Ruth Wodak is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor at Lancaster University, UK, and the University Vienna, Austria. She has published widely on populism, identity politics and politics of the past, migration and xenophobia, racism, and antisemitism. Recent books in English include The Routledge Handbook on Language and Politics (with Bernhard Forchtner, 2018) and The Politics of Fear: What Right-wing Populist Discourses Mean (2015).