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Katrijn Van den Bossche obtained an MA in German and English Literature and Linguistics from the University of Ghent in 2021, with a thesis on the intersection of ecocriticism and memory studies in The Children of the Dead by the Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. She was an Erasmus exchange scholar at University of Sheffield (2020) and participated in the University of Gent Summer School on climate change (2021). Additionally, she is completing an MA in Teaching (2021-2022).
In June 2022, she started as a doctoral researcher in June 2022 as part of the FWO-funded research project “Self-Reflexivity and Generic Change in 21st-Century Black British Women’s Literature” (under the supervision of Janine Hauthal and Elisabeth Bekers). Her PhD dissertation aims to track self-reflexivity as a catalyst for generic change in works by Bernardine Evaristo, Andrea Levy, Patience Agbabi, Laura Fish, Helen Oyeyemi and Zadie Smith.
Activities
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Narrative Research Group AG: Vorstellung aus dem Promotionsprojekt „Self-Reflexivity and Generic Change in 21st-Century Black British Women’s Literature“
Katrijn Van den Bossche (Speaker)
12 Jan 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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“He won the war but lost the plot”: genre en zelf-reflexiviteit in Telling Tales (2014) van Patience Agbabi
Katrijn Van den Bossche (Speaker)
17 Mar 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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Taking Meta to Another Level: Experimental Self-Reflexivity in Patience Agbabi’s Telling Tales (2014)
Katrijn Van den Bossche (Speaker)
1 Mar 2023 → 4 Mar 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a conference
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An Evening With Laura Fish: A Reading from her Novel-in-Progress 'Lying Perfectly Still' + Interview
Katrijn Van den Bossche (Organiser) & Patricia Rodrigues da Costa (Host)
30 Mar 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in or organizing a public lecture/debate
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'Writing Back' with Laura Fish
Katrijn Van den Bossche (Organiser)
31 Mar 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in or organizing a public lecture/debate
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Thesis
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'"Der Wald kommt! Der Wald kommt!': ökokritische Überlegungen zu Elfriede Jelineks 'Die Kinder der Toten"'
Author: Van den Bossche, K., 1 Jul 2021Supervisor: Biebuyck, B. (External person) (Promotor)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis