Stef Craps Ghent University
- The Cultural Memory Studies Initiative at Ghent University brings together scholars from across the humanities whose research revolves around memory and trauma as mediated through culture.
- New Book: Trauma by Lucy Bond and Stef Craps Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and accessible volume, Lucy Bond and Stef Craps: provide an account of the history of the concept of trauma from the late nineteenth century to the present day examine debates around the term in their historical and cultural.
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Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and accessible volume, Lucy Bond and Stef Craps: - provide an account of the history of the concept of trauma from the late nineteenth century to the present day - examine debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts - trace the origins and growth of.
- Trans poetry, poetics, and publications(2018 -
- Literature, nature and ecology. An ecopoetic approach to contemporary French, germanophone, anglophone, and Italian narrative prose(2018 - 2022)
- Genocide commemoration in the Rwandan diaspora(2018 - 2020)
- Climate impiety. Beyond post-apocalyptic climate change fiction(2017 - 2021)
- Imagining climate change. Fiction, memory, and the anthropocene(2016 - 2020)
- (Fallout) shelter in climate change fiction(2016 - 2020)
- Across generations and genres. The legacy of the holocaust in Dutch-Jewish literature(2015 - 2019)
- Expanding the notion of trauma-narration. An interdisciplinary research into post-narrative modes of trauma recovery in transcultural psychology and theatre studies(2015 - 2019)
- Historicizing post-9/11 American literature and criticism through biopolitics and a genealogy of statelessness(2015 - 2018)
- Postcolonial mnemopoetics. Reading the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Bernardine Evaristo, Wopko Jensma, Ingrid de Kok, and Derek Walcott through the lens of transcultural memory(2014 - 2018)
- Conjuring phantoms. A comparative study of trauma in comics(2014 - 2017)
- Masks, puppets and performative objects as tools of critique, resistance and agency in South Africa. Developing a situational, embodied and postdramatic approach for dealing with the cultural trauma of apartheid(2014 - 2017)
- Conjuguer la Shoah au présent. Représentation et incarnation de la mémoire du génocide juif dans la littérature contemporaine(2012 - 2014)
- Intersections of cultural memory and human rights. The case of Dave Eggers(2012 - 2016)
- Playing with trauma in video games. Interreactivity, empathy, perpetration(2011 - 2015)
- Trauma beyond the biomedical paradigm. Towards a subject-oriented and contextual approach(2011 - 2015)
- Intersecting memories. The representation of the holocaust and state violence in (post-)Yugoslav literature(2011 - 2014)
- Theory of literature, trauma and cultural memory(2008 - 2009)
Sarah Josephine Adams is a PhD candidate in Dutch Literature at Ghent University (2016-2020). Her FWO funded project Slavery on Scene. Representations of Slavery on the Dutch Stage of 1800 examines performances of slavery in the Netherlands in an age of significant ideological and political change (1770s-1830s). Read more…
Maaheen Ahmed is a Flemish Research Council (FWO) postdoctoral fellow at Ghent University’s English Department. She has held fellowships at the Université catholique de Louvain and Jacobs University Bremen, where she obtained her PhD. Read more…
Emma-Lee Amponsah is a PhD researcher in Communication Studies at Ghent University. She holds a BA degree in Religious Studies from VU University Amsterdam and an interuniversity MA degree in Gender and Diversity Studies. Read more…
Berber Bevernageis Assistant Professor of philosophy and theory of history in the Department of History at Ghent University. Much of his current research focuses on the uses of history and memory after violent conflictRead more…
Marieke Breyne holds degrees from Ghent University (Licentiate in Educational Sciences, 2008, and Initial Academic Teacher Training in the Sciences of Pedagogy, 2009) and the University of Antwerp (Advanced Master Read more…
After having finished her studies in History and African Studies, Inge Brinkman received a Ph.D. degree from Leiden University (The Netherlands) in 1996 with a thesis on oral and written literature, identity and gender in Central Kenya. Read more…
Sara Buekens is currently working on a PhD in French literature at the University of Ghent. With Pierre Schoentjes as supervisor, she studies post-war and 21st century French literature from an ecopoetic perspective. “L’écopoétique” Read more…
Gert Buelens is a professor of English at Ghent University. He holds degrees from the University of Sussex (DPhil, 1990) and Ghent (Lic. English and German, 1984; Teacher training, 1985), and was a visiting scholar at Harvard n 1996-1997. Read more…
