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Ruth Wodak, AcSS Distinguished Professor of Discourse Studies EXTENDED CURRICULUM VITAE BIO-DATA, CONTACT DETAILS, EDUCATION ............................................................................................ 2 CAREER .................................................................................................................................................... 3 VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS...................................................................................................................... 4 AWARDS .................................................................................................................................................. 5 MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS ..................................................................................................................... 5 KEY RESEARCH INTERESTS ....................................................................................................................... 6 OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES .......................................................................................................... 7 JOURNAL EDITORSHIP ............................................................................................................................. 8 BOOK SERIES EDITORSHIP ....................................................................................................................... 9 MEMBERSHIP IN JOURNAL ADVISORY BOARDS ...................................................................................... 9 MEMBERSHIP IN BOOK SERIES EDITORIAL BOARDS ............................................................................... 9 MEMBERSHIP IN JOURNAL HONORARY BOARDS .................................................................................. 10 MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS .............................................................................. 10 INVITED LECTURES AND SPEECHES (venues since 1972) ...................................................................... 10 RECENT INVITED LECTURES AND SPEECHES (detailed list).................................................................... 13 SYMPOSIUM AND WORKSHOP ORGANISATION (selection) ................................................................. 24 LIST OF PUBLICATIONS .......................................................................................................................... 27 FULL LIST OF RESEARCH GRANTS .......................................................................................................... 60 SELECTED LIST OF SUPERVISED PHD THESES ......................................................................................... 63 1 Born in London, 12 July 1950 BIO-DATA Austrian Citizen Resident in Lancaster, UK, and Vienna, Austria Email: [email protected] CONTACT DETAILS Profile: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/ruth-wodak Correspondence Address: Department of Linguistics and English Language County South Building Lancaster University LA1 4YL Lancaster, United Kingdom EDUCATION Habilitation in Applied Linguistics, including Socio- and Psycholinguistics 1980 University of Vienna (Habilitation Thesis: Language Behavior in Therapy Groups) PhD Linguistics (Sub Auspiciis Praesidentis Rei Publicae) 1974 University of Vienna (Thesis: The Language of Defendants in the Judicial Process) 2 CAREER Member Since 2013 Academy of Social Sciences Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies Since 12/2007 Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK Chair in Discourse Studies 09/2004 – 12/2007 Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK Offer, Canadian Research Chair (not accepted) 03/2005 University of Waterloo, Canada Research Professor 10/1999 – 10/2002 Austrian Academy of Sciences Director 03/1997 – 01/2006 Discourse, Politics, Identity, Wittgenstein Research Centre, University of Vienna, Austria Co-Director Since 10/2000 Austrian National Focal Point, European Agency for Fundamental Rights Professor of Applied Linguistics, Chair 1991 – 2004 University of Vienna, Austria Offer, "Full Professor" for Applied Linguistics, Chair (not accepted) 1991 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, US Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics 1983 – 1991 University of Vienna, Austria Assistant Professor of Linguistics 1975 – 1983 University of Vienna, Austria Research Fellow 1971 – 1972 Department of Linguistics and Indo-Germanic Studies, University of Vienna, Austria 3 VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS Davis Chair for Interdisciplinary Studies 2014 Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA Academic Icon 2012 University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur Distinguished Visiting Professor 2012 Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada