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Beatrijs Van Acker

Assistant Professor in French, Italian and Spanish Literature at KU Leuven at KU Leuven

About me

Beatrijs Van Acker is an Assistant Professor at KU Leuven, where she directs the research unit French, Italian and Spanish Literature. Her research interests include the history of literary translation, (female) authorship, and the relationship between literature and cultural identity formation. Her doctoral dissertation dealt with cultural transfer strategies in relation to a poetics of the novel in the Enlightenment. Currently, she leads the research project "Shaping Belgian Literature" (1750-1830) and the project "Found through Translation."

She was also a visiting research fellow at LMU (Munich) and Augsburg University in 2013 and at McGill University (Montreal) in 2017. She is co-editor (with Nathalie Kremer) of the series La République des Lettres at Peeters Publishers. Since 2019, she is also a member of the Belgian Young Academy (Jonge Academie).