Sarah Josephine Adams is a PhD candidate in Dutch Literature at Ghent University (2016-2020). Her FWO funded project Slavery on Scene. Representations of Slavery on the Dutch Stage of 1800 examines performances of slavery in the Netherlands in an age of significant ideological and political change (1770s-1830s). Read more… 

Maaheen Ahmed is a Flemish Research Council (FWO) postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University’s English Department. She has held fellowships at the Université catholique de Louvain and Jacobs University Bremen, where she obtained her PhD. Read more…

Berber Bevernage is Assistant Professor of philosophy and theory of history in the Department of History at Ghent University. Much of his current research focuses on the uses of history and memory after violent conflict Read more…

After having finished her studies in History and African Studies, Inge Brinkman received a Ph.D. degree from Leiden University (The Netherlands) in 1996 with a thesis on oral and written literature, identity and gender in Central Kenya. Read more…

Sara Buekens is currently working on a PhD in French literature at the University of Ghent. With Pierre Schoentjes as supervisor, she studies post-war and 21st century French literature from an ecopoetic perspective. “L’écopoétique” Read more…

Gert Buelens is a professor of English at Ghent University. He holds degrees from the University of Sussex (DPhil, 1990) and Ghent (Lic. English and German, 1984; Teacher training, 1985), and was a visiting scholar at Harvard n 1996-1997.  Read more…

Stef Craps is a professor of English literature at Ghent University, where he directs the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative. He is the author of Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) Read more…

Sophie Decroupet is a PhD fellow in the Department of Translation, Interpretation, and Communication at Ghent University. Her research focuses on translation and museums and combines a broad metaphorical perspective of “the museum as translation” Read more…

Maude Bass-Krueger received her BA and MA in History from Wesleyan University and Sciences-Po Paris, respectively, and her PhD in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from the Bard Graduate Center in New York City (2016). Read more…

Mara Josi is a FWO Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Ghent. Since her PhD at the University of Cambridge (2017-2021), she has been dealing with the investigation of national, supranational, and transnational recollections of historical events in Italian 20th and 21st-century literature and culture. Read more…

Maarten Geeroms obtained an MA in Spanish Literature and Linguistics from Ghent University (2016), where he is currently reading for a PhD in Hispanic literature. His research focuses on literary memory formation Read more… 

Zoë Ghyselinck is a Postdoctoral Researcher (BOF, Ghent University) and Senior Humboldt Fellow (University of Regensburg, Germany) working on modern and contemporary representations of communicating with the dead, mediation Read more…

Brigitte Herremans studied Eastern Languages and Cultures (Arabic and Biblical Hebrew) at Ghent University and International Relations at  Read more…

Jelena Juresa is a visual artist working primarily with photography and video. Her visual research is based on testing the representational limits of the “image”. Her artistic sensitivity directs the focus  Read more…

Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand is a postdoctoral research fellow affiliated with the Department of Literary Studies. She holds degrees from the University of Montreal (PhD in French Literatures, 2010) and the University of Quebec  Read more…

Ilse Logie has been teaching modern Latin-American literature at Ghent University since October 2005. She obtained her PhD, with a dissertation titled La omnipresencia de la mímesis en la obra de Manuel Puig, at the University of Antwerp Read more…

Mahlu Mertens, originally from the Netherlands, is a PhD candidate at Ghent University. She holds degrees from the Theatre Academy Maastricht (B.A. Drama Director and B.A. Drama Teacher) and Ghent University (B.A. in Linguistics and Read more…

Eline Mestdagh is a historian and PhD researcher (FWO, 2017-2023) at the Department of History at Ghent University. Among her interests are the recent manifestations of memory activism in the Netherlands and in Belgium. Read more…

Kristiaan Versluys is a full professor of American literature and culture at Ghent University and the founding director of the Ghent Urban Studies Team (GUST). He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 1979. Read more…

Guido Bartolini is a FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, where he works on the cultural memory of Fascism in Italian literature and the idea of responsibility for the past. Dr Bartolini is a scholar of cultural memory studies interested in the legacy of dictatorships and World War II Read more…

Marie Schoups obtained her Master’s degree in English & Spanish Literature and Linguistics at the University of Antwerp (2019) and an Advanced Master’s degree in Literary Studies at KU Leuven (2020). Currently, she is working on a PhD in Hispanic literature at Ghent University Read more… 

Désirée Schyns is a professor (“docent”) in translation studies and translation (French-Dutch) at Ghent University. Before taking up her current post she worked as a translator of literature and as a literary critic in the Netherlands. Read more…

Anneleen Spiessens is a postdoctoral assistant at Ghent University and is affiliated with the Department of Translation, Interpreting, and Communication. She holds degrees from Ghent University (PhD) and KU Leuven  Read more…

Christel Stalpaert (°1971) is a Professor of Theatre, Performance and Media Studies at Ghent University and co-director of the research unit S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts and Media). Her main field of study is performing Read more…

Yves T’Sjoen (°1966) is an associate professor in the Department of Dutch Literature and Literary Theory at Ghent University. He specializes in the study of interbellum literature in Flanders and the Netherlands, and also does research Read more…

Eva Van Hoey is a PhD researcher in Spanish Literature at Ghent University (2020-2024). She obtained a MA in Modern Comparative Literature at Ghent University and an inter-university Advanced MA in Literary Studies. Read more…

Tine Vekemans is a postdoctoral fellow at the department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University (2019-2023). Her FWO funded project Remember Africa? The effects of twice-migration on the religious and cultural lives of British ‘East-African’ Jains Read more…

 Annelies Verdoolaege (°1975) obtained MA degrees in Germanic Languages and in African Languages and Cultures from Ghent University, and an MA degree in Africana Studies from the State University of New York at Albany. Read more…

Jorn Verschuere is a PhD candidate (FWO) in Political Sciences at Ghent University (2022-2026). He holds Master’s degrees from Ghent University (History, 2017; Conflict and Development Studies, 2021) and an Advanced Bachelor Degree from UC Leuven-Limburg (International Cooperation: North-South Relations, 2017). His PhD project Cross-generational resistance to autocracy in Nicaragua focuses Read more…

Paride Stortini is a postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University, which he joined after completing a PhD in history of religions at the University of Chicago and a JSPS fellowship at Tokyo University. The project he is developing at Ghent is titled Building Buddhist Heritage in Postwar Japan: The Silk Road between History and Memory at Yakushiji Temple.  Read more…