I am a PhD student in literary studies and history at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University. My doctoral research looks at the role of the senses in the aesthetic experience and representation of landscape in 1930s European travel writing. More broadly, I am interested in interwar literature and film, travel narratives, and the history and theory of aesthetics.
After finishing my MA in History at Ghent University in 2016, I obtained an MA in Liberal Studies from the New School for Social Research in 2019 on a Fulbright Scholarship. I then worked as a researcher for TIC-Collaborative, a project that focused on transnational connections in the field of social reform. This led to a virtual exhibition and articles for Historical Research and the Journal of Open Humanities Data.
My non-academic writing has appeared in De Standaard, De Morgen, Rekto:Verso, Sabzian, and nY. In 2021, I co-edited a collection of essays on Netflix for Academia Press. A book on Jean Vigo’s 1934 film L’Atalante is forthcoming with Punctum Books.
