Pierre-Guillaume Méon

Pierre-Guillaume Méon has been Professor of Economics at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) since 2004. He obtained his PhD in 1999 from the Université Robert Schuman (Strasbourg, France). His work is in the field of political economy, with contributions on the political economy of monetary policy, corruption, and democratic transitions. His work touches upon cultural economics too, with work on the economics of religion and literary prizes. He has published in international peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Development Economics, the British Journal of Political Science, the Journal...

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Elizaveta Berquin

Elizaveta has a background in art history and holds an MSc in Digital Humanities (KU Leuven), specializing in data analysis and visualization for digital cultural heritage. In 2023, Elizaveta joined MODERNITAS, where she is currently working on her PhD thesis about the cultural history of Russian emigration in Belgium during the interwar period. Her research aims to broaden the established historical canon by analyzing cultural transfer within émigré networks, using both quantitative and qualitative methods. Contact Elizaveta Berquin

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Christina Bezari

Chargée de recherches FNRS

Christina Bezari est chercheuse postdoctorale à l'Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Ses recherches se situent à l’intersection de la littérature espagnole et comparée, de la traductologie et de l’histoire des femmes. Elle est l’auteur du livre "Transnational Modernity in Southern Europe: Women’s Periodicals and Salon Culture" (Routledge, 2023) et la co-éditrice du volume "Las Vanguardistas: Women and the Avant-Garde in Ibero-America" (2022). Son projet actuel propose une étude comparative du modernisme en Espagne et en Belgique et examine les réseaux littéraires transnationaux du début du XXe siècle. Christina a travaillé...

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Aleksandar Bošković

Lecturer

Aleksandar Bošković teaches at Columbia University. He is a scholar of Russian and East European modernism, Yugoslav, post-Yugoslav and Balkan Studies, with a strong background in comparative literature, critical theory, and visual studies. He specializes in avant-garde literature and experimental art practices explored through the lenses of comparative media. He is the author of The Poetic Humor in Vasko Popa’s Oeuvre (in Serbian, 2008) and co-editor of The Fine Feats of the Five Cockerels Gang (2022) and Zenithism (1921-1927): A Yugoslav Avant-garde Anthology (2023). Columbia Academia profile Contact...

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Laurence Brogniez

Professor of Literary History and Comparative Literature

Laurence Brogniez is a full professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where she teaches literary history and comparative literature. In her thesis, published by Champion under the title Préraphaélisme et Symbolisme : peinture littéraire et image poétique (2003), she tackled the question of the relationship between painting and literature in the Symbolist period. She has edited several collective volumes (Ecrits voyageurs: les artistes et l'ailleurs, Peter Lang, 2012; Ceci n'est pas un titre. Les artistes et l'intitulation, Fage, 2014; Entretiens d'artistes, Vrin, 2015; L'artiste en revues, Presses Universitaires de...

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Serena Buti

PhD Student

Serena Buti obtained her MA in Polish Literature at Sapienza University of Rome. She studied in Moscow, Warsaw, and Krakow to perfect her language skills. In her Master’s thesis (Post-Romantic Self-Creation in Biesy by Piotr Odmieniec Włast, supervisor: Prof. M. Woźniak; co.supervisor: Prof. L. Marinelli) she offered the first Italian translation of the poetic prose Biesy and proposed a different interpretation of this work. She is currently a PhD student in Germanic and Slavic Studies at Sapienza University of Rome and Charfles University in Prague. In her dissertation (supervisors: Prof....

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Cristian Cámara Outes

Postdoctoral researcher

MA in Literary Studies and Aesthetics at Universidad Complutense de Madrid ("The Sound Poetry among the Artistic Practices of the Avant-garde"), MA in Literary Theory at Universidad Iberoamericana de México ("Form and Sound in the Literary Theory of Russian Formalism"), PhD at Charles University of Prague ("The Russian Formalism, The Czech Structuralism, and Their Influence on Contemporary Translation Theory"). Between 2013 and 2016 I lectured on Spanish language and literature at Southern Federal University (Rostov-on-Don, Russia). Since 2016 I have been the director of the collection SDVIG - Theoretical Texts...

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Jean Luc De Meulemeester

Professeur

Jean Luc De Meulemeester is professor of History of Economic Thought and of Economic Ethics at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management and of Political Economy of Income and Inequalities at the Philosophy and Social Sciences Faculty. Born in 1965, he studied Economics (ULB, 1987, licence-MA), History (candidature-BA, 1990) and Econometrics (licence spéciale- MSc, 1991) at ULB. He began his career at the Institute of Sociology at ULB (1990-1997) while doing his PhD in Economics (Economics of higher education) (PhD 1996). He spent a year at the Royal...

