Department: Department of Literary Studies

  • Zahra El Morabit Sghire

    Zahra El Morabit Sghire earned her Master’s degrees in Language and Literature (English) and (French-Spanish), both summa cum laude, from Ghent University in 2023 and 2022, respectively. In 2023, Zahra began her PhD research on literature written by Moroccan migrants in Catalonia, supported by funding from the FWO. Her research examines how Generation 1.5 authors address the intersections of identity, mental health, and migration in their works.Zahra has presented her research at several international conferences, including the “Congreso Escrituras desterritorializadas: Literatura femenina y migración hispanoamericana en Europa,” organized by the Universidad del País Vasco (Spain) and KU Leuven (Belgium) in 2021. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili.Her broader research interests include intersectional identity, postcolonialism, and the representation of marginalized voices in European literature. Zahra is a member of CESSMIR, where she collaborates with scholars on interdisciplinary approaches to migration literature. She has published her work in Revista Letral and is preparing a paper on the literary representations of intergenerational relationships.

  • Marco Formisano

    Professor of Latin Literature in the Department of Literary Studies, a senior member of the GCLA (Ghent Center for Late Antiquity) and a member of the Doctoral School “Migrazioni, Differenze, Giustizia Sociale” at the University of Palermo, Italy. Before coming to Ghent I held positions and fellowships in France, Italy, Germany, the UK and the USA, experiences which have enabled me to appreciate a range of academic systems, languages and styles of thought and have made me particularly sensitive to topics related to intellectual migration. In my current book project, tentatively entitled “The Nomadic Alternative: Another Way of Looking at Classics and Beyond,” I approach the interpretation of ancient and modern literature from a nomadic perspective which is conceived as fundamentally different from the conscious and unconscious sedentarism broadly characterizing scholarly inquiry. This project is also inspired by many visits to Brazil, whose history, culture and language distinctly influence my current work.