Stijn Praet (°1986) holds a BA in Latin and English (Ghent University, 2007), an MA in Comparative Modern Literature (Ghent University, 2008), an advanced MA in Literary Studies (University of Leuven, 2009) and a PhD in Literary Studies (Ghent University, 2014). His doctoral dissertation Fairy Tales and the Latin Tradition: A Literary-Contextualising Approach considers some of the parallels and intersections between premodern Latin literature and the vernacular fairy tale tradition as it developed from Early Modernity onward.
After obtaining his doctorate, he was employed at Stockholm University as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin literature, and at Harvard University as a Visiting Scholar with the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies. He currently works at Ghent University as a Doctor-Assistant in the Department of Literary Studies, where he teaches classical translation and fairy-tale studies while continuing his research on the 'multi-narrative organisation' of high medieval Latin tale compilations.
Praet is the author of several articles and chapters on Latin and vernacular fairy tales. In collaboration with Wim Verbaal (Ghent University), he also recently published In het spoor van Vergilius (Uitgeverij P, 2017), a volume of annotated verse translations of medieval and early modern Latin poetry. At the time of writing, he is preparing a monograph based on his dissertation for Wayne State University Press and editing a collection of essays entitled The Fairy Tale Vanguard (with Anna Kérchy, University of Szeged).
