focal Point of the EUMC (European Monitoring Center against Racism, Xenophobia and Anti‐Semitism; renamed 2007 as Fundamental Rights Agency ‐ FRA) (2000 ‐ • Austrian Diplomatic Academy, Courses on Intercultural Communication and Text Comprehension and Text Production, (2000 – 2004) • Advisory Board of MediaDemos. Network on Mediation and the Ethics of Globalisation (Copenhagen Business School, 2004 ‐ 2006) • Vorarlberger Regional Ministry: Courses on Comprehensibility of Legal Texts (2001 – 2003) • University Krems: Courses on Intercultural Communication (2003) • President of the Austrian AILA Section 'Verbal' 1994 – 1998 • President of ‚Wiener Sprachgesellschaft’ 1993 ‐ 1996 • Coordinator of ERASMUS Network 'Discourse Analysis’ 1993 – 1996 (Universities of Amsterdam, Lancaster, London, Linköping, Lisboa, Athens, Madrid) • Member of Advisory Board of Institute of Textbook Research, Vienna, 1987 ‐ • Austrian Federal Ministry for Women's Affairs: Consultancy on gender‐biased language. (‐ 2000) • Federal Republic of Germany, Ministry of Social Services: Consultancy on gender‐biased language. Page 4 of 53 Updated 19/10/2010 • Vice President of IASR (International Association for the Study of Racism) • Member of Advisory Board of Georg‐Eckert‐Institute, Braunschweig (Textbook Research) • Member of Advisory Board of Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Exilforschung (since 2003) MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS: • Societas Linguistica Europea • Qualitative Research Network, ESA • Linguistic Society of America • International Association of Sociology • IFFOTT • Vienna Psychoanalytic Association • Sigmund Freud Society • International Pragmatics Association • Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst • Association of American Applied Linguistics (AAAL) • GAL (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik) • American Association of Anthropology (AAA) • IASR (International Association for the Study of Racism) • AILA • European Association of Sociology (ESA) • BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics) • IGALA (International Gender and Language Association) MEMBER OF ADVISORY BOARD OF JOURNALS: • Journal für Sozialforschung (since 1983) • Language and Education (since 1994) • Wiener Linguistische Gazette (since 1976) • Folia Linguistica (since 1980) • Patterns of Prejudice (since 1993) • Multilingua (since 1993) • Applied Linguistics (1996 ‐ 2002) • Document Design Series (since 1999) • Multilingualism and Linguistics Diversity (since 1999) • Journal of Language, Identity, and Education (since 2000) • Language Policy (since 2000) • Contemporary Austrian Studies (since 2000) • Wiener Hefte zu Migration und Integration (since 2002) • Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (since 2002) • Language in Society (since 2004) • Mots (since 2005) • Qualitative Research Quarterly (since 2004) • Atlantis, Journal of the Spanish Ass. for Anglo‐American Studies (AEDEAN), (since 2005) Page 5 of 53 Updated 19/10/2010 • Eurozine (since 2005) • Discourse & Communication (since 2006) • Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development (since 2006) • Journal of Multicultural Discourses (since 2009) MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARD OF BOOK‐SERIES: • Corpus & Discourse Book Series (since 2002) • Controversies Book Series (since 2002) • Handbook on Language and Education (Kluwer) (new edition) • IMJR Editorial Review Board (since 2006) • Creative