Benjamin De Cleen is the academic coordinator of the Journalism and Media in Europe Master's. His research is situated within critical discourse studies, and has mainly been focused on populist radical right rhetoric, and on the conceptualisation of populism, nationalism and conservatism.
Benjamin is an associate professor at the VUB Communication Studies Department. He is the co-director of the ECHO - Media, Culture & Politics Research Group and the international chair of the Centre for Democracy, Signification and Resistance (DESIRE), an international joint research group that brings together researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, University of Ljubljana, University of Essex, Charles University in Prague, and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Prof. De Cleen is also a fellow of the Center for Media, Data and Society at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary.
Benjamin teaches two courses in the master's programme Journalism and Media in Europe: Journalism, Politics and Ideology and Populist and Radical Political Discourse in Europe.
He supervises master theses about populist, nationalist and radical right discourses, and on the relation between journalism and populism, nationalism and right-wing politics.
His most recent publications can be found on this page.