Bénédicte Ledent

Bénédicte Ledent is honorary professor from the University of Liège, where she taught anglophone literatures until 2021. She is also a member of the postcolonial research group CEREP, which she directed from 2009 to 2019. Her research interests include Caribbean and Black British literatures, biographical fiction, slavery novels as well as the representation of madness in literature. She has published extensively on the work of Caryl Phillips and other contemporary writers of the Caribbean diaspora. She is co-editor, with Delphine Munos, of the book series Cross/Cultures (Brill). Her most recent publication is an edited collection of Caryl Phillips’s radio plays (Methuen, 2023).