Johannes Scherling

Johannes Scherling is a researcher and lecturer in English Linguistics and British Cultural Studies at the Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Austria. His research and teaching focus is on issues of neocolonialism as well as on critical media studies and propaganda studies. In particular, his interest revolves around the textual and contextual analysis of bias in news reporting of conflicts and crises and on ‘censorship by omission’. Recently, he has also started a collaboration in forensic linguistics focusing on authorship analysis of incriminating texts.