Between August and December 2025, four grant writing residents at CLIC will develop postdoctoral fellowship applications for the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) and/or the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), supported by the broad and diverse expertise available at CLIC. We are excited to welcome them as writing residents and look forward to seeing their projects take shape.
Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim
Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature in the Core Humanities Program at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. She specializes in cultural trauma and memory studies, postcolonial theory, Anglophone literatures—particularly Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East—and the environmental and blue humanities. A Fulbright Fellow, she received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Washington University in St. Louis. From 2021 to 2023, she was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Sabancı University, where she led a major project on climate witnessing in the literary and visual cultures of the Mediterranean. Deniz’s research examines how twentieth- and twenty-first-century Anglophone literatures mobilize the ecological imagination as a form of counter-memory, tracing affective and archival residues of colonial and decolonial histories across fractured geographies. Her work has appeared in Journal of World Literature, Safundi, Memory Studies, Scrutiny2, and in edited volumes including Mapping World Anglophone Studies, Subaltern Women’s Narratives, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma, and Ecologies of Turkish Literature and Film. She also serves on the Management Committee of the EU-funded COST Action project Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change. She is currently completing her first monograph, Slow Trauma and Environment in Anglophone World Literature, and developing a new project that explores how trees and forests function as living archives of ecological, historical, and ancestral memory in post-1990s Anglophone African literatures and arts, with an emphasis on multimodal forms of storytelling.
Alice Lacoue-Labarthe
Alice Lacoue-Labarthe obtained her BA and her MA in German studies at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, with a thesis on the translation and mediation work of the Syrian-German author Suleman Taufiq. She was an exchange scholar at the Free University of Berlin, at the University of Potsdam and at Harvard University. In addition, she successfully passed the competitive examination for teachers (agrégation) in 2019 and graduated from the École Normale Supérieure in 2021, with a minor in Arabic studies. She also works as a literary translator and participated in the Goldschmidt program for young literary translators in 2021. In September 2021, she started a PhD under the supervision of Christine Meyer (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) and Arvi Sepp (VUB). Her dissertation project focuses on the “Poetics of German-language exile literature in the context of the ‘refugee crisis’”.
Eugenia Maria Rossi
Hadas Zahavi
Hadas Zahavi is the Founding Director of Columbia University Global Center for Peace Innovation (https://peacecenter.french.columbia.edu), where she leads an interdisciplinary lab, pedagogical hub, and contemporary art gallery. Positioned at the intersection of peace studies, contemporary Francophone literature, and media theory, her research examines how the modern image of peace is shaped within nations that define themselves as “peaceful” while being deeply entangled in war; through the arms trade, military interventions, inherited trauma, and militarized pollution, and how contemporary literature respond to these realities by creating new forms of witnessing and resistance. This work culminates in her forthcoming book Comment témoigner d’une guerre qu’on n’a pas vécue (Hermann, 2025), developed from her doctoral research at Sorbonne Nouvelle–THALIM–CNRS–TAU and her Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University, with related articles published in journals such as Oxford French Studies, Genre, and Memory, Mind & Media (Cambridge University Press).