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Clément Dessy

Chercheur qualifié F.R.S.-FNRS

Clément Dessy is FNRS Research Associate and Lecturer in Belgian, French and Comparative Literatures at the Université libre de Bruxelles. His research focuses on text/image relations, transnational literary studies, and cultural exchanges at the fin de siècle. He is currently preparing a monograph on the cultural relations between Belgium and Britain at the turn of the century, and has recently started a research on the figure of the writers-translators in the French-speaking area between 1840 and 1914. He is currently leading an ARC research project on translation and fin-de-siècle magazines...

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Pavlov Evgeny

Аssociate Professor of Russian and History

Evgeny Pavlov is Associate Professor of Russian and History at the University of Canterbury | Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha in Ōtautahi | Christchurch, Aotearoa | New Zealand. He holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. He is the author of Shok pamiati: avtobiograficheskaia poetika Val’tera Ben’amina i Osipa Mandel’shtama (The Shock of Memory: Autobiographical Poetics of Walter Benjamin and Osip Mandelstam, Moscow: NLO, 2005) and editor of a number of volumes on Russian and comparative literature. Evgeny Pavlov’s principal area of research is Russian and European cultural...

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Eve Filée

PhD Student

Eve Filée completed a Master's degree in Central European Languages and Literature at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), and a second Master's degree in English Literature, specializing in didactics and education. In 2023, she began her doctoral studies at ULB under the co-supervision of Petra James and Dennis Ioffe, researching the reception of John Ruskin in the "regional" contexts of Belgium and Bohemia at the turn of the twentieth century. Her aim is to uncover overlooked aspects within historiographies, often influenced by the origin, gender, or reputation of the...

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Györgyi Földes

Chercheuse

Földes Györgyi, née le 21 octobre 1970 à Budapest. Historienne littéraire, critique, rédactrice en chef de Helikon (revue de l’Institut d’Études Littéraires du Centre de Recherche des Sciences Humaines). Doctorat en 2002 à l'École d'Études Littéraires à l’Université Eötvös Loránd (Budapest, Hongrie). De 2000 à 2004, maître de conférences, puis maître de conférences adjoint à l’École Supérieure Eszterházy Károly (Département de la Langue et de la Littérature françaises) à Eger. 2004 : organisatrice culturelle de la Maison d’Éditions Széphalom. 2004-2005 : rédactrice de la revue 2000. 2009- 2011 : enseignante...

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Dagmar Garay Kročanová

Associate professor

Graduated from Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic (1990 Russian and Slovak languages and literature; 1993 English language and literature); 1997 PhD. in theory and history of Slovak literature at Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic; 1997 - 2006 and 2012 - present: Department of Slovak Literature and Literary Studies Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic: courses in modern Slovak literature (1900 - 1948), theory of drama; 2001 - 2004 and 2012 - present: chair of the department; 2021 - present: supervisor of the...

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Michal Habaj

Senior Researcher

Graduated from Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic (1998 Slovak Language and Literature); 2002 PhD. in Theory and History of Slovak Literature at Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava; 1998 - present: Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava; 2008 - 2015: Chair of the 20th Century Slovak Literature Research Department; 2018 - present: Chair of the Department of Literary History. His research focuses on Modernism and Avant-Gardes in Slovak Literature and Culture of the 1920s and 1930s. He is the author of Druhá moderna Second...

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Adeline Heck

Chargée de recherches FNRS

Adeline Heck holds a doctorate in French literature. Her academic specialty centers on the study of nineteenth-century French literature and its interactions with opera and vocal music. Her past experience in opera performance has informed her research, resulting in an interdisciplinary dissertation entitled Under the Spell of Wagner: The Revue Wagnérienne and Literary Experimentation in the Belle Epoque (1878-1893), which she defended in 2020 at Princeton University. Of dual French and American heritage, she has published in journals of literature and musicology both in French and in English. In 2022,...

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Sara Herczyńska

PhD Student

PhD candidate in the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw, member of the Section for Anthropology of the Word and of the Holocaust Remembrance Research Team. Currently preparing a dissertation on Polish historic house museums. She participated in many research projects in the field of memory studies. At the University of Warsaw, she conducts courses on cultural anthropology, anthropology of the word and on museum studies. Contact Sara Herczyńska

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Dana Hučková

Senior Researcher

Graduated from Comenius University, Faculty of Arts, in Bratislava, Slovak Republic (1991 Aesthetic and Literary studies); 1995 PhD. in theory and history of Slovak literature at Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Republic; 1991 - present: Institute of Slovak Literature of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovak Republic; 2007 - 2019: director of the institute; 2019 - present: scientific editor of the journal Slovenska literatura (Slovak Literature); research focuses on the Slovak literature at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and Slovak modern school. Monographs: Dušan Dušek...

