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Researcher

Stef Craps

Publications & Research Data

Awards & Distinctions

114 Results

2025

Ecological apologies : reckoning with grief, guilt, and multispecies justice

A1 Journal Article in ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

In memoriam Joanna Macy (1929-2025) : de denker die van hoop een werkwoord maakte

Introduction – climate witnessing : memory, mediation and the more-than-human

Stef CrapsRick CrownshawRebecca Dolgoy

A2 Journal Article in MEMORY STUDIES REVIEW

Roundtable : memory, literature, and 'literary memory studies'

Cathy CaruthStef CrapsMarianne HirschJill JarvisAnn Rigney

Bookchapter in The Palgrave handbook of literary memory studies

Rouw als richting

2024

'Island of no birdsong' : towards an archipelagic poetics of extinction

Bookchapter in Convergences océanes : ces océans qui nous habitent

Climate justice and the literary imagination

Bookchapter in Teaching the literature of climate change

Ecological trauma in contemporary African literature in English

Christopher HebertInge BrinkmanStef Craps

Even voorstellen: Ursula Heise

Article in a magazine

Groene geesten: De humanities en de klimaatcrisis

Article in a magazine

Klimaatrechtvaardigheid en de literaire verbeelding

A4 Journal Article in WIJSGERIG PERSPECTIEF OP MAATSCHAPPIJ EN WETENSCHAP

Literatuur is een krachtig middel om aandacht te vragen voor de ongelijke gevolgen van de klimaatcrisis

Literatuur, mensenrechten en leesgroepen : reflecties over een interdisciplinair impactproject

A2 Journal Article in CAHIER VOOR LITERATUURWETENSCHAP

Lost words and lost worlds : combatting environmental generational amnesia

A2 Journal Article in MEMORY STUDIES REVIEW

Putting the Anthropocene on display : an inspiration guide

Stef CrapsRick CrownshawDeniz Gündoğan İbrişimJenny Wüstenberg

Remembering earth : countering planetary amnesia through the creative arts

Bookchapter in Dynamics, mediation, mobilization : doing memory studies with Ann Rigney

Rouw om de planeet : leven met verlies in het Antropoceen

Article in a magazine

2023

Countering erasure and invisibilisation : the potential of literature to open up the justice imagination in the Syrian context

Brigitte HerremansTine DestrooperStef Craps

Ecological mourning : living with loss in the Anthropocene

Bookchapter in Critical memory studies : new approaches

Guilty grieving in an age of ecocide

A1 Journal Article in PARALLAX

The Mnemonics summer school : reflections on a decade of international collaborative doctoral training in memory studies

A1 Journal Article in MEMORY STUDIES

2022

Fictionalizing the sixth mass extinction : roots, exclusions, biases

Ida Marie OlsenStef Craps

Performing the Anthropocene : climate change, embodiment, and affect in contemporary theatre

Mahlu MertensStef Craps

2021

Klimaatfictie tussen hoop en vrees

A2 Journal Article in HANDELINGEN (KZM)

Memory dynamics in times of crisis : an interview with Sarah Gensburger

Stef CrapsCatherine Gilbert

A1 Journal Article in MEMORY STUDIES

Weird fiction in a warming world : a reading strategy for the Anthropocene

Gry UlsteinMarco CaraccioloStef Craps

2020

Bookchapter in The Routledge companion to literature and trauma

Containment and nuclear memory in contemporary climate change fiction

River RamugliaStef CrapsPieter Vermeulen

Decolonizing English literature

Editorial material

Decolonizing the cli-fi corpus

Mahlu MertensGry Ulstein

A2 Journal Article in COLLATERAL (HASSELT)

Flooded cities in Low Countries fiction : referentiality and indeterminate allegory in Renate Dorrestein’s Weerwater and Roderik Six’s Vloed

Lieven AmeelStef Craps

A2 Journal Article in GREEN LETTERS

Gesprek met Alexander Devriendt : 'Het onmogelijke mogelijk maken'

Stef CrapsMahlu Mertens

Gesprek met Christel Stalpaert : 'De slagkracht van de verbindingsstreepjes'

Stef CrapsMahlu MertensChristel Stalpaert

Gesprek met Moya De Feyter : 'Hoop is gewoon hard werken'

Stef CrapsMahlu Mertens

Gesprek met Nic Balthazar : 'De verzoenbaarheid van kunst en activisme'

Stef CrapsMahlu Mertens

Grief as a doorway to love : an Interview with Chris Jordan

Stef CrapsIda Marie Olsen

Editorial material

Introduction : ecological grief

Editorial material

Traag geweld : kan kunst het klimaat redden? : Gesprekken met Nic Balthazar, Moya De Feyter, Alexander Devriendt en Christel Stalpaert

Stef CrapsMahlu Mertens

Editorial material

2019

Beyond identification in human rights culture : voice of witness’s voices from the storm and Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun

Sean BexStef CrapsPieter Vermeulen

A1 Journal Article in ENGLISH STUDIES

Jeff Nichols's Take Shelter (2011) : Psychic Cli-Fi

Bookchapter in Cli-Fi : a companion

Klimaatfictie in de Lage Landen?

