Sofie Verraest was born in Kortrijk in 1986. She studied Dutch and French literature and linguistics at Ghent University and Aix-Marseille Université (2004-2007) and subsequently obtained a Master’s degree in Comparative Modern Literature (Ghent University, 2008). With a scholarship for specialization granted by the Flemish Community, she was enrolled in an M.A. of Philosophy at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski during the academic year of 2008-2009, after which she was employed on a doctoral research project funded by the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research (FWO). The results of this research are documented in the dissertation entitled ‘Eutopia Unbound: Imagining Good Places in Narratives from 1945 to the Present,’ which Verraest successfully defended in 2016.
