Birgit Van Puymbroeck

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Birgit Van Puymbroeck

English Studies
Department of Literature
Ghent University
Blandijnberg 2

9000 Ghent
Belgium

 

 

 

Birgit Van Puymbroeck was awarded her Ph.D. in literature at Ghent University in September 2012 and holds MA and BA degrees from Ghent University in English and French literature. She is currently a doctor-assistant ad interim at Ghent, where she is also involved as a teacher in the Postgraduate Program in American Studies. Her research interests include modernism, network theory and Anglo-American-French relations. She has published on modernist literary magazines such as the Mercure de France, the English Review, the Nouvelle Revue Française, the Criterion and the Anglo-French Review and the literary contacts and writings of Ford Madox Ford, Gertrude Stein and André Gide in international peer-reviewed journals and essay collections. She is currently preparing a book entitled Reassembling Modernism: Anglo-French Networks, Periodicals, Literary Analysis, which examines the use of Bruno Latour’s actor-network theory for the analysis of literary periodicals and texts.