Jana GOYVAERTS

Bio

Jana Goyvaerts is a Guest Professor at the Department of Communication Studies of the VUB and at the Political Science department at the ULB. She obtained a PhD in Media and Communication Studies in 2023 with a thesis titled “We Need To Talk About How We Talk About Populism: the signifier populism and discursive struggles about democracy in the Belgian press”.

She currently teaches courses about research methodologies, both at the VUB and ULB, and on media history. Her research interests include meaning-making practices and discourse, journalism, democracy and populism.

CV

• Since 2023: Guest professor in political science, ULB
• Since 2023: Guest professor in communication science, VUB
• 2017 – 2023: Teaching assistant and doctoral researcher, VUB

Areas of research

• Meaning-making practices and discourse
• Journalism
• Democracy, populism and the far right
• Digital methods and big data analysis

Teaching

POLI-D463 : Analyse des discours politiques et médiatiques
 

Research

Far Right Fictions: the meanings of audiovisual fiction among ‘emerging citizens’ with far right sympathies (VUB, ECHO Research Group)

Publications

Goyvaerts, J., Brown, K., Mondon, A., Glynos, J., & De Cleen, B. (2024). The populist hype. In Elgar Research Handbook on Populism (pp. 527-539). Edward Elgar.

De Cleen, B., Goyvaerts, J., Carpentier, N., Glynos, J., Stavrakakis, Y., & Tomanic Trivundza, I. (2021). An introduction to the special issue on ‘Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice’. Journal of Language and Politics, 20(1), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20077.dec

Goyvaerts, J., & De Cleen, B. (2020). Media, Anti-Populist Discourse and the Dynamics of the Populism Debate. In B. Krämer, & C. Holtz-Bacha (Eds.), Handbook of Populism and the Media (pp. 83-108). Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft.

VUB Research Portal : https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/jana-goyvaerts