Ellen Simon behaalde haar doctoraat in de taalkunde aan de Universiteit Gent in 2006. Na een jaar als Francqui fellow (B.A.E.F.) aan de University of Massachusetts legde ze zich in verschillende postdoctorale projecten verder toe op de verwerving van klanken door tweedetaalleerders. Hiervoor zette ze experimentele studies op met zowel kinderen als volwassenen. Sinds 2017 was ze aangesteld als docent in de Vakgroep Vertalen, Tolken en Communicatie, met een specialisatie in Nederlands als Tweede Taal. Ze kijkt ernaar uit om zich in de afdeling Engels van de Vakgroep Taalkunde te verdiepen in de ontwikkeling van fonologische representaties, de relatie tussen perceptie en productie en de link met luistervaardigheid.

After his studies at the Catholic University in Milan, Andrea Cuomo moved to Austria in 2009, where he obtained his PhD in classics and Greek palaeography from the University of Vienna two years later. From 2012 to 2021, he worked at the Austrian Academy of Sciences as a senior researcher and project leader. His research focuses are on Medieval Greek linguistics (the language of Byzantine historians) and on the medieval schooling system (scholia on Sophocles). In Gent, as a research professor in Ancient and Byzantine Greek, Andrea will lead the ERC-Consolidator project “MELA. A Digital Grammar of the Greek Taught at Schools in Constantinople”. This research aims to retrieve the grammatical rules according to which medieval users communicated and make them available, in order to get a less-anachronistic understanding of what Medieval Greek is, of how communication in that language functioned, and of the role of linguistic norms within it.

Daniela De Simone is an archaeologist specialising in ancient India and earned her PhD in South Asian Studies (Archaeology) from “L’Orientale”, University of Naples in 2012. Before joining the Department of Languages and Cultures as Assistant Professor of Indian Studies, she was Curator of the South Asian Archaeological Collections at the British Museum, Assistant Programme Specialist at UNESCO New Delhi and Excavation Supervisor for the Italian Archaeological Mission to Nepal. Daniela has been awarded an FWO Odysseus Type II grant for the 5-year research project  and, with the support of her team based at UGent and in India, she will investigate the pre-colonial history of Indian forest-dwellers. She is also the PI of the 3-year publication project Excavations at Bodhgaya, the Site of the Buddha’s Enlightenment funded by the White-Levy Program at Harvard University.

Na twaalf jaar aan de KU Leuven (eerst als student Taal- en letterkunde, daarna als doctoraatsstudent, postdoc en doctor-assistent) werkt Bram Lambrecht sinds 1 september 2021 als docent in de Gentse vakgroep Vertalen, Tolken en Communicatie (afdeling Nederlands). Hij verzorgt colleges over literatuur en cultuur van de Lage Landen en verricht onderzoek op het snijvlak van de neerlandistiek, de literatuur- en de vertaalwetenschap. Zijn belangstelling gaat in het bijzonder uit naar poëzie, populaire cultuur en de vele functies die beide genres vervullen in de moderne samenleving. Voor de komende jaren ontwerpt hij een project over (transnationale en -mediale) vertalingen van genrefictie sinds de vroege twintigste eeuw.

Brecht de Groote verwierf een doctoraat in Engelse literatuur aan de KU Leuven. Tijdens zijn doctoraat en postdocs richtte zijn onderzoek zich op vertalers en vertaalcontacten en -theorieën in de romantische periode, met een focus op de Britse late romantiek en een bijzondere aandacht voor uitwisselingen tussen het VK enerzijds en Frankrijk en Duitsland anderzijds. In zijn lopende werk staan concepten als historiografie, misinformatie, representatie en performativiteit centraal.

Ludivine Crible completed her PhD in linguistics at the UCLouvain in 2017 and has since then worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the UK, at the Psychology department of the University of Edinburgh, and back in Belgium again. She works primarily in discourse analysis and investigates features of spoken language such as discourse markers “well, so, I mean” and hesitation phenomena (uhm & uh). She combines corpus-based and experimental methods to explore the many functions of these devices from a cognitive-functional perspective. More recently, she has also been involved in research projects on conversational alignment and on cross-linguistic transfer in second language acquisition.

Anna Andreeva is the author of Assembling Shinto: Buddhist Approaches to Kami Worship in Medieval Japan (Harvard Asia Center, 2017) and editor of Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions (with Dominic Steavu; Brill, 2016). She is currently working on her second monograph on childbirth in medieval Japan. After earning her PhD in Japanese Studies at Cambridge, Anna Andreeva worked as a postdoctoral, research, and visiting fellow at Harvard’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies (2006­–2007), Girton College at Cambridge (2007–2010), the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken, Kyoto, 2012–2013), Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG, Berlin, 2016), International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (IKGF, University of Erlangen, 2017), and Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” (University of Heidelberg, 2010–2012, 2013–2016; presently Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies). In 2016–2017, she served as an interim chair of Japanese History at the Faculty of East Asian Studies, Ruhr University Bochum, in Germany. During 2017-2021, Anna directed an independent research project “Buddhism, medicine, and gender in the 10^th-16^th century Japan: toward a transcultural history of women’s health in premodern East Asia,” sponsored by the German Research Council (DFG) at the University of Heidelberg. From September 2021, she is starting her new duties as a Research Professor of Japanese Language and Culture at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy at Ghent University.

Jaya Remond received her PhD in Art History from Harvard University. She was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Getty Research Institute, at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome and the Utrecht University (Descartes Senior fellowship). Her scholarly interests include northern European art ca. 1450-1750, the creation and circulation of artistic knowledge through paper tools, as well as questions of visual literacy, at the intersection of art and science. Her work has been supported by grants from Harvard University, the Kress Foundation, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, the Gerda-Henkel Stiftung, and the Max-Planck Gesellschaft.