Beate Hampe

Beate Hampe is a Professor of Language and its Structure (English Linguistics) at the Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Erfurt. She serves as Vice President for International Affairs and Founders Service Representative at the university.

• Academic Focus: Cognitive Linguistics, Construction Grammar, Corpus Linguistics, Metaphor Theory, Embodied Cognition, and Discourse Studies.
• Leadership: Associate Editor of Cognitive Semantics (2019-2022), Board Member of the Yearbook of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association (GLCA), and active reviewer for major linguistic journals and funding bodies like the Humboldt Foundation and DFG.

Research Trends: Her recent publications examine the intersection of embodiment, constructional networks, and corpus-driven analyses of syntactic patterns. She investigates multimodal constructions, metaphor dynamics, and quantitative approaches to constructional polysemy.

Advising: Supervised Ph.D. students Matthias Altmann (ongoing), Volodymyr Dekalo (2018), and Susanne Hoppe (2013). She has conducted external reviews for Ph.D. and Habilitation theses at multiple institutions.

Collaborative Work: Engaged in cross-institutional research groups like "Kulturtechniken des Sammelns" and "Medienvertrauen in der digitalen Welt," with collaborations involving Irene Mittelberg, Peter Uhrig, and Mark Turner on multimodal constructions.