Marcela Scibiorska

Marcela Scibiorska is part-time Professor in French Literature at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a Postdoctoral Fellow (FNRS) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ReSIC).

Her doctoral thesis, “Les Albums de la Pléiade. Histoire et analyse discursive d’une collection patrimoniale”, studied how author’s image is constructed within a publisher's series combining text and images, and how such intermedial discursive configurations contribute to the shaping of literary heritage. Her post-doctoral research has focused on phototextual countries’ portraits published by the Swiss book club La Guilde du Livre (Université de Lausanne, 2018-2019) and, later, on writers’ visual archives (UCLouvain, 2019-2021). She has also worked as Head of Cultural Mediation at the Wittockiana, Museum for Book Arts and Bookbinding in Brussels.

Beside text/image interactions and the formation of literary heritage, her research interests include exhibitions dedicated to literature and the relationship between literature and advertising, especially in publisher’s discourse, in twentieth-century French and francophone literature. Her current research focuses on publishers’ promotional bulletins in France, Switzerland and Canada.

She has published articles in peer-reviewed journals and co-edited several special issues and books, notably “Patrimonialisations de la littérature” in Culture&Musées, 38 (2021 – with Mathilde Labbé and David Martens), “Quand l’image touche la littérature. Hapticité des rapports icono-poétiques”, Textimage, 16 (2023 – with Corentin Lahouste) and Iconothèques. Collecte, stockage et transmission d’images chez les écrivain.e.s et artistes (XIX-XXIe s.), PU Rennes, (forthcoming – with Jessica Desclaux, Bertrand Gervais, Corentin Lahouste, and Anne Reverseau). She is also Assistant Editor of the journal Image&Narrative, scientific coordinator for the RIMELL research network on the exhibition of books and literature, and co-founder of the research network Patrimonialitté, which studies the formation of literary heritage.