Thomas Velle (°1991) received a bachelor degree in Classics (Latin and Greek Literature and Linguistics) and a master degree in Comparative Modern Literature at Ghent University. Afterwards he studied Journalism at the Free University of Brussels. Since October 2014, he is again affiliated to Ghent University and holds a predoctoral research fellowship of the FWO (Flanders Research Foundation). The Phd-project with the title “Nicolai Klimii iter subterraneum of Ludvig Holberg: Meta-reflection, Imaginary Voyages and the Classical Tradition” (supervisor: Wim Verbaal) approaches Holberg’s Neo-Latin satire from the genre of imaginary voyages and places the work in a European literary context, alongside novels as Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes.
