Kathleen Gyssels#
| Membership Number: | 6313 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uantwerpen.be/nl/personeel/kathleen-gyssels/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2951-872X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2011 - present Professor of French and Francophone literatures, Diaspora Studies, Comparative studies
- 2001 - 2011) ZAP BOF Antwerp University with a research mandate on Francophone Studies, postcolonial literature and theory
- 1998 - 2011 Professor French language and literature Universiteit Wilrijk and (Faculty of Applied Economics UFSIA
- 1995 - 1998 Postdoctoral fellow FWO Flandres with a research mandate on Caribbean and African American female authors
Fields of Scholarship
- Caribbean fiction and theory
- Comparative literatures of the XXth century
- Postcolonial literatures
- Intertextuality
- Indentured labour in the Caribbean and the Guyanas
- Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)°
- Poetry and painting
- Posthumous publishing
- Totalitarianism, philosemitism and antisemitism, racism and legacies of colonisation
- Jewish migration and Diaspora studies
- Cultural studies
Honours and Awards
- RIMELL - Réseau de Recherches interdisciplinaires sur la muséologie et l'exposition de la littérature et du livre
- poteaumitan founding member website Caribbean Studies, more info: https://www.potomitan.info/atelier/gyssels/index.php
- Member of the Académie des Sciences de l'outre -mer à Bruxelles
- Member of the Board for French Literature and Culture (USouth Wales, Australia)
- Reviewer:
- Literary Research / Recherche littéraire
- Romance Quarterly
- Literator (South Africa)
- Nouvelles Etudes Francophones
- Arcadia International Journal of Literary Culture
- Dalhousie French Studies
- Presses Universitaires Montréal
- Presses Universitaires Artois
- Presses Universitaires Chicago
- Auschwitz Fondation (PRIX FONDATION AUSCHWITZ 2020-2021 Award for "Ruptured Affections" (quote from the members of the jury): "Nous vous remercions vivement pour votre rapport d’expertise, parfaitement détaillé, réalisé dans le cadre de nos Prix, rendant compte du travail de Tom Vanassche, “Ruptured Affections. The Pathos of Anti-Pathos in Shoah Literature and Historiography”, Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Philologischen Fakultät der Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg i. Br., 2019-2020, 329 p."
- ACADEMIE GONCOURT: fifth edition and UA delegate winning the "Goncourt: le choix de la Belgique" for L. P Dalembert with "Milwaukee Blues" (under the guidance of K Gyssels)
