Chair of Language Practices in Media Cultures

Miriam Lind has been Professor for Language Practices in Media Cultures since April 2025. Her research in the field of language, society and mediatization focusses especially on language practices of social categorization and differentiation. Since September 2023, Miriam Lind has been heading the Emmy Noether Group „Posthumanist Linguistics. Communicative Practices between Humans, Animals and Machines“ at the Viadrina“. Previously, she worked for several years as a research assistant in the project „Sprachliche Humandifferenzierung. Grenzziehungen zwischen Mensch und Tier in Diskurs, Lexikon und Grammatik“ of the SFB 1482 „Humandifferenzierung“ (Universität Mainz), where she dealt with the linguistic negotiation of the boundary between humans and non-humans. In the winter semester 2022/2023, she held the position of Professor of Historical Linguistics of German at the University of Mainz. She completed her doctorate in German linguistics in 2018 with a dissertation on the name change of transgender people.