Tom Rankin

Tom Rankin is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, teaching linguistics courses across undergraduate and graduate programs with a focus on linguistic variation, prescription, and grammatical analysis.

His academic background includes a BA, MA, and Doctorate, with the additional qualification of Privatdozent (a post-doctoral habilitation standard in the Austrian academic system).

Research interests center on:

• Sociolinguistics
• Variationist Linguistics
• Language Education
• Grammar
• Language Variation and Change
• Linguistic Prescription

His teaching portfolio demonstrates consistent engagement with core linguistic debates, particularly regarding prescriptive norms versus descriptive variation in English.