Visiting Professor 2011 University of Graz, Austria Kerstin Hesselgren Visiting Chair of the Swedish Parliament 2008 Örebrö University, Sweden Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor 2004 University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK Permanent Fellow 2002 – 2004 Collegium Budapest, Budapest, Hungary Visiting Professor 1999 Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA Hill Professorship 1995 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Austrian Chair 1992 – 1993 Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA Visiting Professor 1992 FUMS, Uppsala University, Sweden Research Fellow 07/1982 Rockefeller Foundation Center, Bellagio, Italy 4 AWARDS Grand Decoration of Honour in Silver for Services to the Republic of 2011 Austria 2010 Honorary Doctorate, Örebro University, Sweden 2006 Women’s Prize of the City of Vienna 2003 Willy and Helga Verkauf-Verlon Award (for antifascist research) 2001 Science Award of the City of Vienna 1996 Ludwig Wittgenstein Award (for research excellence) Dr. Hertha Firnberg National Award (for special achievements in the 1990 area of science and research) Austrian Medical Society Award (for the research project ‘Everyday life 1989 in an out-patient clinic’) 1980 Kardinal Innitzer Prize (for Habilitation thesis) 1974 Theodor Körner Prize (for PhD Thesis) MAJOR RESEARCH GRANTS 2006 – 2011 DYLAN: Language Dynamics and Management of Diversity (PI of Lancaster Team, in cooperation with University of Lausanne) European Union 6 th Framework, Award: €304,435 2006 – 2009 New Discourses in Contemporary China (PI) The Leverhulme Trust Academic Collaboration-International Network, Award: £59,036 2005 – 2007 Asylum Seekers and Refugees in the UK Press (CI, with Paul Baker and Tony McEnery) Economic and Social Research Council, Award: £45,635 2002 – 2005 XENOPHOB: The European Dilemma – Institutional Patterns and Politics 5 of 'Racial' Discrimination (PI of Austrian Team, University of Vienna with Uppsala University) European Union 5 th Framework, Award: €173,856 1997 – 2001 Director of the Discourse, Politics, Identity Research Centre) Wittgenstein Award: €1,300,000 1996 – 1999 Racism at the Top Austrian Ministry of Science and Transport 1994 – 1996 Discursive Construction of Austrian Identity IFK, Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften KEY RESEARCH INTERESTS Theory and methods in CDA (Critical Discourse Analysis); development of theories of text planning and text comprehension; argumentation Discourse Analysis theory; qualitative and quantitative methods of text analysis; development of the Discourse-Historical Approach in CDA (DHA) Investigation of hospitals, bureaucracies, schools, political and multinational organizations, application of theoretical and empirical Organizational Discourse research in training seminars for teachers, lawyers, doctors, politicians, bureaucrats, etc. Sociolinguistic theory; gender specific and class specific language Sociolinguistics behaviour; language behaviour of minority groups; language policies (language conflicts, multilingualism); Analysis of political discourse; identity politics (national and Language and/in Politics transnational); intercultural communication; performance of politics; Stereotypes and prejudices in discourse; linguistic realization of Prejudice and prejudice in public and private discourse (racism, xenophobia, and anti- Discrimination Semitism) Discursive practices in female socialization; guidelines for non- discriminatory language use; men and women in conversation; Gender Studies Interaction and communication of women in different private and institutional settings; Methodologies of qualitative analysis and Ethnographic approach in CDA linguistic fieldwork 6 OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES President 2009 – 2012 Societas Linguistica Europea Member Since 2010 Academia Europaea Chair 2006 – 2007 Panel for the Humanities and Social Sciences, EURYI Award, European Science Foundation Member of Advisory Board 2010 – 2013 ACCEPT and ELDIA Projects (7th EU Framework) Member of Advisory Board Since 2006 Hanadiv Foundation, London (Research on Racism, Xenophobia, and Anti-Semitism) Member of Advisory Board Since 2005 Volkswagenstiftung (Research focus on Migration) Member of International Advisory Board 2007 – 2009 Simon Wiesenthal Institute, Vienna Member of Advisory Board Since 2006 Leo Baeck Institute, London Member of Advisory Board Since 2002 Centre of Austrian Studies, New Orleans Vice-Chairperson Since 1988 Linguistic and Communication Research Commission of the Academy, Austrian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Fellow Since 1997 Philosophic-Historical class of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Consultant on Intercultural Communication, Text Comprehension and 2000 – 2004 Text Production Austrian Diplomatic Academy Member of Advisory Board 2004 – 2006 MediaDemos. 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