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Zuzana Husárová

Assistant professor

Zuzana Husárová is a researcher and author in the field of electronic literature, teaching at Digital Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design (SR), an ex-Fulbright scholar at MIT, USA (2011). She is the author of experimental literature across various media, has created sound poetry, interactive digital poetry, poetic performances and transmedia poetry. She has collaborated with Ľubomír Panák on interactive literary pieces (with the use of neural networks: Liza Gennart, Kinect: Enter: in’ Wodies, I: *ttter, Android application Obvia Gaude, digital literature BA-Tale, Pulse). She has co-authored...

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Jana Kantoříková

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin

Jana Kantoříková received her PhD in Slavic Philology, History of Czech Literature and Literary Theory at the Charles University and the University of Regensburg (2018). Currently, she is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin, project: Blackness Imagery in the Construction of European Identity/ies: The Case of the Czech Lands in a Transnational Perspective. She is also an Associate Member of the Research Centre Eur’Orbem: Cultures and Societies of Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe (Sorbonne University/CNRS). Her research focuses on European Modernism, relations between visual arts, literature...

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Agnieszka Karpowicz

Associate professor

Ses intérêts de recherche incluent l'anthropologie de la littérature (la relation entre la littérature et la ville et l'espace, l'histoire de la culture polonaise du 20ème siècle). Elle s'intéresse particulièrement aux pratiques (néo)avant-gardistes et verbovisuelles. Elle a étudié, entre autres, les œuvres de Leopold Buczkowski et de Miron Bialoszewski. Auteure du livre "Kolaż. Awangardowy gest kreacji (Themerson, Buczkowski, Białoszewski)" [Collage. Un geste créatif d'avant-garde]. Membre du Centre de recherche sur l'avant-garde et du comité de la série de publications "awangarda/rewizje" [avant-garde/révisions] (Université Jagellonne). Membre du réseau européen d'études sur l'avant-garde...

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Ivan Landa

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Mark Lipovetsky

Professor of Russian Studies

MARK LIPOVETSKY is a professor of Department of Slavic Languages at Columbia University. His research interests are diverse and include Russian postmodernism, New Drama, Soviet literary and cinematic tricksters, Soviet underground culture as well as various aspects of post-Soviet culture. He is the author of twelve monographic books and more than a hundred articles. He also co-edited twenty collections of articles on Russian literature and culture of the 20th-21st centuries, including a volume of articles on Vladimir Sorokin. Among his books, Charms of Cynical Reason: The Transformations of the Trickster...

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Martina Mecco

Postdoctoral Researcher

Martina Mecco studied at the University of Padua. She obtained a PhD in "Germanic and Slavic Studies" at Sapienza University of Rome and at the Charles University in Prague. In her doctoral thesis, she analysed Roman Jakobson's activity in Czech periodicals published between the two world wars, focusing on his role as a cultural transfer between the Russian and Czech contexts. Within MODERNITAS, Martina works on the PDR project - "Belgium ‘read’ in Czech and German".She is also interested in the history of literary theory, in particular Russian formalism and...

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Helga Mitterbauer

Corps académique

Helga Mitterbauer has been teaching German literature at the Université libre de Bruxelles since 2015; Austrian Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Alberta (2010–2015), PhD (2000) and venia legendi (2008) at the University of Graz where she taught from 1993 till 2013; Visiting professor (ELTE Budapest, University of Zagreb, University of Innsbruck); president of the coordinating committee of the book series CHLEL (Amsterdam, Benjamins) and co-editor of the book series Forum: Österreich (Frank & Timme, Berlin). She has published over 20 books and numerous articles on Austrian, German, and...

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Astrid Muls

Docteure en langues, lettres et traductologie

After having obtained two Masters degrees in modern languages and literatures (Perfectionnement en langues slave and Langues et cultures d'Europe centrale), I did a PhD at the ULB concerning Czechoslovak dissent and its media reception in France and Belgium. My field of research extends to contemporary Czech culture, history and literature in its transnational aspects from transdisciplinary angles of analysis. Contact Astrid Muls

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Mary Nicholas

Professor

Mary A. Nicholas is professor of Russian in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. A graduate of the University of Wyoming and the University of Illinois, she received her doctorate in Russian literature from the University of Pennsylvania. An award-winning teacher, Nicholas has published extensively on Soviet and post-Soviet prose, poetry, and the visual arts. She is the author of Writers at Work: Russian Production Novels and the Construction of Soviet Culture, a study of the creation of the “new Soviet man” in the...

