Fauve Vandenberghe is currently a Fulbright and B.A.E.F (Belgian American Educational Foundation) Postdoctoral Fellow (2026) in the English Department at Harvard University.
She was previously an FWO Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Academia Belgica (Summer-Fall 2025) in Rome and received her PhD in June 2025 at the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University. Her research project "Hyenas in Petticoats: British Women's Satire, 1670-1760” was funded by the Flemish Research Council (2020-2025). It examined a corpus of satiric works by female writers and studied the deeply intertwined and reciprocal relationship between satiric theory and notions of womanhood during the eighteenth century. Broader research interests include eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature, Empire, the history of feminist criticism, the history of emotions and affect theory, queer and gender studies, translation and book history.
Her work has been published in journals such as Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Restoration, Literature Compass, Women’s Writing, Tulsa Journal for Women’s Literature and Notes & Queries. In the Winter-Spring semester of 2023, she was a visiting graduate researcher at the University of Toronto. She is the winner of the ASECS Women's Caucus Catherine Macaulay Prize (2022) and she has previously received a Curran Fellowship of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (2026), a Visiting Fellowship at the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale (2024), an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship at the Huntington Library (2023), and an Ardeola Charitable Trust Visiting Fellowship at Chawton House Library (2022).
