Nathalie
Roelens
Prof. Dr. Nathalie Roelens is professor in literary theory at the University of Luxembourg and member of the research unit "Identities, Politics, Societies, Spaces". She worked as a lecturer or a visiting professor in several universities (Antwerp, Louvain, Gand, Nijmegen).
At the University of Luxembourg, she is course director of the Master in Secondary Education, https://wwwen.uni.lu/formations/flshase/master_en_enseignement_secondaire (French section). She has also been the spokesperson of the Key research Area (MIS: Migration and Intercultural Studies) for three years (2016-2018). Her recent works focus on travel literature, geocriticism and urban semiotics.
She published amongst other:
- Le lecteur, ce voyeur absolu (1998), 433 p.,
- Éloge du dépaysement. Du voyage au tourisme (2015), 238 p.
She edited or coedited the collectives:
- Jacques Derrida et l'esthétique (2000),119 p.,
- Homo orthopedicus (2001), 525 p.,
- L'imaginaire de l'écran (2004), 264 p.,
- Lire, écrire, pratiquer la ville (2016), 364 p.,
- Visages. Histoires, représentations, créations, (2017) 410 p.,
- Das Paradigma der Interkulturalität. Themen und Positionen in europäischen Literaturwissenschaften (2017), 197 p.
- Chorographies. La mise en discours de la ville (2017), 94 p.,
- La sémiotique en interface (2018), 690 p., La sémiotique et son autre (2019), 654 p.
She is member of the international partnership Erasmus+ "Reading in Europe Today" http://lea.letras.ulisboa.pt and member of IAWIS (International Associate for Word & Image Studies) whose next triennial conference she will organize at the University of Luxembourg, entitled "Sea and Water in Word and Image" (5th-10th July 2020).
See https://waterandsea2020.uni.lu