Lines of Research

Transnational Collaboration in Civil Society

Marialena Avgerinou

PhD Candidate

Marialena’s research stands at the junction of decolonial theory and translation and literary studies, using field research methods from anthropology.

Sonja Faaren Ruud

Postdoctoral Researcher

Sonja conducts ethnographic research into collaborative literary projects centered around migration and multilingualism in Belgium, Spain and Germany.

Authorship and Poetics

Anna Sofia’s PhD is centred in a context of comparative world literature focusing on authorship, mediation and transnational collaboration through a postcolonial lens. Expanding on the term “migrant” in the project’s title, she explores the notion of displacement either by choice or force. The genre of the anthology is used to analyse and compare literary case studies of displacement from the postcolonial anglophone world: UK, Canada, and Australia.

Dr. Núria Codina Solà

Principal Investigator

Núria Codina Solà is assistant professor of Transnational and Plurilingual Literatures in a European Context at the Translation Studies Department at KU Leuven. She is also the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project “COLLAB: Making Migrant Voices Heard through Literature. How Collaboration Is Changing the Cultural Field” (2023-2028), which looks at a wide array of collaborative practices across Europe that create spaces for literary participation of migrants.

Literary Circulation, Publication Systems and the Digital Economy

Joana Roqué Pesquer

PhD Candidate

Situated at the intersection of digital humanities, sociology of literature and publishing studies, Joana’s PHD focuses on the circulation of transnational literature published by small-scale publishers that are funded partly via online crowdfunding mechanisms.

Internship Holders

Delphine Van Der Biest – Internship 2024-2025

Delphine Van Der Biest is a researcher with an academic background in Political Science and Conflict and Development Studies and is currently completing an advanced master’s in Literary Studies. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of political discourse, cultural memory, and postcolonial theory. In autumn 2025, she will begin a PhD at King’s College London, focusing on the evolution of Euroscepticism in the UK and its cultural entrenchment in the post-Brexit era. Through interdisciplinary and critical approaches, her work explores how narratives shape political meaning and identity across both literary and political fields.