University of Antwerp

Faculty Member, Literature

Associate Professor of American Literature

Thesis Title: An Impossible Possible Philosophers' Poetry: Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing

About

I studied languages at Ghent University in the 1980s, then a one-year M.A. at Columbia University, and returned to obtain my Ph.D. in Ghent. The topic of my dissertation was Wallace Stevens and I have continued to study this poet ever since, not planning to stop anytime soon. Besides Stevens, I have expertise in urban studies as one of the founding members and a current codirector of the Ghent Urban Studies Team (GUST). My third main area of interest is queer studies, which is partly fed by my work as a queer activist in Belgium. Like everybody else in the academic business, I have published more than I care to reread. I have been a Fulbright lecturer at Fordham University (Fall 2001) and have been on the teaching faculty of NYU's Gallatin School (Summer 2009 & Summer 2010). I have been at the University of Antwerp since 2005 and am the program director of Belgium's only M.A. program in American Studies, jointly organized by the universities of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, and Louvain. Recently, I have also been designated Editor Elect of The Wallace Stevens Journal, starting term in 2011, when the journal will be moving to the Johns Hopkins University Press and become part of Project Muse.

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