Doctoral project Holly Brown

Doctoral project Maria Ioana Zirra

Doctoral project Mees Kempenaers

Doctoral project River Ramuglia

Doctoral project Toby Smethurst

Fictionalizing the Sixth Mass Extinction: Roots, Exclusions, Biases

Performing the Anthropocene: Climate Change, Embodiment, and Affect in Contemporary Theatre

Doctoral project Brigitte Herremans

Doctoral project Christopher Ryan Hebert

Doctoral project Sofie de Smet

Weird Fiction in a Warming World: A Reading Strategy for the Anthropocene

An Introductory Guide to the Concept of Trauma for Routledge’s New Critical Idiom Series

BOF-ZAP professorship in English and American literature

Climate Impiety: Beyond Post-Apocalyptic Climate Change Fiction

Conjuring Phantoms: A Comparative Study of Trauma in Comics

Contested past: the representation of the past and the construction of cultural memory in the Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian literature of the 1990s

Ecological Mourning as a Creative and Transformative Process

Facing up to the Dictatorial Past: Cultural Memory and the Responsibility for Fascism in post-1990 Italian literature

Genocide Commemoration in the Rwandan Diaspora

Historicizing Post-­‐9/11 American Literature and Criticism through Biopolitics and a Genealogy of Statelessness

Imagining Climate Change: Fiction, Memory, and the Anthropocene

International Francqui Professor 2024 - 2025: professor Ursula Heise

Intersections of Cultural Memory and Human Rights: The Case of Dave Eggers

Literature and Political Imagination: Exploring the Challenges of Global Responsibility and Collective Action

Literature, Nature, and Ecology: An Ecopoetic Approach to Contemporary French, Germanophone, Anglophone, and Italian Narrative Prose

Postcolonial Mnemopoetics: Reading the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Ingrid de Kok, Sherman Alexie, and Bemardine Evaristo Through the Lens of Transnational Memory Studies

The Literature of Hiding as a New Category of Italian Holocaust-Related Literary Production

UGent Human Rights Research Network

Theory of literature, trauma and cultural memory

Trauma beyond the biomedical paradigm: avenues for a subject-oriented and contextual approach of trauma

BOF-ZAP professorship in English and American literature

Trauma, Testimony, and Community in Postcolonial Literature in English (J. M. Coetzee, Caryl Phillips, and Eavan Boland)