Research team
Expertise
Reindert Dhondt lectures on Hispanic literatures. His research focuses on contemporary Latin American literature, with special interests in decolonial thought, material heritage, and intermediality. His expertise lies in discourse analysis, memory studies, and affect theory. His current research deals with the representation of violence in Latin American culture, as well as the complex relationship between the museum and literary fiction. His work engages with the ethics of representation and questions of restitution and reparation, drawing on museum studies, visual studies, and anthropology. His teaching is closely informed by these themes, encouraging students to critically examine cultural narratives and historical legacies. His book Carlos Fuentes y el pensamiento barroco (Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2015) is the first systematic study of the Baroque in the work of Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes. Recent edited works include Afectos y violencias en la cultura latinoamericana (Iberoamericana Vervuert, 2022), Transnacionalidad e hibridez en el ensayo hispánico. Un género sin orillas (Brill, 2016), and a special issue on affective arrangements and violence in Latin America for the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (2023).