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Kim Oosterlinck

Professeur

Kim Oosterlinck is Professor of Finance at the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management (Université libre de Bruxelles) and Research Fellow at the CEPR. He holds a Master in Management, a Master in Art History and Archaeology, and a Ph.D. in Economics and Management from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). After a post-doctoral stay at Rutgers University, he came back at ULB as professor. His main research interests are sovereign bond valuation, financial history and questions related to the art market. Kim Oosterlinck has published in several leading...

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Karel Piorecký

Scholar

Since 2005 he has been working at the Institute for Czech Literature of the CAS, where he is involved in collective projects such as History of Czech Literature under the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1945) or Czech Literary Internet: data, analysis, research. He divides his individual research interests between contemporary poetry and the links between digital and literary culture. After the publication of his monograph Czech Poetry in the Postmodern Situation (2011), in which he examined the poetic work of authors debuting in the 1990s, he shifted his professional...

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Anne-Sophie Radermecker

Chargée de cours

Anne-Sophie V. Radermecker graduated in both art history (University de Liège, 2014) and Cultural Management (Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2012). In 2019, she defended an original PhD dissertation dedicated to the market for early Flemish paintings at the crossroads of art history and economics. She is also a B.A.E.F. fellow from Duke University (DALMI - Duke Art Law and Markets Initiative, 2019-2020) and a lecturer at Erasmus University Rotterdam (Master in Cultural Economics & Entrepreneurship, 2020-2021). Since 2021, she is an assistant professor in Cultural Management at the Université libre...

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Marta Rakoczy

Assistant Professor

Marta Rakoczy: cultural historian, philosopher, head of the Anthropology of Word Team at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw and head of the Korczakianum - Scientific Laboratory dealing with the legacy of Janusz Korczak/Henryk Goldszmit at the Warsaw Museum. She works on the anthropology of literacy, the avant-garde, the history of modernization and cultural studies of childhood and youth. Author of books: Słowo, działanie, kontekst. O etnograficznej koncepcji języka Bronisława Malinowskiego [Word - Action - Context. On Bronislaw Malinowski's ethnographic conception of language] (2012), Polityki pisma....

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Sybil Raysz

PhD Student

Doctorate student since 2022, currently working on a thesis on russian and czech science-fiction literature from 1877 to 1972 as a means of reflecting on scientific thought and modernity. The interdisciplinary thesis combines issues of science and literature in a research on their interaction with the cultural and political slavic landscape of the period. Previously a graduate and a masters student in physics (2014-2019), and then a masters student in slavic letters and languages, with a focus on the russian (2019-2022) and czech (2021-2022) languages. Contact Sybil Raysz

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Willem Jan Renders

Member

Willem Jan Renders (1955) studied art history in the Netherlands and in Italy. After his graduation at the University of Utrecht, he worked in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and in the Kunsthal Rotterdam. From 1996 on he worked in the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, first as head of Communications and then as head of Education. From 2012 to mid 2021 he worked there as curator of Russian Art. Together with Charles Esche he curated the exhibition ‘Lissitzky – Kabakov : Utopia and Reality’ that was shown in the...

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Ellen Rutten

Professor of Literature and of Russian & Slavic Studies

Ellen Rutten is Professor of Literature and of Russian & Slavic Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Russian Literature. Her research interests include Russian & global contemporary literature, art, and (social) media. She is author of Sincerity after Communism (Yale UP 2017), Unattainable Bride Russia (Northwerstern UP, 2010) and co-editor of Memory, Media and Conflict (Routledge 2014) and Imperfections: Studies in Mistakes, Flaws, and Failures (Bloomsbury 2022, ed. Kelly/Kemper/Rutten), among other publications. Contact Ellen Rutten

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Barbora Svobodová

Postdoctoral researcher

She graduated from the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University in Brno with degrees in Czech language and literature and art history. Her doctoral thesis, defended in 2022, focused on the role of literature in the modern system of interwar Bata's Zlín in former Czechoslovakia and was written in the framework of a joint programme of the Faculty of Arts at Masaryk University and the Institute for Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences. In addition to the Bata phenomenon, she deals with literature and visual art of the...

