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Research interests
	Gert BUELENS (Prof.) Lic. (Ghent, 1984), Cert. of Teacher Training (Ghent, 1985), D.Phil. in American Studies (Sussex, 1990)
	Office: 130.032, Blandijnberg 2(3rd floor) Tel: 32-9-264.3700 Office hours: by appointment (preferably by e-mail) E-mail:
American literature (esp. Henry James; Jewish-American fiction) Contemporary literature in English (e.g. J.M. Coetzee) Literary and cultural theory (esp. gender, sexuality, queer theory, theory of performativity, (postcolonial) trauma theory) Literature/Culture and ethnicity Literature/Culture and ethics/ideology (esp. from rhetorical or narratological angles)
Editorial work
Associate editor (Europe) of MELUS: Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States Editor (with Richard Hathaway), Henry James E-Journal Member of the Editorial Board of Jaarboek voor Literatuurwetenschap, Canadian Review of American Studies, Queeries, Comparative American Studies and The Henry James Review.
Some recent publications
Henry James and the "Aliens": In Possession of the AmericanScene (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2002) - Recipient of the AmericanStudies Network Book Prize 2004. Enacting History in Henry James: Narrative, Power, andEthics (Cambridge: CUP, 1997) See also Baahe list
Research projects
Project Director 'Research on authorship as performance' A critique of literary ethics: metaphor,metonymy and synecdoche in Anglo-American poetry and prose of the nineteenthcentury (Co-ordinators:G. Buelens, O. de Graef (KU Leuven) and B. Biebuyck (German Department); Researcher: Sigi Jöttkandt; January 2003 - December 2006)
Supervision of doctoral research
"From Ashes Humour to Literary Ethics of Care: Resistant Strategies in HIV/AIDS Fiction and Memoirs" "The Construction of Masculinity in the Work of Oscar Wilde" "In Pursuit of Masculinity: Constructions of Masculinity in the Work of Ernest Hemingway and David Herbert Lawrence" "Performative Dimensions of Mimesis in Queer Identity" "Walking the Border/Lost in the Borderlands: The Discursive Construction of Diasporic Identities in Contemporary Jewish American Literature"
Functions in scholarly organizations
Henry James Society: President 2005. Belgian Luxembourg American Studies Association: Vice-President.