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Jan Ceuppens (Director)

Jan Ceuppens is assistant professor at KU Leuven, where he teaches German literature, translation, and interpreting. His research interests include modern and contemporary German literature, translation and reception studies. He has published a monograph on W.G. Sebald (Vorbildhafte Trauer. W.G. Sebalds Die Ausgewanderten und die Rhetorik der Restitution (Eggingen: Isele 2010)) as well as articles on Kafka and Hölderlin and on the interaction between Dutch and German literatures in the 19th and early 20th century. He has translated texts by Mariča Bodrožič, Silke Scheuermann, Thomas Meinecke and Kathrin Röggla.

Elke Brems is associate professor (‘hoofddocent’) at the Faculty of Arts KU Leuven. She is the head of the Research Unit of Translation Studies at KU Leuven. Her research interests include Dutch literature, Reception Studies and Translation Studies. She has published on contemporary Dutch poetry, literature and poetics during the interwar period, the relation between Dutch culture and other cultures, cultural identity and literature. She is a member of the Board of CETRA (Centre for Translation Studies). She is also a member of the editorial boards of Zacht Lawijd and of Poeziekrant.

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Rosanne Ceuppens

Rosanne Ceuppens has graduated with a Master’s degree of Literature and Linguistics (Dutch, English) in 2014 and Master of German Literature in 2015 at the VUB and Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf. After having completed a teacher training in linguistics and literary studies, she worked as a teacher at ILT KU Leuven before joining the CERES team. Rosanne is currently working on a Ph.D project on the reception of Heinrich Böll’s novels during the 20th century in the Netherlands and Flanders. Her research entails a textual analysis of Dutch translations and comes to terms with how these translations are received in the target culture. Focusing on the socio-cultural and textual identity of Böll’s translations will not only provide insight into the Flemish and Dutch society but will also shed light on the literary expression of Böll’s works beyond national and spatial boundaries. This project is supervised by Jan Ceuppens and Elke Brems.

Ernest De Clerck

Ernest De Clerck (1993) is a doctor of English Literature. His PhD-project (2017-2021) was called ‘The Reception and Translation of Foreign Literatures in British Romantic Magazines’ and was supervised by Tom Toremans (KU Leuven) and Frederik Van Dam (Radboud University). De Clerck’s research domains are periodical studies, translation studies, and Romanticism. His work focalises on literary magazines of the 1810s and the 1820s, and more particularly on the instances of cultural transfer in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, the London Magazine, the New Monthly Magazine, and the Liberal. By combining a quantitative and qualitative reading of a neglected corpus his research attempts to recalibrate conceptions of nineteenth-century British literature from mostly insular or self-sufficient, to a more accurate image of a cross-cultural complex which places cultural transfer at the heart of a European Romanticism.

Melanie Hacke

Melanie Hacke graduated as Master of Western Literature (English and Latin) at the University of Leuven in 2015, and as Master in Victorian Studies at the University of Exeter in 2016. Her Ph.D project ‘The Reception and Translation of Foreign Cultures in British Romantic Periodicals’ is supervised by Professor Tom Toremans (KU Leuven Campus Brussels) and Professor Tom Mole (University of Edinburgh). Responding to the relative neglect of the study of translation in Romantic (periodical) scholarship, her project analyses how the Edinburgh Review, the Quarterly Review, and the Westminster Review engage with other cultures and literatures. Through a critical comparative analysis of transfer and translation, the project investigates how the periodicals’ editorial practices reflect their ideological positions in the British literary marketplace.

Ellen Lambrechts

Ellen Lambrechts has obtained a Master’s degree in Spanish and French literature and linguistics at the University of Leuven, and studied Hispanic philology at the University of Seville. In October 2016 she started a PhD project under the supervision of Prof. dr. Erwin Snauwaert (supervisor) and Prof. dr. Nadia Lie (co-supervisor): ‘the translation and reception of the contemporary Peruvian fantastic narrative into French, Anglo-American, and Brazilian literary systems’. In particular, the project analyses how the manipulations of narrative enunciation that are characteristic of the so-called “fantástico de lenguaje” are reproduced in the different target languages, focusing not only on the translational shifts, but also on its aesthetical and ideological consequences in a transnational context.

Pieter Boulogne

Pieter Boulogne (1982), PhD in Slavonic Studies, is an assistant professor of Russian literature at KU Leuven and a visiting professor of Slavonic Studies at Ghent University. Since 2017, he is a board member of the KU Leuven Centre for Translation Studies (CETRA). His main research interests lie at the crossroads of history of Russian literature, descriptive translation studies and imagology. In 2011, he published a slightly overweight dissertation in Dutch on the early Dutch critical reception and (mostly indirect) translations of Dostoevsky, under the title Het temmen van de Scyth. De vroege Nederlandse receptie van F.M. Dostoevskij (Taming the Scythian. The Early Dutch Reception of F.M. Dostoevsky). More recently, he contributed to CODL: an international network studying the circulation of Dutch literature. Once in a blue moon, he indulges in literary translation from Russian and literary criticism.

