Falco Pfalzgraf, Lecturer for German Linguistics and Medieval German at Queen Mary, University of London; Convenor for Language and Linguistics at the Centre for Anglo-German Cultural Relations. Dr. Pfalzgraf completed his doctoral thesis on linguistic purism in Germany (University of Manchester, 2003). His main research areas are: the influence of English upon German, Linguistic Purism, and the relationships between politics, language, and culture.