Martina Vitackova is guest professor at the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University, and a board member of the Ghent Centre for Afrikaans and the Study of South Africa (Belgium). Since 2021 she is a core team member of the Footnotes: Intersectional Strategies in (South) Africa initiative of Zuid-Afrikahuis (Amsterdam). She spent 5 years as a post-doc at the University of Pretoria (South Africa), where she co-founded the Gender Studies research group – GR@UP. Martina is an intersectional feminist scholar, researching the representation of women’s subjectivity in women’s writing in Dutch and Afrikaans. Most recently she focuses at popular romance. Her other research interests are black voices in Dutch and Afrikaans literature, feminist and postcolonial rewriting, and feminist gerontology. She is also a literary translator from Afrikaans to Czech.