Zoë Ghyselinck

Zoë Ghyselinck is a guest professor of German and Comparative Literature, affiliated with UGent and KU Leuven, and coordinator of the CHARM network (Consortium for Health Humanities, Arts, Reading and Medicine) at Ghent University. Trained as a classical philologist, she earned her PhD in German Literature with a study on the reception of ancient tragedy in the early twentieth century. Her research focuses on the literary imagination of communication with the dead in relation to the development of media technologies, and, in collaboration with social and health scientists, she investigates how literature contributes to our understanding of death and mourning in palliative care.