Ruth Wodak is Chair of Discourse studies at the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University. She is Director of the research centre ‘Discourse, Politics and Identity’ at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna. Ruth is co-editor of SAGE’s Discourse and Society, editor of Critical Discourse Studies and also editor of the journal of Language and Politics. She edits the book series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture (DAPSAC).