Julie Van Pelt studied Classics (Latin and Greek Literature and Linguistics, 2010-2013) and Comparative Modern Literary Studies (2013-2014) at Ghent University. She obtained a PhD in Greek Literature from Ghent University in 2019. Between October 2014 and September 2016 she held a research position as a PhD candidate in the ERC research project Novel Saints (directed by prof. dr. Koen De Temmerman), where she studied the continuation of ancient fictional narrative traditions into Greek late antique hagiography. In October 2016, she started a PhD fellowship of the FWO (Research Foundation - Flanders). Her research focuses on the representation of disguise and performance, gender and fictionality in late antique and medieval Lives of saints (cross-dressing saints, holy fools, and others; 4th-10th cent.). In 2019 she was a summer fellow at Dumbarton Oaks.
