Pieter Vanhove is a freelance writer and translator. He is a recent graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies with a Master’s in International Studies and Diplomacy. Pieter also holds a Ph.D. in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in New York. Until 2022, he was an Associate Lecturer at Lancaster University, where he taught on the M.A. in Translation among other topics. He is the author of World Literature After Empire: Rethinking Universality in the Long Cold War (find an interview about the book here).