Geert Lernout#
Membership Number: | 2430 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
Elected: | 2007 |
Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
Homepage(s): | https://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/personeel/geert-lernout |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 Research professorship at the University of Antwerp
- 2000 Full professor at the University of Antwerp
- 1986 Tenure at the University of Antwerp
- 1985 Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam
- 1985 Language teacher at the Free University of Brussels
- 1984 Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, “James Joyce and Friedrich Hölderlin in Contemporary French Criticism.”
Fields of Scholarship
- Comparative literature
- Modernism
- James Joyce
- Textual scholarship
- History of the book
Honours and Awards
- Prof. Lenout's book James Joyce, Schrijver shortlisted for “Best non-fiction book in the Low Countries” of 1994 by jury of “De Gouden Uil”
- The Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde (Belgian Royal Academy of Dutch language and literature) gives the Joris Eeckhoutprijs for best Belgian study in Dutch of a writer in 1994-1995 on 23 October 1996 to James Joyce Schrijver
- Biannual prize for literary criticism of the Flemish Community, October 1996