Stef CrapsMahlu Mertens

Article in a magazine

Towards an understanding of drone fiction

Tobi SmethurstStef Craps

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF WAR & CULTURE STUDIES

Tracing transnational memory : from celebration to critique

A4 Journal Article in MÉMOIRES EN JEU

Lucy BondStef Craps

Visual poetic memory : ekphrasis and image-text in Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and Wopko Jensma

Maria Ioana ZirraStef CrapsStefan HelgessonBo. G. Ekelund

2018

Cli-fi, petroculture, and the environmental humanities : an interview with Stephanie LeMenager

A1 Journal Article in STUDIES IN THE NOVEL

Contemporary fiction vs. the challenge of imagining the timescale of climate change

Mahlu MertensStef Craps

A1 Journal Article in STUDIES IN THE NOVEL

De verbeelding van het Antropoceen

A4 Journal Article in AGORA MAGAZINE

Introduction : the rising tide of climate change fiction

Stef CrapsRick Crownshaw

Editorial material

Memory studies and the anthropocene : a roundtable

Stef CrapsRick CrownshawJennifer WenzelRosanne KennedyClaire ColebrookVin Nardizzi

A1 Journal Article in MEMORY STUDIES

Memory studies goes planetary : an interview with Stef Craps

Maria Roca LizarazuRebekah VinceStef Craps

A2 Journal Article in EXCHANGES (COVENTRY)

Samuel Beckett, Eindspel

Bookchapter in Great plays : houden van beroemde toneelstukken

Sick men of late capitalism : immunity and precarity in recent American fiction and performance art

Holly BrownStef Craps

The rising tide of climate change fiction

2017

Climate change and the art of anticipatory memory

A1 Journal Article in PARALLAX

Introduction: memory on the move

Lucy BondStef CrapsPieter Vermeulen

Bookchapter in Memory unbound : tracing the dynamics of memory studies

Memory unbound: tracing the dynamics of memory studies

On not closing the loop: empathy, ethics, and transcultural witnessing

Bookchapter in The postcolonial world

Roundtable : moving memory

Charlotte McIvorEmilie PineStef CrapsAstrid ErllPaula McFetridgeAnn RigneyDominic Thorpe

Editorial material

2016

Dave Eggers and human rights culture

Sean BexStef CrapsPieter Vermeulen

Humanitarianism, Testimony, and the White Savior Industrial Complex: What Is the What Versus Kony 2012

Sean BexStef Craps

A1 Journal Article in CULTURAL CRITIQUE

2015

'In ruil voor zogenaamde vrijheid en gratis spullen laten we toe dat we worden bespied': Interview met Dave Eggers en Mimi Lok

Sean BexStef Craps

Editorial material

An Interview with Dave Eggers and Mimi Lok

Sean BexStef Craps

Decolonizing trauma studies round-table discussion

Stef CrapsBryan CheyetteAlan GibbsSonya AndermahrLarissa Allwork

A2 Journal Article in HUMANITIES

Playing with trauma in video games: interreactivity, empathy, perpetration

Toby SmethurstStef Craps

Playing with trauma: interreactivity, empathy, and complicity in the walking dead video game

Toby SmethurstStef Craps

A1 Journal Article in GAMES AND CULTURE

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

Gregory BistoenStijn VanheuleStef Craps

2014

Badiou's theory of the event and the politics of trauma recovery

Gregory BistoenStijn VanheuleStef Craps

A1 Journal Article in THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY

Beyond eurocentrism: trauma theory in the global age

Bookchapter in The future of trauma theory : contemporary literary and cultural criticism

Holocaust literature: comparative perspectives

Bookchapter in The Bloomsbury companion to holocaust literature

Holocaust memory and the critique of violence in Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish children: a play for Gaza

Bookchapter in The future of testimony : interdisciplinary perspectives on witnessing

Nachträglichkeit: a Freudian perspective on delayed traumatic reactions

Gregory BistoenStijn VanheuleStef Craps

A1 Journal Article in THEORY & PSYCHOLOGY

2013

McSweeney's and the challenges of the marketplace for independent publishing

Katrien BollenStef CrapsPieter Vermeulen

A1 Journal Article in CLCWEB-COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND CULTURE

Phantasms of war and empire in Pat Barker's The ghost road

Toby SmethurstStef Craps

A1 Journal Article in ARIEL-A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE

Postcolonial witnessing: trauma out of bounds

2012

Dispersal and redemption: the future dynamics of memory studies: a roundtable

Pieter VermeulenStef CrapsRichard CrownshawOrtwin de GraefAndreas HuyssenVivian LiskaDavid Miller