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Tomasz Swoboda

Professor

Essayist and translator, Tomasz Swoboda teaches literature (Polish, Spanish, French and Francophone), translation, and performing arts in the Faculty of Languages at the University of Gdansk. He is the author of works devoted to art and literature, in Polish (doctoral thesis on decadent literature; collections of essays on translation) and in French (Histoires de l’œil, Amsterdam - New York 2013). He has translated into Polish, among others, works by Proust, Baudelaire, Nerval, Barthes, Bataille, Caillois, Leiris, Ricœur, Didi-Huberman, Mouawad, Le Corbusier, La Bible by Serge Bloch and Frédéric Boyer as...

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Anna Szyjkowska-Piotrowska

Professor

Anna Szyjkowska-Piotrowska is a philosopher, cultural critic and author with an interdisciplinary approach to research bridging philosophy, anthropology, linguistics and art theory (MA Philosophy, MA Applied Linguistics, PhD Philosophy of Culture, University of Warsaw; Habilitation in Philosophy, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University of Lublin). Associate Professor of Art Theory at the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw and at the Chopin University of Music in Warsaw, lectures at Collegium Civitas. She is the author of Po-twarz. (After-face. Transgressing Visibility in Art and Philosophy, Słowo/obraz terytoria 2016) and Dyrygując falom (Conducting the waves. Thinking...

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Michel Tytgat

Professor - FNRS Research Director

Physicist - Science Faculty - Head of Theoretical Physics. Expertise : theoretical physics, fundamental interactions, cosmology, outreach. Contact Michel Tytgat Link

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Jan Váňa

Leader of the Literature & Society Laboratory

Jan Váňa is a leader of the Literature & Society Laboratory at the Institute of Czech Literature of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Within the intensive five-year research project, Jan and his team are developing a research model for studying the relationship between literature and society through a critical discussion of relevant paradigms in literary theory and sociology. Jan Váňa's academic awards include a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology and a Junior Visiting Fellowship at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He was nominated...

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Harri Veivo

Professeur

Professeur en études nordiques à l'université de Caen Normandie et directeur de l'unité de recherche ERLIS, mes recherches portent sur les mouvements modernes et d'avant-garde dans les lettres et les arts de la Finlande et des pays scandinaves. Parmi mes publications récentes, on peut mentionner Dans l'ombre de l'avenir. La poésie d'avant-garde en Finlande, 1916-1944 (Caen, Presses universitaires de Caen, 2022), disponible en libre accès ici Contacter Harri Veivo ERLIS

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James Vliexs

PhD Student

James Vliexs a réalisé un Master en Histoire à la Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) et un second en Lettres modernes à l’Université Paris Nanterre. Il a entamé en 2023 son doctorat à l’ULB sur les périodiques littéraires et artistiques belges francophones entre 1880 et 1914 sous la co-direction de Clément Dessy et de Julien Schuh. Celui-ci se concentre sur les traductions littéraires dans ces revues, en employant une approche pluridisciplinaire. Son regard se porte également sur les périodiques français et flamands, ainsi que sur le vif débat autour du cosmopolitisme...

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Alexandra Waszak

Doctorante

Doctorante en Histoire de l'Art associée au CReA-Patrimoine.Recherches axées sur les carrières des sculptrices entre XIXe et XXe siècle. Contacter Alexandra Waszak

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Frederick H. White

Professor

Dr. Frederick H. White is Professor of Russian and Integrated Studies at Utah Valley University. He is also a National Security Studies Fellow. He has published eight books and over fifty academic articles on Russian literature, film and culture. He is one of the leading specialists on the writer Leonid Andreev and has published in the areas of Russian Modernism, psychiatry and literature in the Russian fin de siècle, the economics of culture and Russian/Soviet cinema. Contact Frederick H. White

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Sarah Wilson

Professor

Sarah Wilson enseigne dans le Département Moderne de l’Institut Courtauld (Université de Londres) où elle dirige la programme ‘Global Conceptualism’ Elle est commissaire de l’exposition rétrospective Pierre Klossowski (Londres et Cologne, 2006, Centre Pompidou 2007) et Paris, Capitale des Arts, 1900-1968 (Royal Academy de Londres, Guggenheim, Bilbao, 2002). Elle est invitée à une chaire d’excellence à l’université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin en 2012-2013, et enseigna comme professeure à l’ENSBA (2006-07) et Paris-IV Sorbonne, 2002-04. Après Picasso, Marx and Socialist Realism in France (2013), Le Monde visuel de la ‘French Theory’: Figurations (2010,...

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