Curriculum
Vitae
Ruth
Wodak, Dr.,
o. Univ.-Prof. Dr., full university professor of Applied Linguistics
at the Institute for Linguistics at the University of Vienna (until
August 2004) and since September 1, 2004, Chair of Discourse Studies,
Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
Member of the Commission of Linguistics and Communications since 1983, and
corresponding member of the philosophical-historical class since April 1987
at the Austrian Academy of Sciences; member of various organisations, such
as BAAL, AAA, AILA, ESA, LSA, SLE, IASR, WPV, Leo Baeck Institute etc. Publisher
of two international journals (Journal of Language and Politics, Critical Discourse
Studies), and two book series (Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and
Culture, Diskursforschung). Guest-professor at Stanford University; Georgetown
University, D.C.; Minneapolis University; Uppsala University; University of
East Anglia.
Co-director of the National Focal Point for Austria of the EUMC; chair of the
Panel of Humanities and Social Sciences of the ESF (EURYI awards).
Various scientific awards (such as the 1996 Wittgenstein Price; 2001 the Science
Award of the City of Vienna).
Research focus on anti-Semitism, xenophobia, racism; communication in the institutional
context; discourse-theories; language and politics; gender studies; identity
politics.
Publications (selection)
Various publications
to her main research areas, such as:
- Disorders of Discourse, Longman 1996.
- with Martin Reisigl: Discourse and Discrimination. Rhetorics of Racism and
Antiracism, London: Routledge 2001.
- with Martin Reisigl: The Semiotics of Racism. Approaches in Critical Discourse
Analysis, Vienna: Passagen Verlag 2001.
- with Martin Reisigl: "“... WENN EINER ARIEL HEISST ...“ Ein
linguistisches Gutachten zur politischen Funktionalisierung antisemitischer
Ressentiments in Österreich“, in: Anton Pelinka & Ruth Wodak
(ed.): "Dreck am Stecken”. Politik der Ausgrenzung, Vienna: Czernin
Verlag 2002, pg. 134-172.
- "Making Meaning-Doing History“, in: S. Quack (ed.): Auf dem Weg
zur Realisierung. Das Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas und der
Ort der Information. Architektur und historisches Konzept, Stuttgart-Munich:
DVA 2002, pg. 227-233.
- with Hannes Heer, Walter Manoschek, Alexander Pollak (ed.): Wie Geschichte
gemacht wird. Zur Konstruktion von Erinnerungen an Wehrmacht und Zweiten Weltkrieg,
Vienna: Czernin Verlag 2003.
- with Jim Martin: Re/reading the Past, Amsterdam: Benjamins 2003.
- "Schlussstrich, Auseinandersetzung oder Kontinuität? Einige diskursanalytische Überlegungen
zum Umgang mit der NS-Vergangenheit“, in: Ilija Dürhammer, Pia Janke
(ed.): Die „österreichische“ nationalsozialistische Ästhetik,
Vienna: Böhlau Verlag 2003, pg. 235-250.
- "Verschlossene Türen. Wie Forschungspolitik gemacht wird – in Österreich
und anderswo“, in: Jüdisches Echo 53/2004, pg. 256-58.
Personal
Homepages
http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/wodak/index.htm
http://www.univie.ac.at/discourse-politics-identity