Affiliation: KU Leuven
Contact: pieter.boulogne@kuleuven.be
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Núria Codina

Núria Codina Solà is a postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven and the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project “Making Migrant Voices Heard through Literature: How Collaboration Is Changing the Cultural Field” (COLLAB, 2023-2028), which looks at a wide array of collaborative practices across Europe that create spaces for literary participation of migrants. Her previous research projects centered around the role of multilingualism and refugee writing in contemporary world literature and were funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Núria received a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Tübingen and is the author of Verflochtene Welten. Transkulturalität in den Werken von Najat El Hachmi, Pius Alibek, Emine Sevgi Özdamar und Feridun Zaimoglu (2018). She has also published in journals such as Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Research in African Literatures, and Textual Practice. Her research interests include literary multilingualism, transnational literature, collaborative writing, postcolonialism, translation theory, cultural studies and interdisciplinary approaches to migration. 

Affiliation: KU Leuven
Contact: nuria.codina@kuleuven.be
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Christophe is a lecturer at KU Leuven (Brussels campus) and senior lecturer at University College London. His main research interests and activities at present have two traits. The first research theme concerns the use of language and translation technology. The use of technology is seen as a way of making information more accessible. The second research theme concerns a much more culture-related orientation, focusing on transnational history and the impact of (temporary) exile on national identity, in particular Belgian refugees in Britain 1914-1919. Together with Julian Walker Christophe manages the Languages and the First World War project. Christophe has (had) multiple involvements with the European Commission and televised media (BBC and VRT).

Affiliation: KU Leuven, University College London
Contact: christophe.declercq@kuleuven.be
Twitter: @chrisdec71 @belgianrefugees @languagesFWW
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Brecht de Groote

Brecht de Groote is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation, Interpretation, and Communication of the University of Ghent. His research focuses on the Romantic period, extending into the eighteenth century and Victorian period; in particular, he is interested in the legacies of late-Romantic writing. Combining methods at the intersection of translation studies, literary theory, and media studies, he investigates the ways in which British culture is shaped by ideas and practices of translation and mediation, particularly as it engages with France and Germany. Brecht previously held (post)doctoral positions at the Universities of Ghent, Leuven, and Edinburgh. He has a monograph with Edinburgh University Press, Thomas De Quincey: Romanticism in Translation, and is currently working on a project on Romantic translation and misinformation.

Ben De Witte

Ben De Witte (PhD Rutgers University) teaches comparative criticism, world literature studies and translation at KU Leuven campus Leuven. His research interest are in literary translation and in comparative approaches to the study of modernism, in particular in the area of drama and performance, and gender and sexuality. Ben has published research in Modern Drama, Cahier voor Literatuurwetenschap, Theatre Research International, and Vooys, and has written book and performance reviews for TTR, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, and Theatre Journal. He recently co-translated (with João Nemi Neto) João Silvério Trevisan’s novel Em nome do desejo for Columbia University’s Sundial House: Latin American and Iberian Literature in Translation.

Affiliation: KU Leuven
Contact: ben.dewitte@kuleuven.be
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Tamara Gosta

Reine Meylaerts

Reine Meylaerts is Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies at KU Leuven where she teaches courses on European Literature, Comparative Literature and Translation and Plurilingualism in Literature. She was director of CETRA (Centre for Translation Studies) from 2006-2014 and is now board member. Her current research interests concern translation policy, intercultural mediation and transfer in multilingual cultures, past and present. She is the author of numerous articles and chapters on these topics. She is also review editor of Target. International Journal of Translation Studies. She was coordinator of 2011-2014: FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN: TIME: Translation Research Training: An integrated and intersectoral model for Europe. She is former Secretary General (2004-2007) of the European Society for Translation Studies (EST) and Chair of the Doctoral Studies Committee of EST.

Affiliation: KU Leuven
Contact: reine.meylaerts@kuleuven.be
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Francis Mus

Francis Mus is Assistant Professor of French and Translation Studies in the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication at the University of Ghent. His research interests include literary translation studies (Francophone literatures; literature(s) in Belgium; translation from French to Dutch); translation and music (Leonard Cohen, popular music, classical music); translation and multimodality; translation and visibility (ethics of translation); literary multilingualism in/and translation.

His monograph The Demons of Leonard Cohen (2020) was awarded the Literary Prize of the Province of East Flanders and was a finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. He also serves on the editorial board of JoSTrans and the scientific committee of the Book Series ‘Truchements’ (University of Liège).

Affiliation: UGent
Contact: francis.mus@ugent.be
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Erwin Snauwaert

Beatrijs Vanacker

Beatrijs Vanacker is an FWO postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven, where she teaches courses on French and comparative literature and literary translation. Her research interests include early modern prose fiction (focus on 18^th century), mostly from a transcultural perspective, pseudotranslation and network analysis of (women) writers’ correspondences. She has been a visiting fellow at LMU München, Augsburg University and McGill University and has published on literary translation, (transcultural) poetics of the novel and women writers’ networks. She is a member of the executive board of the Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and assistant editor of the online journal Interférences littéraires / Literaire interferenties.

Affiliation: KU Leuven
Contact: beatrijs.vanacker@kuleuven.be
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Jan Van Coillie

Emeritus Professor.