Zoë Ghyselinck is a Visiting Professor of Literary Studies and German Literature, as well as Postdoc Coordinator of the Consortium for Health Humanities, Arts, Reading, and Medicine (CHARM). Her research focuses on modern and contemporary portrayals of communication with the deceased, examining mediation and advancements in communication technology. Currently, she is developing a project on anticipatory mourning and the posthumous influence of end-of-life narratives created by terminally ill parents and grandparents in palliative care.

A classical scholar, Zoë is also interested in how ancient literatures and cultures are received in modern contexts. She earned her PhD from Ghent University in 2013, studying the reception of Greek tragedy and the philosophical concept of the tragic in early 20th-century German neoclassical literature. Her first monograph, Form und Formauflösung der Tragödie: Die Poetik des Tragischen und der Tragödie als religiöses Erneuerungsmuster in den Schriften Paul Ernsts (1866–1933), was published by De Gruyter in 2015, exploring the religious foundations of artistic and societal transformations in German neoclassical literature.

She has held various national and international postdoctoral positions, including at Radboud University in Nijmegen, where she received the Udo Keller Grant for Religion and Modernity (2014) for research in the German Literature Archives in Marbach. From 2016 to 2020, she was a Junior Postdoctoral Researcher at Ghent University through the Flanders Research Foundation and from 2020-2024 a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow (Ghent University) and a Senior Humboldt Fellow (2022-2023) at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

Zoë has co-edited Necrodialogues and Media: Communicating with the Dead in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, part of the Media and Cultural Memory series (in press with Dr. Elena Fabietti). Her upcoming book with Routledge, Communicating with the Dead in Contemporary Western Literature: Spiritual Mediums and Technical Media, examines how literature explores the intersection of media advancements and religious practices related to communication with the deceased.

In 2022, she was elected a member of the Young Academy, Belgium.

Projecten

Projecten als postdoctoraal medewerker

Projecten als doctoraatsonderzoeker

Tragedy, religion and morality. A study of the revival of 'the tragic' and of 'tragedy' in the work of the German neoclassical author Paul Ernst (1866-1933) (2009 - 2013)

Projecten als onderzoeker

Masses in German expressionist theater (2014 - 2016)

Publicaties

Belangrijkste publicaties

Form und Formauflösung der Tragödie: die Poetik des Tragischen und der Tragödie als religiöses Erneuerungsmuster in den Schriften Paul Ernsts (1866-1933)(2015)
- Zoë Ghyselinck
Looking back : reception as creative sparagmos : Oskar Kokoschka’s Orpheus und Eurydike revised(2017)
- Zoë Ghyselinck
De postume stem herzien : necrodialogen en mediatie in Malva en Een Lege plek(2022)
- Zoë Ghyselinck

Meest recente publicaties

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Onderwijs

Spring 2024 Lecturer in Charge: MA Course German Literature: Totengespräche (KU Leuven)

Since 2022 Course coordinator of the MA literary Studies Internship, Literary Studies, Ghent University, Belgium

Since Fall 2022 Co-Lecturer: Literature and Care (together with Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pieters). MA Comparative Modern Literary Studies, Ghent University, Belgium

Since Fall 2021 Lecturer in Charge: Literary Studies I (BA1), Catholic University of Leuven, Campus Kortrijk, Belgium

Fall 2021 Co-Lecturer German Literature IV: Literatur und Tod, BA 3 & MA, Ghent University, Belgium (together with Prof. Dr. Benjamin Biebuyck and Dr. Carolin Benzing)

Spring 2021 Co-Lecturer: Literary Studies: Theory and Analysis of Narrative Texts: Recent Developments. Narratology and Disability Studies
Research MA of Literary Studies, Catholic University of Leuven, University of Antwerp, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University, Belgium
(together with Prof. Dr. Gunther Martens and Liselotte Van der Gucht)

Fall 2015, 2017; 2019: Literary Studies. BA Tutorials on Narratology (Ghent University, Bachelor 2).

Spring 2015: In international History of Literary Studies (Radboud University Nijmegen, Bachelor 1).

Spring 2015: History of the European Novel (Radboud University Nijmegen, Bachelor 3).

Fall 2014: History of literary Theory (Radboud University Nijmegen, Bachelor 3).

Sept. 2013: Summer Course German (co-teaching, Ghent University): “Ikarus an der Spree. Antikenrezeption in DDR-Lyrik”.

Spring 2012: Guest lecturer MA course German History of Thoughts (Ghent University): “Georg Simmel und die Tragödie der Kultur”.

Sept. 2011: Summer Course German (co-teaching, Ghent University): Die deutsche Oper “Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny”

2010-2011: Guest lecturer MA Course German History of Thoughts (Ghent University): “Paul Ernst und die Tragödie”.

Stage

Dienstverlening

Oct. 2015 AAP-Representative in Faculty Board Meeting L&W
Oct. 2015 AAP-Representative in Vakgroepraad Letterkunde