University of Duisburg-Essen
Humanities
Department of Anglophone Studies
Universitätsstr. 12
45141 Essen

Room: R12 S04 H02
Phone: +49 201 183 3500
E-mail: xandra.knappe@uni-due.de

Office hours in summer term 2025: Thursdays 12.15-13.45

Please consult the course information provided on Moodle and contact the instructor via e-mail to attend an office hour.

Xandra Knappe works as a research assistant and is pursuing a PhD in English Linguistics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Birte Bös.

After moving from Bremen to North Rhine-Westphalia, she studied English and Social Sciences in her Bachelor’s and Master’s programme at the University of Duisburg-Essen, graduating with honours in 2024. Her MA thesis focused on a Critical Discourse Analysis of right-wing populist Members of the European Parliament during the 2024 EU elections on social media platform X. This project laid the foundations of her current PhD research, which centres on political rhetoric, identity construction through language, and populist discourse in multilingual digital environments.

Language and identity (personal/group indices)

Political rhetoric and Populism

Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)

Digital Communication and Social Media Discourse

Morphology and Syntax

Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics

Corpus Linguistics and mixed methods approaches