M Knappik

I am an interdisciplinary post-doc researcher in the fields of migration and plurilingualism studies. My research interests include the intersection of race and language, plurilingualism and translanguaging, decolonial theory, epistemic violence, and (linguistic) ethnography. I started working at CeMig as a post-doc researcher in May 2025. From 2018-2025, I worked at the Institute for Educational Research at the University of Wuppertal, with a visiting professorship at the University of Kassel from 2021-2022. From 2011-2018, I worked at the Institute for German Philology at the University of Vienna. I obtained my PhD in 2017 at the University of Vienna with a thesis in writing studies using a subjectivation theoretical and migration pedagogical framework.
Since May 2025, I am a post-doc researcher in the project FuturMig – Production of Futures of Migration at CeMig. In , a research cluster with five sites across Lower Saxonia (Braunschweig, Friedland, Göttingen, Hildesheim, and Osnabrück), we ask how futures of migration are produced – in research and in educational settings –, and how imaginaries of the future shape rationales and decisions in the present. In the Göttingen project, I will carry out ethnographic fieldwork in schools. We analyse how and which futures are imagined, and also, drawing on a decolonial perspective of epistemic violence, we ask which futures are not imagined, and which pasts are not talked about. The results will inform the production of educational resources for in-school and out-of-school learning and the development of a teachers’ certificate.