Hendrik van Gorp#
| Membership Number: | 452 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 Professor Emeritus
- 1978, 1985 Visiting Professor University College London and U. of Penn, 1991-1992: Research Semesters Wolfenbüttel (Göttingen, DE) and NIAS (Wassenaar, NL)
- 1985 - 1991 Dean Faculty of Arts KU Leuven
- 1974 - 2000 Full Professor General and Comparative Literature KU Leuven, Professor General literature KU Brussel
- 1970 - 1974 Lecturer KU Leuven
- 1968 Ph.D Germanic Philology (literature) K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Fields of Scholarship
- Translation theory (Literary translation)
- Genre theory
- Popular narrative genres: picaresque literature, gothic novel
Honours and Awards
- 1998 - 1999 Francqui Fellowship University of Antwerp
