Guylian Nemegeer is an FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellow in Literary Studies. He wrote a PhD dissertation on the symbolisation of the Renaissance in Gabriele d'Annunzio's cultural nationalism. After his PhD, he worked as an AB-FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Academia Belgica in Rome (March - September 2023). He has been a visiting researcher at Université Paris-Nanterre and Universidad de Córdoba. He is Editor-in-Chief of Incontri: rivista europea di studi italiani.
His current research focuses on the discourses and ideologies that shaped French and Italian literature and culture from the late 19th century onwards. He is specifically interested in how French and Italian intellectuals used the idea of a "Latin Renaissance" to negotiate their own role in modernity and to construct notions of European identity in the run-up to the First World War. Next to this main research focus, he is also interested in contemporary European authors’ politics of literature, literary histories, short story collection theory, the contemporary afterlives of canonical authors, and various forms of (trans)national identity building.
His first monograph, Gabriele D'Annunzio and Italy's Renaissance, is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan. With Christina Bezari, he co-edited the special issue "Latinity and Modernity: Transnational Perspectives" for Romance Quarterly. His work has appeared in Journal of European Studies, The Italianist, Romance Notes, Language and Literature, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and other international journals.
