Brigitta Busch

Researcher and lecturer at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna

Research interests
biographic approaches in linguistics
linguistic diversity, language and migration
language and human rights
language ideologies, language and power
bodily and emotionally lived experience of language
language regimes in media spaces

Academic career
2018 Elected member of the University Council of the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
since 2016 Vice-president of the Advisory Committee of the Council of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
2012–2015 Berta Karlik Professorship for Applied Linguistics at the University of Vienna
2010–2012 Interim professorship for Applied Linguistics and Discourse Studies at the University of Vienna (chair of Prof. Ruth Wodak)
2009 Appointment as member of the Advisory Committee of the Councils of Europe's Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
2004 Postdoctoral diploma (habilitation) at the University of Vienna, with a thesis on media and the public sphere in multilingual societies (title: Sprachen im Disput. Medien und Öffentlichkeit in mehrsprachigen Gesellschaften)
2003–2010 Senior research fellow at the Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna; regular lectures at the University of Klagenfurt (Faculty for Cultural Sciences)
2001–2012 Regular cooperation with PRAESA, University of Cape Town
1999–2003 Head of the Centre for Intercultural Studies (CIS) at the University of Klagenfurt
1998 PhD, doctoral thesis (summa cum laude) at the University of Klagenfurt on minority media and cultural identity (title: Der virtuelle Dorfplatz. Minderheitenmedien, Gloablisierung und kulturelle Identität)
1996 M.A., magister thesis (summa cum laude) at the University of Klagenfurt on intercultural and bilingual education in Austria

Select publications

Bellardi, Nadia; Brigitta Busch; Jonas Hassemer; Helmut Peissl; Salvatore Scifo (eds.) (2018) Spaces of Inclusion – An explorative study on needs of refugees and migrants in the domain of media communication and responses by community media. Council of Europe report, vol. DGI(2018)01. Strasbourg: Council of Europe.
Busch, Brigitta (2017) Mehrsprachigkeit. 2. Auflage. Wien: Facultas/UTB.
Busch, Brigitta (2017). Expanding the notion of the linguistic repertoire: on the concept of Spracherleben – the lived experience of language. Applied Linguistics 38(3), 340–358.
Busch, Brigitta (2016) Regaining a place from which to speak and to be heard: in search of a response to the “violence of voicelessness”. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics PLUS 46, 317–330.
Busch, Brigitta (2014) Building on heteroglossia and heterogeneity: The experience of a multilingual classroom. In: Adrian Blackledge, Angela Creese (eds.), Heteroglossia as Practice and Pedagogy. New York: Springer, 21–40.
Busch, Brigitta (2012) The linguistic repertoire revisited. In: Tim McNamara (ed.) Special issue: Poststructuralist challenges for applied linguistics. Applied Linguistics 33, 503-523.
Busch, Brigitta (2004) Sprachen im Disput. Medien und Öffentlichkeit in multilingualen Gesellschaften. Klagenfurt/Celovec: Drava.

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