Jutta Ransmayr

Ass.-Prof. Jutta Ransmayr currently works in the German department and Centre for teacher education at the University of Vienna, where she works in the field of German language didactics, language variation in the teaching context and corpus linguistics. She studied English and American studies, history and German as a foreign language at the University of Vienna, where she did her PhD in applied linguistics. As well as teaching at Austrian secondary level for more than a decade, she took part in the FWF-funded research project “Austrian German as a language of instruction and education” at the department of linguistics of the University of Vienna from 2012 – 2015. She was part of the ICLTT (Institute of Corpus Linguistics and Text Technology) before joining the ACDH in 2015, where she deals primarily with research and networking activities in the realm of Austrian Standard German, corpus linguistics and corpus data acquisition (e.g. Austrian Media Corpus). She is an Austrian representative in the Council for German Orthography and one of Austria´s delegates in the EFNIL (European Federation of National Institutions for Language).