Amber Kempynck is a PhD researcher in English Literature in the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University. As part of the DELIAH project, she examines how women and non-cis-gendered comedians have created new venues for and new forms of stand-up comedy in the 21st-century Anglophone world and how they have, in the process, shaped new spaces, forms, and practices of democratic participation.
She studied Literature and Linguistics (English and Dutch, MA), Gender and Diversity (MA), and Teaching in Languages (MSc). Her previous research explored themes of gender in relation to madness, agency and likeability in Shakespeare and contemporary women’s writing.