Professor of Applied Linguistics of Contemporary English 

Britta Schneider has joined the University of Vienna in February 2026. Before that she had been working at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt since 2018. 
Her work focuses on language ideologies, with a particular interest in how languages are discursively and materially constructed, specifically in transnational, multilingual settings and in digital culture. 

She received her PhD from Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and from Macquarie University Sydney, Australia. 

Research Interests 

• Language Ideology Research and the Discursive Construction of Language
• Multilingualism and Linguistic Diversity in Digital Society and AI Cultures
• Language Contact in Anglophone Spaces and Entanglements
• Language, Materiality and Technology - Posthumanist Language Studies
• Language in Transnational Settings - Music, Dance, Literature, Digital Space, Consumption
• Language and Public Space
• Language Policy
• Language and Gender

Memberships

• Mitglied im Rat für Migration
• Honorary Lecturer University College London