Stef Craps Ghent University Phd
Stef Craps is a professor of English literature at Ghent University, where he directs the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative. He is the author of Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) Read more…
Sofie de Smet holds a Master’s degree in Psychology (KU Leuven) and a Bachelor’s degree in Performance Studies and Film (Ghent University). In October 2014 she started her interdisciplinary doctoral research into post-narrative modes of trauma Read more…
Maarten Geeroms obtained an MA in Spanish Literature and Linguistics from Ghent University (2016), where he is currently reading for a PhD in Hispanic literature. His research focuses on literary memory formation Read more…
Catherine Gilbert is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Ghent University working on a project entitled ‘Genocide Commemoration in the Rwandan Diaspora’, which investigates Read more…
Brigitte Herremans studied Eastern Languages and Cultures (Arabic and Biblical Hebrew) at Ghent University and International Relations at Read more…
Jelena Juresa is a visual artist working primarily with photography and video. Her visual research is based on testing the representational limits of the “image”. Her artistic sensitivity directs the focus Read more…
Stef Craps Ghent University Masters
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Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand is a postdoctoral research fellow affiliated with the Department of Literary Studies. She holds degrees from the University of Montreal (PhD in French Literatures, 2010) and the University of Quebec Read more…
Ilse Logie has been teaching modern Latin-American literature at Ghent University since October 2005. She obtained her PhD, with a dissertation titled La omnipresencia de la mímesis en la obra deManuel Puig, at the University of Antwerp Read more…
Mahlu Mertens, originally from the Netherlands, is a PhD candidate at Ghent University. She holds degrees from the Theatre Academy Maastricht (B.A. Drama Director and B.A. Drama Teacher) and Ghent University (B.A. in Linguistics and Read more…
Eline Mestdagh is a historian and PhD researcher (FWO, 2017-2023) at the Department of History at Ghent University. Among her interests are the recent manifestations of memory activism in the Netherlands and in Belgium. Read more…
Ida Marie Olsen, originally from Norway, is a PhD student in Literary Studies at Ghent University. She holds a BA degree from the University of Oslo, and an MA degree from the University of Exeter. Read more…
River Ramuglia, originally from Anchorage, Alaska, is a PhD candidate at Ghent University. He holds a B.A. from the University of Oregon and an M.A. from King’s College London. Most recently he taught at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas and Read more…
Désirée Schyns is a professor (“docent”) in translation studies and translation (French-Dutch) at Ghent University. Before taking up her current post she worked as a translator of literature and as a literary critic in the Netherlands. Read more…
Anneleen Spiessens is a postdoctoral assistant at Ghent University and is affiliated with the Department of Translation, Interpreting, and Communication. She holds degrees from Ghent University (PhD) and KU Leuven Read more…
Christel Stalpaert (°1971) is a Professor of Theatre, Performance and Media Studies at Ghent University and co-director of the research unit S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts and Media). Her main field of study is performing Read more…
Yves T’Sjoen (°1966) is an associate professor in the Department of Dutch Literature and Literary Theory at Ghent University. He specializes in the study of interbellum literature in Flanders and the Netherlands, and also does research Read more…
Tine Vekemans is a postdoctoral fellow at the department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University (2019-2023). Her FWO funded project Remember Africa? The effects of twice-migration on the religious and cultural lives of British ‘East-African’ JainsRead more…
Annelies Verdoolaege (°1975) obtained MA degrees in Germanic Languages and in African Languages and Cultures from Ghent University, and an MA degree in Africana Studies from the State University of New York at Albany. Read more…
Kristiaan Versluys is a full professor of American literature and culture at Ghent University and the founding director of the Ghent Urban Studies Team (GUST). He obtained his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 1979. Read more…
Rozemarijn Vervoortis a PhD student in Scandinavian literature at Ghent University. She obtained a BA in Scandinavian Studies and an MA in Literary Studies from the University of Amsterdam, and started her PhD in Ghent in 2014. Read more…