Biography

Stef Craps is a professor of English literature at Ghent University, where he directs the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative. His research interests lie in twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture, memory and trauma studies, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities, and postcolonial and decolonial theory.

He is the author of Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift: No Short-Cuts to Salvation (Sussex Academic Press, 2005), a co-author of Trauma (Routledge, 2020), and a co-editor of Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies (Berghahn, 2017).

He has also (co-)edited special issues of Collateral, American Imago, Studies in the Novel, and Criticism on decolonizing English literature, art and climate change, ecological grief, climate change fiction, postcolonial trauma novels, and transcultural Holocaust memory. Currently, he is working on a study of ecological mourning as a creative and transformative process.

For more information, visit his personal website at www.stefcraps.com.

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