Prof. Dr. Sofia Rüdiger

New Appointment: As of October 1, 2026, I have been appointed full professor at the University of Greifswald. My new institutional website can be found here: Prof. Dr. Sofia Rüdiger.

Instagram Channel, Language and Food: We ran an Instagram channel for our project on the discursive construction of eating as entertainment. This is currently inactive and serves as an archive for project updates as well as insights from language and food research, food etymologies, and much more. 

Food & Language Lab Lecture Series, Season 11: Season 11 of the Food & Language Lab (previously BæFoLa, the Bayreuth-Berlin Food and Language Talks) features four delicious talks by Todd Allen (Kansai University), Paul Victor Patinadan (Nanyang Technological University), Eva Triebl (University of Vienna), and Ashli Stokes (University of North Carolina at Charlotte). The talks take place via Zoom. All welcome! Visit our website to find out how to join.

New Network, xE+: In September 2025, Jakob Leimgruber and I founded the "Expanding Circle Englishes and Beyond"-Network (aka xE+). The network brings together World Englishes researchers who focus on Expanding Circle contexts (i.e., World Englishes in non-postcolonial contexts) and adopt a corpus-based perspective. Email me if you would like to join!

Hot Off the Press, Bloomsbury: World Englishes and Social Media: Platforms, Variation, and Meta-Discourse (co-edited with Sven Leuckert and Jakob R.E. Leimgruber) has just been published as part of the series Bloomsbury Advances in World Englishes. More information can be found at the Bloomsbury website.

Conference Organization, Digital P(a)lates: Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices took place at Freie Universität Berlin from 26-28 March 2026. 59 participants from all over the world made this conference a full success! More information available here.

Conference Organization, Language and Persuasion 3: Together with Daria Dayter (Tampere University) and Dominika Beneš Kováčová (Masaryk University Brno), I am organizing Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language, which will take place 19-20 November 2026 at Tampere University in Finland. Confirmed keynote speakers are Charlotte Taylor (University of Sussex), Katarina Pettersson (University of Helsinki), and Massimiliano Demata (University of Catania). The call for papers is closed.

Panel Organization, IPrA 2027 (IPC 20): Daria Dayter (Tampere University) and I are organizing a panel on "The Pragmatics of Online Influence: Persuasion and Authority in Online Coaching Discourses" at the next IPrA conference. The call for contributions is open until October 15. 

Upcoming Talks and Events:

• "Publishing in English Studies" (with Irmtraud Huber & Thorsten Merse), February 2026, online workshop for ECRs (via Anglistikverband)

• "Asian Englishes on YouTube: From cooking shows to Uncle Roger", March 2026, World Englishes on the Stage and Screen, Kiel