Elisabeth Bekers

Prof. dr. Elisabeth Bekers is Senior Lecturer of British and Postcolonial Literature in the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She teaches literature in English in the BA and MA programmes in Linguistics and Literary Studies at VUB, in the MA in African Studies at the University of Ghent and in the interuniversity MA in Gender and Diversity. Her research focuses on authors of African descent, with a particular interest in image and knowledge production, canon formation, intersectionality and the imagination of Europe and Brussels in literature. Currently she is working on experimental black British women writers and, as part of an international network, on literary imaginings of Europe from peripheries in and beyond Europe.