Eline Batsleer (°1998) is a PhD Candidate in Italian Literature at the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University, where she obtained her master’s degrees in Linguistics and Literature: French-Italian (2020) and Comparative Modern Literature (2021). From October 2020 until April 2021 she worked as an intern at the ERC-project Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920 (acronym WeChangEd). Her current research project is funded by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) and focuses on the rhetorical construction of female identity during the Great War in Italy. Her research interests lie primarily in literary history and early-twentieth century Italian literature, with a particular focus on First World War literature and the female voices of the period.
