Marjolein Goethals

Marjolein Goethals holds a BA in Linguistics and Literature: Dutch and English (2018), an MA in Comparative Modern Literature (2019), and an MA in Teaching in Languages: Dutch and English (2020). She obtained all three degrees at Ghent University. During her Bachelor’s degree, she briefly studied at The University of Sheffield as an exchange student. As part of her Master’s degree, she interned at the ERC Starting Grant project “Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920”, directed by Prof. Dr. Marianne Van Remoortel, who also supervised her thesis on Victorian ghost stories’ critical engagement with gender roles. She joined the MERLIT research group at VUB in June 2024 as a PhD student. Her research, supervised by Prof. Dr. Eva Ulrike Pirker, focuses on nineteenth-century female travelogues that position themselves within meritocratic narratives.