About

I am a PhD candidate in literary studies at KU Leuven and in history at Ghent University. I am a member of the English Literature Research Group in Leuven and of GEMS in Ghent.

My passion for the past brought me to Ghent University to pursue a degree in history. I obtained my master in 2017 with a dissertation on Renaissance alchemy. Although my interest in research was already incited, I decided to follow my heart back to English literature. Opting for a study that allowed me to combine my background as a historian with literary studies, I gained an MA in historical linguistics and literature from that same university in 2020.

An interest in Scotland and Romanticism led me to Leuven, where I am currently working on a joint PhD with Ghent University. In the FWO-funded project, History as Fairy-ground: Scottish and Irish Female Authors and the Gothic Imagination, I navigate the fragile boundaries between historiography and literary production in the Romantic period (c. 1780-1830). My research focuses on how female authors use the Gothic aesthetic to reimagine the cultural and national past. I examine the connections between cultural nationalism, literature and historiography as imagined by female authors.

Questions about modernisation, meaning making, canon-formation and gender are central to my research. Broader research interests include British Romantic literature, intellectual and cultural history, romance tradition, gender studies, renaissance alchemy, manuscript studies and creative writing.