Teaching

Courses

In the current academic year I teach the following courses:

Other courses taught in previous years:

  • English Literature III: Modern Period | Literary Witnessing in Cross-Cultural Perspective (BA3)
  • English Literature: Capita Selecta | Trauma Representation in Contemporary Literature and Film (BA3)
  • English Literature II: Historical Survey: Seminars (BA2)
  • English Literature I: An Introduction to English Drama, Poetry, and Prose (BA1)
Supervision

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

PhD and postdoctoral research projects currently or recently supervised:

  • Playing with Trauma: Interreactivity, Empathy, and Complicity in Video Games (Toby Smethurst, BOF, 2011-2015)
  • Intersecting Memories: The Representation of the Holocaust and State Violence in (Post-)Yugoslav Literature (Dr. 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 Prof. Dr. Stijn Vanheule)
  • Intersections of Cultural Memory and Human Rights: The Case of Dave Eggers (Sean Bex and Dr. Katrien Bollen, FWO, 2012-2016; with Prof. Dr. Pieter Vermeulen)
  • Conjuguer la Shoah au présent. Représentation et incarnation de la mémoire du génocide
    juif dans la littérature contemporaine (Dr. Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand, SSHRC, 2012-2014)
  • Expanding the Notion of Trauma Narration in Applied Theatre: A Post-Narrative and Postdramatic Inquiry into Trauma Reconstruction in Performance in Post-Transition South Africa (Sofie de Smet, NRF-FWO, 2014-2017; co-supervisor with Prof. Dr. Christel Stalpaert and Prof. Dr. Lucia De Haene)
  • Conjuring Phantoms: A Comparative Study of Trauma in Comics (Dr. Maaheen Ahmed, FWO, 2014-2017; with Prof. Dr. Jan Baetens)
  • Postcolonial Mnemonopoetics: Reading Transcultural Memory in the Poetry of Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Bernardine Evaristo, Sherman Alexie, and Ingrid de Kok (Maria Zirra, joint PhD Stockholm University – UGent, 2014-2017; co-supervisor with Prof. Dr. Stefan Helgesson and Prof. Dr. Bo Ekelund)
  • Historicizing Post-9/11 American Literature and Criticism through Biopolitics and a Genealogy of Statelessness (Holly Brown, BOF, 2015-2018)