Sebastian Muth

Dr. Sebastian Muth is a Lecturer in Business Discourse at the School of Social Sciences, Lancaster University since 2018. His work merges linguistic anthropology, critical sociolinguistics, and language policy with a focus on the commodification of languages under neoliberalism.

• Current research explores language and mobility in healthcare
• Language ideologies in post-Soviet countries (South Caucasus, Central Asia)
• Linguistic landscapes of politically transforming communities

His 15 most recent publications (2020-2024) analyze:

• Language commodification in medical tourism (Switzerland, Lithuania)
• Neoliberal self-enterprise in language education
• Linguistic landscapes across post-Soviet urban/rural spaces
• Interpreter agency in multilingual healthcare sectors
• Political economy of Russian in global contexts

As a reviewer for journals like Language Policy and Journal of Sociolinguistics, Dr. Muth supervises PhD students Qin Fan (q.fan1@lancaster.ac.uk) and Julie Tay (j.h.tay@lancaster.ac.uk). He contributes to the FACTOR research group and CULCOM network, examining language's role in power dynamics and identity construction.