Affiliation
Assistant Professor (Akademische Rätin a.Z.), Chair of English Linguistics, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Highest degree 
PhD, English Linguistics, 2017, University of Bayreuth

Areas of specialization
Language and food, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, World Englishes, (historical) pragmatics, sociolinguistics

Institutional website
www.english-linguistics1.uni-bayreuth.de/de/team/sofia-ruediger/ 

Personal website
https://sites.google.com/view/sofia-ruediger/projects/mukbang-eating-shows-on-youtube 

Email
sofia.ruediger (at) uni-bayreuth.de

Research interests in the field of Linguistics of Food (LOF)
Identity construction, eating shows, carnivalesque consumption, eating performances

Data and language(s) used in my data
YouTube videos + comments (corpora); English

LOF-related publications

• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2021b. "Digital Food Talk: Blurring Immediacy and Distance in YouTube Eating Shows." Anglistik 32(2): 111-130. https://doi.org/10.33675/ANGL/2021/2/9
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2021a. "Intimate Consumptions: YouTube Eating Shows and the Performance of Informality." Internet Pragmatics: online first. https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00070.rud 
• Rüdiger, Sofia. 2020. "Dinner for One: The Use of Language in Eating Shows on YouTube." In: Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen, eds. Talking about Food: The Social and the Global in Eating Communities. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 145-165. https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.47.08rud
• Mühleisen, Susanne and Sofia Rüdiger. 2020. "Introduction: Food and Talk in Social Life." In: Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen, eds. Talking about Food: The Social and the Global in Eating Communities. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.47.01muh 
• Rüdiger, Sofia and Susanne Mühleisen, eds. 2020. Talking about Food: The Social and the Global in Eating Communities [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society 47]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/impact.47 

Courses I have developed/taught on the Linguistics of Food or related topics

• Talking about Food (advanced seminar; advanced BA + MA students LING; University of Bayreuth); 
• Language and Food (compact course; advanced BA + MA students LING; TU Dresden)

Willingness to be a guest speaker (e.g., in a colleague’s class, at a symposium)
YES

Participation in other projects/special interest groups related to the Linguistics of Food
Founder and organizer of the Bayreuth Food and Language Talks (BaFoLa) (https://www.english-linguistics1.uni-bayreuth.de/en/BaFoLa/)