Academic Profile
Employment
- 2012 - present: Cataloguer for the Short-Title Catalogus Vlaanderen
(STCV) at the Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheek (Flanders Heritage Library)
I am currently working on location in the Public Library of Bruges
Education
Degrees
- 2007-2012: PhD (University of Warwick) in Renaissance Studies
- 2006-2007: MA (Leiden University) in Book & Digital Media Studies [distinction]
15,000 word dissertation (supervisor: Prof. dr. A. H. van der Weel):
'A Publishing History (1860-1896) of George Eliot in the Netherlands with a short history of the Van Druten firm (Sneek)'
- 2004-2006: MA/Licentiate (K.U. Leuven) in English & German Literature
35,000 word dissertation (supervisor: Prof. dr. Ortwin de Graef)
'Posterity Is Our Only Judge. Literary Biography and John Keats: Robert Gittings versus Andrew Motion'
- 2002-2004: Candidacy (K.U. Brussel) in English & German
Supplementary
- STCV bibliography workshop (November 2011)
- EN953 Rhetoric and Renaissance Literature (Spring 2008) [audited]
- Warwick-Warburg Doctoral Training Programme: Resources and Techniques for the Study of Renaissance and Early Modern Culture (Spring 2008)
- Palaeography and Bibliography CSR skills module (Autumn 2007 - Spring 2008)
Responsibilities
Research
- Postgraduate research assistant for the Leverhulme-funded project 'Renaissance Cultural Crossroads: An Analytical and Annotated Catalogue of Translations, 1473-1640' (CSR, University of Warwick) (2007 - 2010)
- British contributor to the Bibliographie Internationale de l'Humanisme et de la Renaissance (Droz) (2008 - 2010)
- Editorial Board member of De Gulden Passer. Tijdschrift voor Boekwetenschap (Journal for Book History) (2009 - present)
Administrative
- Chair, Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) (2008 - 2010)
- Librarian, University of Warwick String Orchestra (2008 - 2009)
- Invigilator, Department of French Studies, University of Warwick (2008 - 2009)
- PhD Representative, Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC) (2007 - 2008)
Professional Memberships
- Vlaamse Werkgroep Boekgeschiedenis (Flemish Society for Book History) (2009 - present)
- Vereniging der Antwerpse Bibliofielen (Antwerp Bibliophile Society) (2009 - present)
- SRS (Society for Renaissance Studies) (2009 - present)
- ALCS (Association for Low Countries Studies in Great Britain and Ireland) (2009 - 2011)
- SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) (2008 - present)
Grants, Awards, etc.
- Society for Renaissance Studies (July 2009): Postgraduate Bursary to attend the Tudor Translation conference at Newcastle University
- The Bibliographical Society (June 2009): Minor Grant for bibliographical research in London-based libraries
- The Leverhulme Trust (2007-2010): PhD-studentship in the context of the Renaissance Cultural Crossroads project