A1 Journal Article in MEMORY STUDIES

Jewish/postcolonial diasporas in the work of Caryl Phillips

Bookchapter in Metaphor and diaspora in contemporary writing

Linking legacies of loss: traumatic histories and cross-cultural empathy in Caryl Phillips's higher ground and the nature of blood

Bookchapter in Caryl Phillips : writing in the key of life

2011

Introduction: transcultural negotiations of holocaust memory

Stef CrapsMichael Rothberg

Editorial material

Transcultural negotiations of holocaust memory

Traumatic mirrorings: holocaust and colonial trauma in Michael Chabon's the final solution

Stef CrapsGert Buelens

A1 Journal Article in CRITICISM-A QUARTERLY FOR LITERATURE AND THE ARTS

2010

'Only not beyond love': testimony, subalternity, and the famine in the poetry of Eavan Boland

A1 Journal Article in NEOPHILOLOGUS

Learning to Live with Ghosts: Postcolonial Haunting and Mid-Mourning in David Dabydeen’s "Turner" and Fred D’Aguiar’s Feeding the Ghosts

A1 Journal Article in Callaloo

Wor(l)ds of grief: traumatic memory and literary witnessing in cross-cultural perspective

A1 Journal Article in TEXTUAL PRACTICE

2009

An Interview with Graham Swift

Editorial material

De ware roeping van de schrijver : interview met Graham Swift

Article in a magazine

2008

Introduction: Postcolonial trauma novels (Cathy Caruth)

Stef CrapsGert Buelens

A1 Journal Article in STUDIES IN THE NOVEL

Linking legacies of loss: Traumatic histories and cross-cultural empathy in Caryl Phillips's 'Higher Ground' and The 'Nature of Blood'

A1 Journal Article in STUDIES IN THE NOVEL

Postcolonial trauma novels.

Virginia Woolf: Kew Gardens and The Legacy.

Bookchapter in A companion to the British and Irish short story

2007

Conjuring trauma: The Naudet brothers' 9/11 documentary

A1 Journal Article in CANADIAN REVIEW OF AMERICAN STUDIES

J. M. Coetzee's 'Waiting for the Barbarians' and the ethics of testimony

A1 Journal Article in ENGLISH STUDIES: A JOURNAL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

2006

"Who lets a big question upset his small, safe world"? British postmodern realism and the question of ethics

A1 Journal Article in ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK

How to do things with gender: transgenderism in Virginia Woolf's Orlando.

Bookchapter in Image into identity : constructing and assigning identity in a culture of modernity

Reading Ethically Ever After: Historiographic Metafiction Revisited

Tussen trauma en verbeelding: de documentaire 9/11 van de gebroeders Naudet.

Bookchapter in Stof en as : de neerslag van 11 september in kunst en populaire cultuur

2005

Trauma and ethics in the novels of Graham Swift: no short-cuts to salvation.

2004

Bookchapter in Engelstalige literatuur na 1945. 1 : Proza, de Britse eilanden

Het verschil voorbij: sympathie en ethiek in Graham Swifts Last Orders

A2 Journal Article in JAARBOEK VOOR LITERATUURWETENSCHAP

No short-cuts to salvation: trauma and ethics in the novels of Graham Swift

A4 Journal Article in MEDEDELINGENBLAD VAN DE LEUVENSE GERMANISTENVERENIGING

2003

'All the same underneath'? Alterity and ethics in Graham Swift's 'Last Orders'

A1 Journal Article in CRITIQUE-STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION

'As if history could be circumvented': undying memories in Graham Swift's the sweet shop owner

A4 Journal Article in THE ANACHRONIST

Cathartic Fables, Fabled Catharses: Photography, Fiction and Ethics in Graham Swift's Out of this World

A2 Journal Article in European Journal of English Studies

2002

Braving the mirror: Jean Rhys, Virginia Woolf and the question of autobiography

A4 Journal Article in AGORA (EDMONTON)

2001

Shadows of ethics: Criticism and the just society

2000

Gender performativity in Woolf's Orlando

A2 Journal Article in BELL. BELGIAN ESSAYS ON LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

1999

De onversaagde Hemingway-held

A4 Journal Article in MUZIEK EN WOORD (BRUSSEL)

A4 Journal Article in MUZIEK EN WOORD (BRUSSEL)

1998

A4 Journal Article in NWT. NIEUW WERELDTIJDSCHRIFT

1997

De dromenmeesteres

A4 Journal Article in NWT. NIEUW WERELDTIJDSCHRIFT

Engelse francofilie

A4 Journal Article in NWT. NIEUW WERELDTIJDSCHRIFT

1996

A4 Journal Article in NWT. NIEUW WERELDTIJDSCHRIFT