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Mees Kempenaers

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mees.kempenaers@ugent.be

Department

Department of Literary Studies

Research group(s)

POWEZIE - Studie van de poëzie

Research Focus

Literary studies

Research Period

Research Language

Additional tags

English literature

Gender studies

Poetry

Queer studies

Trans studies

Tabgroup

About

Mees Kempenaers works as an assistant and doctoral researcher at the English Literature section of Ghent University.

Projects

Projects as PhD researcher

Trans poetry, poetics, and publications (2018 -

Publications

Key publications

Queer discomfort : desire and heteronormativity in Richard Siken’s crush(2019)
- Mees Kempenaers

Most recent publications

Full bibliography

Teaching

Seminar teacher on the course English Literature 1, which introduces students to literary analysis in English of prose, drama, and poetry (2017-2021)
Guest lecture "Transnarratieven in Amerikaanse Literatuur" ("Trans narratives in American Literature") in Context & Nuance: M/V/X (Dr. Jonas Roelens) - 2022
Guest lecture "(Queer) American Poetry: 1950s - 1980s" in English Literature III: American Literature (Prof. Gert Buelens) - 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022
Guest lecture on Michael Field for Historische Engelstalige letterkunde III: "Gender and Sexuality in Nineteenth Century English Literature" (Prof. Marysa Demoor) - 2019
Co-teacher of a seminar on The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson in Historische Engelstalige Letterkunde I (Prof. Andrew Bricker) - 2018