Stef Craps Ghent University

Stef Craps Ghent University Faculty

Stef Craps is an associate professor of English literature at Ghent University, where he directs the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative. His research interests range across contemporary global Anglophone literature, twentieth and twenty-first-century British fiction, memory and trauma studies, postcolonial theory, and ecocriticism and environmental humanities. He is the author of Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013; paperback 2015) and the editor, with Lucy Bond and Pieter Vermeulen, of Memory Unbound: Tracing the Dynamics of Memory Studies (Berghahn, 2017; paperback 2018). He has also guest-edited two special issues of Studies in the Novel, on climate change fiction (with Rick Crownshaw) and postcolonial trauma novels (with Gert Buelens), and one of Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, on transcultural Holocaust memory (with Michael Rothberg). His next book project is an introductory guide to the concept of trauma for Routledge’s New Critical Idiom series (with Lucy Bond). Recently he participated at a Round Table discussion for the Irish University Review.

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The Flemish Memory Studies Network coordinates research and graduate teaching activities at Ghent University and KU Leuven. Ghent University’s Cultural Memory Studies Initiative (CMSI) brings together scholars from various departments in the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy whose research revolves around memory and trauma as mediated through culture. Introduction: ecological grief (2020) Stef Craps (UGent) Grief as a doorway to love: an Interview with Chris Jordan (2020) Stef Craps (UGent), Ida Marie Olsen. Professor of English Literature Ghent University. I am a professor of English literature at Ghent University, Belgium, where I direct the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative. My research interests lie in twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture, memory and trauma studies, postcolonial theory, and ecocriticism.

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