CV

  • Current:

    — AMTD Global Talent Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waterloo, 2022-2024

    Future:

    — Junior Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders, KU Leuven, 2024-2027

    Past:

    — Postdoctoral Researcher, KU Leuven, 2021-2022

    — PhD Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders, KU Leuven, 2017-2021

    — Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation (B.A.E.F.), UCLA, 2019-2020

  • — PhD in English and Film Studies, KU Leuven & Ghent University, 2021

    — MA in Comparative Modern Literature, Ghent University, 2017

    — MA in Literary Studies, KU Leuven (& Cardiff University), 2016

    — MA in English and Dutch Linguistics and Literature, Ghent University, 2015

    — BA in English and Dutch Linguistics and Literature, Ghent University, 2014

  • Selected Fellowships & Awards:

    — Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship, Research Foundation – Flanders, 2024 - 2027: ca. €175.000/$235.000 CAD.

    — AMTD Waterloo Global Talent Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Waterloo, 2022 - 2024: ca. $150.000 CAD.

    — SSHRC - University of Lethbridge Research Fund (co-applicant with Daid Janzen), University of Lethbridge, 2024 - 2025: $15.000 CAD

    — Grant Notley Memorial Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Alberta, 2022 - 2024: $92.000 CAD (declined)

    — PhD Fellowship, Research Foundation – Flanders, 2017 - 2021: ca. €115.000/$155.000 CAD.

    — MLA Graduate Student Travel Grant, Modern Language Association, 2020: deferred due to COVID-19 pandemic

    — IAFOR Scholarship, The International Academic Forum, 2023: ¥80,000

    — IAFOR Scholarship, The International Academic Forum, 2020: ¥35,000

    — Fellowship of the B.A.E.F., Belgian American Educational Foundation, 2019 - 2020: $25.000

  • Selected Conference Papers:

    — IAMCR 2024 - Whiria te tāngata / Weaving people together, 30 Jun – 4 Jul 2024, University of Canterbury in Ōtautahi, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Presentation title: Orchestrating Petrol: Defining the Petrocultural Soundscape (with David Janzen)

    — 2024 ALECC Biennial Conference, 19 – 22 Jun 2024, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo ON, Canada

    Presentation title: Transformative Energy Soundscapes as Agents of Environmental Awareness (with David Janzen)

    — Petrocultures 2024, 15 - 18 May 2024, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Presentation title: Petrophonics: A Sound Studies Approach to Petrocultures (with David Janzen)

    — DePaul's 2024 Pop Culture Conference "A Celebration of Star Wars", 5 May 2024, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Presentation title: The Proletariat Awakens: A Marxist Analysis of Andor and the Proletarian Struggle against Imperial Oppression

    — ACLA Annual Meeting 2024, 14 - 17 Mar 2024, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Panel organiser (with Jordan Kinder): Comparative Energetics: Energy Encounters and Beyond

    — SLSA 2023: Alien, 26 - 29 Oct 2023, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

    Presentation title: On the Politics of Energy Resource Extraction in City-Building Simulators

    — The 3rd IAFOR International Conference on Arts & Humanities, 5 - 8 Jan 2023, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Presentation title: BoJack Horseman as a Tragedy of American Loneliness

    — Culture and Theory in Reactionary Times, 20 - 21 Oct 2022, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Presentation title: The Rise of American Loneliness: A Politics of Totalitarianism?

    — ASAP/13: Edge Play, 14 - 17 Sep 2022, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Presentation title: The Future Promises of Prolepsis as Literary Infrastructure (co-written with Pieter Vermeulen)

    — Environmental Justice: Flashpoints, Forms, Futures, 9 Jul 2021, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA (online)

    Presentation title: Sunny Side Up? On Solarpunk’s Troubled Environmentally Just Futures

    — Modern Language Association 2021 Annual Convention, 7 - 10 Jan 2021, Toronto, ON, Canada (online)

    Roundtable: Structures of Legibility: Emerging Approaches to Energy and Infrastructure

    — IAFOR - ACAH Conference on Arts & Humanities, 24 - 27 May 2020, Tokyo, Japan (online)

    Presentation title: Energy’s Proleptic Promises: Locating Infrastructure and the Future Anterior in Yamashita and Lerner (co-written with Pieter Vermeulen)

    — 2020 International Conference on Narrative, 5 - 7 Mar 2020, Intercontinental Hotel, New Orleans, LA, USA

    Presentation title: Petromelancholia, the Energopolitical Violence of Empire, and Settler Colonialism in Contemporary Fuel Fiction

    — Productive Futures: The Political Economy of Science Fiction, 12 - 14 Sept 2019, Birkbeck University, London, UK

    Presentation title: Productive Futures? An Inquiry into the Value of Energy in Post-Oil Fictions

    — ASLE Biennial Conference – ‘Paradise on Fire’, 26 - 30 Jun 2019, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

    Panel organiser & presenter: Energy Futures between Surplus and Scarcity (with Brent Bellamy)

    — 2019 International Conference on Narrative, 30 May – 1 Jun 2019, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

    Presentation title: Tracing Petromelancholia through Solarpunk Storyworlds

    — 40 Years of Alien - Symposium, 23 - 24 May 2019, Bangor University, Bangor, Wales

    Presentation title: Hissing in the Air Vents: On the Relation of Fear and Narrative in Alien: Isolation

    — Petrocultures 2018 – ‘Transitions’, 29 Aug - 1 Sept 2018, University of Glasgow, Scotland

    Presentation title: Thinking ‘Beyond Petroleum’ through April and the Extraordinary World