Biography
Maria Rieder is an Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of Limerick. Her research is concerned with the critical study of language in situations of social and economic inequality. Her main current project is the 'Tell your own story' project, a media-based research and intervention project which aims to reduce stereotypes and promote diversity in society (see tyos.ie for further details). Further, she is involved in research on media and social protest, issues of immigration and asylum, critical intercultural communication and minority languages and economics. Her published work focuses on social and economic inequality, human rights and minority communities, with a specific focus on the role of language, language perceptions and language ideologies in the production of power and social conflict.Maria is chair of the new inter-faculty research cluster 'Economics in Public Discourse'. She is a member of the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS) and of the Centre for Irish-German Studies.
She lectures in the areas of Critical Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Anthropology, Cultural Theory, Applied Linguistics, and Research Methods.
Research Interests
- the role of language in the production of power and social conflict
- minority languages and communities
- folk linguistics and language ideology
- social and economic inequality
- language and migration
- language and the media
- pragmatics and prosody
- ethnography of communication
- critical discourse analysis
- (critical) intercultural communication
Professional Activities
Employment
- 2018 University of Limerick - Lecturer in Sociolinguistics
- 2017 University of Limerick - Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociolinguistics of (In)equality
- 2016 University of Jyväskylä - Postdoctoral Researcher for the research collegium for language in changing society (RECLAS)
- 2016 University of Limerick - Part-time Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
- 2014 University of Limerick - Part-time Lecturer in German
- 2007 University of Regensburg - Tutor in English Linguistics
Education
- 2015 Trinity College Dublin - PhD
- 2008 University of Regensburg - Master of Arts (Education)
- 2008 University of Regensburg - Bachelor of Arts
- 2008 University of Regensburg - Diploma
- 2008 University of Regensburg - Diploma
Association
- Convener, AILA Research Network 'Folk Linguistics'
- Member, Centre for Applied Language Studies
- Member, Centre for Irish-German Studies
- Member, Linguistic Ethnography Forum
- Member, International Pragmatics Association
- Member, Anthropological Association of Ireland
- Member, Irish Association of Applied Linguistics
Committee
- Athena Swan MLAL Committee,
Research Collaborators
- Andrea Grisold - Joint Publication - Vienna University of Economics & Business -Austria
- Sari Pietikäinen - Joint Publication - University of Jyväskylä -Finland
- Hendrik Theine - Joint Publication - Vienna University of Economics & Business -Austria
- Eugenia Siapera - Joint Publication -Country -University College Dublin, Ireland
- Henry Silke - Joint Publication -UL
- Gisela Holfter - Joint Publication -UL