Kristiaan Versluys#
| Membership Number: | 3400 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BELGIUM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.gust.ugent.be/kristiaanversluys |
Present and Previous Positions
- Full Professor of American Literature and Culture at Ghent University
- Founding director of the Ghent Urban Studies Team
- 2004-2005 Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS)
Fields of Scholarship
- American literature, especially the contemporary Jewish-American Novel
- The literature of the city, especially New York
- Current project: “9/11: the Discursive Responses”
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Flemish Academy of Sciences
