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Department of Linguistics and English Language Home Undergraduate Masters PhD Other Courses Visitors Lancaster Staff Research News Events Contact ? Back Keywords Discourse analysis, Gender, Gender identities, Memory, Migration and diaspora, Multilingualism, National identities, New media, Non-verbal communication, Organisations, Semiotics, Sociolinguistics, Spoken language corpora Research Areas English Language and Linguistics Professor Ruth Wodak AcSS Distinguished Professor County SouthLancaster UniversityBailriggLancasterUnited KingdomLA1 4YL Email: Email HiddenTel: +44 1524 592437 Affiliations Dynamics of MemoriesCentre for Gender and Womens StudiesCPERC - Cultural Political Economy Research Centre Research in Language, Gender and SexualityCentre for Law and SocietyMigrancy Research Group Profile Publications News Activities PhD Supervision Interests I would be especially interested in supervising PhD candidates working in the following areas: (Critical) Discourse Studies (theories, methodologies)Identity Politics (individual, collective; national, transnational)Language and/in Politics Discrimination, Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Sexism in/via Discourse Commemoration; collective memories politics of the past Profile Ruth is Distinguished Professor and Chair in Discourse Studies at Lancaster University since 2004, having previously held a chair at the University Vienna. During Terms 2 and 3 in 2013/2014, she is teaching at Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.) as the Royden B. Davis, S.J., Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies. She convenes the LIP group (Language, Ideology, and Power) which meets every week during term time, and is also affiliated to CPERC (Cultural Political Economy Research Centre) and DoM (Dynamics of Memory Cluster) at Lancaster University. Current Research Ruths main research agenda focus the development of theoretical approaches in discourse studies (combining ethnography, argumentation theory, rhetoric, and text lingu