Hans Vandevoorde

Biography

 Hans Vandevoorde is one of the coordinators of the Centre for the Study of Experimental Literature (CEL/SEL) and with Lars Bernaerts editor of the Cahier voor Literatuurwetenschap (CLW). He was chairman of the Centre for Literature, Intermediality and Culture (CLIC) till 2014. At this time, he supervises an OZR-project on autobiographical writing after 1985 in Dutch literature (VUB) and a FWO-project on diaries in the second world war, a PhD on art and literature (VUB) and two FWO-fellowships (on the surrealist metaphor and on documentary literature in the literature of the sixties). He was awarded the Karel van de Woestijne prize for his study on allegory in the work of this Flemish poet (published in 2006). He published several volumes and articles on nineteenth century, fin the siècle and interbellum literature & culture, and on post-war poetry. Among the international conferences and workshops he organized, can be mentioned: Literary Anarchism and Utopism in the Low Countries and Germany (Freie Universität Berlin, 2003), Between Experience and Representation. Cities in an Area of Tension, 1800-1914 (Radboud University Nijmegen, 2011), Through words and places. Travel and writing in Dutch and German-speaking regions between 1800 and 1950 (Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2013) and Achter de Verhalen (Brussels, 2014). A sabbatical leave was granted for the year 2014-2015. Main research interests in the field of cultural history are: cafés, world fairs, writers associations and generation study; in the field of literature: authorship (intentionality), literary genres (prose poems, travel literature), the theory of biography and the rhetoric of pathos.

Research Interest

  Cafés, world fairs, writers associations and generation study; in the field of literature: authorship (intentionality), literary genres (prose poems, travel literature), the theory of biography and the rhetoric of pathos.