Dr. Dr. h.c. Ruth WODAK Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies, Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster
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| 1971-1972 | Research Fellow in the Linguistics and Indo-Germanic Department, University of Vienna |
| 1974 | PhD (Sub Auspiciis Praesidentis Rei Publicae) in Linguistics, University of Vienna |
| 1980 | Habilitation in Applied Linguistics, including Socio- and Psycholinguistics , at the University of Vienna |
| 1975-1983 | Assistant Professor of Linguistics, University of Vienna |
| 1983-1991 | Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics and Psycholinguistics, with emphasis on Discourse Analysis, |
| Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria | |
| 1991 | Offer of a chair at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA as "Full Professor" for Applied Linguistics (not accepted) |
| 1991-2004 | Full Professor of Applied Linguistics, Chair, University of Vienna |
| 1992-1993 | Austrian Chair, Stanford University |
| Since 2000 Co-Director of Austrian National Focal Point, EUMC (since 2007 FRA), Vienna | |
| 1997-2003 | Director of Research Centre "Discourse, Politics, Identity", University of Vienna |
| 1999-2002 | Research Professorship, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna |
| 2003-2005 | Permanent Research Fellow, Collegium Budapest |
| 2005 | Offer of Canadian Research Chair, University of Waterloo (not accepted) |
| 2004-2007 | Chair in Discourse Studies, LAEL, Lancaster University |
| 2008 | Kerstin Hesselgren Chair of the Swedish Parliament |
| Since 2007 Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies, LAEL, Lancaster University |
Mitgliedschaften
| Academia Europaea | |
| British Academy of Social Sciences | |
| Societas Linguistica Europaea | |
| British Association for Applied Linguistics |
Publikationen
| The Discursive Construction of History. Remembering the German Wehrmacht s War of Annihilation (with H. Heer, W. Manoschek, A. Pollak, Palgrave, 2008) | |
| The Discursive Construction of National Identity (with R. de Cillia, M. Reisigl, K. Liebhart, Edinburgh University Press 2009) | |
| The Discourse of Politics in Action. Politics as Usual ( Palgrave 2011 [2nd revised edition]) | |
| Rightwing Populism in Europe: Politics and Discourse (with Majid KhosraviNik and Brigitte Mral, Bloomsbury, 2013) |
Auszeichnungen
| Wittgenstein Prize (for Elite Researchers) 1996 | |
| Honorary Doctorate, Örebro University 2010 | |
| Big Silver Medal for Services to the Austrian Republic, 2011 | |
| Davis Chair for Interdisciplinary Studies, Georgetown University; Washington, DC. 2014 |
