Welcome to my website. I am a professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Faculty of Letters, Translation and Communication, and a member of iiTSE and of the Philixte Research Center. With my colleague Jade de Cock, we have created two research teams dECOLOnial Belgium and Narrative Pros/Pers-pectives.
I am also responsible of the Philology volume of the centenary Belgian journal RBPH.
Previously, I was a Research Associate with the FNRS. An article about my training course and research interests was published in the FNRSNews 102, on page 31.
The common denominator of my past and current research is the literary writings of events, i.e.: literary transcriptions of historical events and situations (WWII, Belgian colonization) as well as transformations, through the process of writing, of seemingly insignificant phenomena into events. More recently, the post- and decolonial perspectives that I have addressed in my courses have led me to the necessity to “hold together” Ecology, Decolonial studies, and Literature and the Arts.
Fields of research: 20th and 21st-century Literature (novel and poetry) in French
Disciplines: Poetics, Stylistics, Hermeneutics, Postcolonial and Decolonial studies, Literature and History.
For more details on my research and teaching activities, please see my CV.