Education
M.A. in International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS — 2023-2024
Ph.D. in Italian and Comparative Literature, Columbia University — 2011-2017
M.A. in Italian, Columbia University — 2008-2009
M.A. in Comparative Literature, Inter-University Program, K.U.Leuven — 2007-2008
M.A. in French and Italian Literature and Linguistics, K.U.Leuven — 2005-2007
B.A. in French and Italian Literature and Linguistics, K.U.Leuven — 2003-2005
Work Experience
Associate Lecturer — Lancaster University — Lancaster, U.K. — Nov. 2018 – Jan. 2022
Ph.D. Candidate and Teaching Fellow — Columbia University — New York, N.Y. — Sept. 2011 – May 2017
Curator — Wang Xu, What’s the Weather Like Today? solo exhibition — New York, N.Y. — Sept. 2013 – Mar. 2014
Summer Intern — Tyler Rollins Fine Art — New York, N.Y. — May – Sept. 2013
Book Project Assistant — Nina Burleigh — New York, N.Y. — Nov. 2009 – May 2011
Intern — International Studio and Curatorial Program — Brooklyn, N.Y. — Sept. 2009 – Feb. 2010
Awards and Fellowships
2016-2017 Mellon Humanities International Travel Award, Paris and Beijing
2014 Grant of the Institute for World Literature, Harvard University, Hong Kong
2009-2011 Research Fellowship, Research Foundation Flanders (F.W.O.)
2008-2009 Francqui Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation
2005-2006 Université de Paris, Paris IV - La Sorbonne —Erasmus Exchange Programme
2003 French summer school program at Laval University, Canada awarded by the Quebec government and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
Publications
Book
World Literature After Empire: Rethinking Universality in the Long Cold War (New York and London: Routledge, 2022)
Published Articles
“Locating Lumumba,” Comparative Literature Studies 58.2 (2021): 264-285.
“A World to Win: China, the Afro-Asian Writers’ Bureau and the Reinvention of World Literature,” Critical Asian Studies 51.2 (2019): 144-165.
“Forme cinesi: Gramsci’s Translatability in Italian Third-Worldism,” Estetica: studi e ricerche VII.2 (2017): 211-232.
“Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Bandung Man: The Indian and African Documentaries,” Senses of Cinema 77 (2015): online.
“Gray Mornings of Tolerance: Pasolini’s Calderón and the Living Theatre of New York (1966–69),” Studi pasoliniani 5 (2011): 31-46
“Naissance de l’auteur: Se souvenir de Foucault après 25 ans,” Romaneske 34 (2009): 13-14.
Catalogue Essays
“Environed,” catalogue essay for Wang Xu solo exhibition, What’s the Weather Like Today?, 456 Gallery, New York (2014): 1.
Languages
Dutch, English, French, Italian, Mandarin Chinese
Citizenship
British Citizen, Belgian Citizen