Ruth Wodak (Em. Professor Dr Dr h.c.) was Distinguished Professor for Discourse Studies at Lancaster University in Great Britain, and has remained affiliated with the University of Vienna (Austria). Amongst many international and national prizes and awards, in 1996 she was the first woman and social scientist awarded the Wittgenstein-Prize for excellent scholarship. Her latest monograph is The Politics of Fear. What right-wing populist Discourses mean (Sage Publications 2015) and its German translation. Visit her page for more info.