Johannes Scherling received his MA (2005) and PhD (2009) in English and American Studies at the University of Graz, Austria and completed extended research stays and field studies in Japan. Since 2011, he has been a lecturer at the Department of English Studies at the University of Graz, Austria, and since 2015 an external lecturer at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His current research focuses on media bias in western mainstream media and on the representation of sources, likelihood and victimhood in social and military conflicts.