2025
Lisa Heyvaert received honourable mention for the Jeanne Lonnoy Award of Encouragement for Literary Studies with her MA thesis "Suffering in Silence: Trauma Resolution and Care in the Work of Annabel Pitcher" (supervisor: Elisabeth Bekers).
Cedric Van Dijck's Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War (Edinburgh University Press) has won the BCLA (British Comparative Literature Association) First Book Prize 2025, which honours an outstanding first monograph in the field of comparative literature.
2024
Beau Serrus won the 2024 BAAHE award for her MA thesis entitled “‘Minute Puzzled Explorers’: Children, Affect and Class in Katherine Mansfield's ‘The Doll's House’ and ‘The Garden Party’” (supervisors: Birgit Van Puymbroeck & Cedric Van Dijck). This annual prize of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE) is awarded to the best master thesis alternatingly in the field of English literature, cultural studies, linguistics and translation studies.
The Edinburgh Companion to First World War Periodicals (2023), edited by Marysa Demoor (U Gent) and CLIC members Birgit Van Puymbroeck and Cedric Van Dijck, was awarded the 2024 prize of the European Society for Periodical Research. The Companion brings together leading and emerging scholars from various fields to reassess the role and function of the periodical press during the so-called “Greater War”.
2023
Affiliated researcher and CLIC alumna Annelies Augustyns reached the 2023 finals of the Flemish PhD Cup. With 1820 votes (out of 7.700), she convincingly won the audience award in mid-October 2023.
Hayat Boutarbouche obtained the Emile Lorand Award for Literary Studies (French, Italian, Spanish) for her MA thesis entitled "La Déconstruction d’une réception eurocentrée par le biais d’une œuvre fictive dans La Plus Secrète Mémoire des hommes de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr" (supervisor: David Gullentops & Elisabeth Bekers). This prize is awarded annually for the best MA thesis in French, Italian or Spanish obtained at the VUB during the academic year in question.
David Gullentops was appointed as a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB) in December 2023.
Kayra Maes obtained the Multilingual Master Prize for Best Thesis in Literary Studies for her MA thesis entitled "Heroic Communities of Care in the Speculative Children’s Fiction of Yaba Badoe and Patience Agbabi" (Supervisor: Elisabeth Bekers). This prize is awarded annually by the Multilingual Master in Linguistics and Literary Studies at VUB.
2022
Daniel Acke was awarded the ‘Insignes dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académique’ by the French embassy in Belgium. The award is granted to academic scholars who seek to strengthen the bonds and cooperation links between Belgium and France.
Parham Aledavood received the Herman Servotte Prize with his MA thesis "Transgenerational Memory in Bernardine Evaristo’s Lara and Girl, Woman, Other" (supervisor: Elisabeth Bekers) in 2022. The aim of the Herman Servotte Fund (HSF) is the promotion and support of the scholarly study and the public appreciation of literatures in the English language.
2021
Annelies Augustyns won the public vote at VUB’s online doctoral derby with her presentation “Urban Experience in the Third Reich: A Topopoetic Analysis of German-Jewish Autobiographical Literature from Breslau”.
Anthony Manu was awarded the Emile Lorand Award for Literary Studies (French, Italian, Spanish) for his MA thesis entitled "Hacia una teoría de la factualidad ficcional: La verdad en dos autos sacramentales de Calderón de la Barca" (supervisor: Diana Castilleja). This prize is awarded annually for the best MA thesis in French, Italian or Spanish obtained at the VUB during the academic year in question.
Salma Rezzouikia was awarded the Emile Lorand Award for Literary Studies (French, Italian, Spanish). This prize is awarded annually for the best MA thesis in French, Italian or Spanish obtained at the VUB during the academic year in question.
Jade Thomas won the Multilingual Master Award for Literary Studies for her MA thesis entitled "A Posthumanist Perspective on Cultural Industry Representations in Selected Plays by Sam Shepard" (supervisor: Christophe Collard). This prize is awarded annually by the Multilingual Master in Linguistics and Literary Studies at VUB.
2020
Andrea Penso was awarded the 2020 Onderzoeksprijs by the Werkgroep Italië Studies, which annually awards a prize for the best scientific publication in the field of Italy Studies to a researcher working in the Dutch or Flemish academic world. Andrea won the award for his monograph Un libero di Pindo abitator. Stile e linguaggio poetico del giovane Vincenzo Monti (Roma: Aracne, 2018).
Arvi Sepp was awarded the Theodor-Frings prize by the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig and the University of Leipzig. The prize honors Arvi’s achievements in the field of 'interdisziplinäre Germanistik' (interdisciplinary Germanic research).
Jade Thomas won the 2020 BAAHE award for her MA thesis entitled "A Posthumanist Perspective on Cultural Industry Representations in Selected Plays by Sam Shepard" (supervisor: Christophe Collard). This annual prize of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE) is awarded to the best MA thesis alternatingly in the field of English literature, cultural studies, linguistics and translation studies.
2018
David Gullentops received the order of merit of ‘Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques’ bestowed by the French Republic on 26 June 2018.
Helena Van Praet won the 2018 BAAHE award for her MA thesis entitled "Coagulating an Aesthetics of Disjunction: A Semiological Reading of Anne Carson’s Decreation" (supervisor: Cristophe Collard & Douglas Atkinson). This annual prize of the Belgian Association of Anglicists in Higher Education (BAAHE) is awarded to the best master thesis alternatingly in the field of English literature, cultural studies, linguistics and translation studies.
2017
Arvi Sepp received the Annual Science Communication Prize from the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (Brussels, Belgium).
2015
Christian Laes was awarded the 2015 NKV-Homerus prize for his monograph Beperkt? Gehandicapt in het Romeinse Rijk, published by Davidsfonds.
Emeritus CLIC-member Heidy Margrit Müller was awarded the ‘Ehrenkreuz für Wissenschaft und Kunst 1. Klasse’ from the Republic of Austria at the Austrian embassy in Bern (CH).
