Sofia Rüdiger

Prof. Dr. Sofia Rüdiger currently holds a Visiting Professorship at the Institute of English Philology, Freie Universität Berlin, focusing on World Englishes, Computer-Mediated Communication, and Language and Food studies. She co-organizes the BæFoLa (Bayreuth-Berlin Food and Language) lecture series. Her academic journey includes a Habilitation (2020) and 6 years as an Akademische Rätin a. Z. (2018-2024) at Universität Bayreuth.

Research Areas include:

• World Englishes (particularly Asian Englishes, Korean English, English as Lingua Franca)
• Pragmatics (complaints, persuasive language, historical pragmatics)
• Computer-Mediated Communication (YouTube discourse, social media corpora)
• Corpus Linguistics (spoken corpora, non-canonical syntax)
• Language & Food (digital ethnography, BæFoLa project)

Her publication trends show sustained engagement with digital communication (YouTube, social media), English variation (Korean, Taiwanese), and pragmatic markers (like, expressives). She serves on editorial boards and has received DFG funding (RU 2369/3-1) for digital food discourse research.