Academic profile
Rita De Maeseneer is Professor of Spanish American Literature and Culture at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) since 1998. She is specialized in Caribbean hispanic literature and its diaspora. She has published El festín de Alejo Carpentier. Una lectura culinario-intertexual (2003), Encuentro con la narrativa dominicana contemporánea(2006), Seis ensayos sobre narrativa dominicana contemporánea (2011), Devorando a lo cubano. Una aproximación gastrocrítica a textos relacionados con el siglo XIX y el Período Especial (2012). She has supervised four Ph.D. projects, two of which have been completed. She is co-author of Ocho veces Luis Rafael Sánchez (2008). She is editor of the book serie Foro Hispánico (Rodopi) and Review Editor of the journal Iberoamericana. She is member of the Research Group of Literature and Modernity (University of Antwerp). She directed various research projects and currently she is the director of a research project with Ilse Logie on canon and the Hispanic Caribbean, Argentina and Chili.