Teaching

Courses

In 2011-2012 I teach the following courses:

Courses taught in previous years:

  • English Literature III: Modern Period | Literary Witnessing in Cross-Cultural Perspective
  • Seminar English Literature (coordinator)
  • English Literature: Capita Selecta | Trauma Representation in Contemporary Literature and Film
  • English Literature II: Historical Survey: Seminars
  • English Literature I: An Introduction to English Drama, Poetry, and Prose
Supervision

I am keen to supervise PhD and MA dissertations as well as BA papers in the fields of contemporary literature in English (especially British, South African, Caribbean, Indian, and ethnic American fiction); trauma, memory, and Holocaust studies; and postcolonial and transcultural studies.

PhD and postdoctoral research projects currently supervised:

  • Multidirectional Memory and the Retrofitting of Trauma in Pat Barker and W. G. Sebald (Toby Smethurst, BOF, 2011-2015)
  • Intersecting Memories: The Representation of the Holocaust and State Violence in (Post-)Yugoslav Literature (Stijn Vervaet, FWO, 2011-2014)
  • Trauma beyond the Biomedical Paradigm: Towards a Subject-Oriented and Contextual Approach (Gregory Bistoen, BOF, 2011-2015; co-supervisor with Stijn Vanheule)
  • Imagining the Perpetrator in Postcolonial Fiction (Catherine Thewissen, Université Catholique de Louvain, 2011-2017; co-supervisor with Véronique Bragard)
  • Intersections of Cultural Memory and Human Rights: The Case of Dave Eggers (N.N. and Katrien Bollen, FWO, 2012-2015; with Pieter Vermeulen)