IRTG Success Stories: IRTG Post Doc Alex Demeulenaere becomes a romance studies professor
IRTG Diversity is proud to announce that Alex Demeulenaere, who has been a Post-Doc member of the IRTG Diverstiy since its inception, has joined the Université de Lorraine (Metz) as Full Professor of Comparative Literature and Francophone Studies in September 2022. Alex Demeulenaere hold a Ph.D. in Romance languages and literatures (Universiteit Leuven, Belgium). He has published on (post)colonial and (post)national literatures in francophone cultures (France/Belgium/Africa/Canada), translation studies, travel narrative, literary theory (Said/de Certeau). Alex Demeulenaere is now head of the section "Language, Literature and Culture in Francophone Canada" of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-speaking Countries (Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien in den deutschsprachigen Ländern / GKS).