Rico Valär

Rico Valär is an associate professor in Romansh Literature and Culture at the Institute of Romance Languages of the University of Zurich. His main research areas are sociolinguistics, language and cultural policy, and comparative approaches to the history and presence of minority Romance languages and Romansh literature. He teaches translation studies and terminology for Romansh. He is vice-president of the public Foundation for Romansh Media (FMR) and worked as a television presenter for an interview program for the Romansh Broadcast Company RTR, where he was responsible for the revision of subtitles. Formerly, he worked as a translator and terminologist for Romansh at the Swiss Federal Chancellery.