GEMS News & Congrats – November

  • Ruben Celani is appointed as Postdoctoral Research Associate in Italian Studies and Zahm Dante Collection Curatorial Fellow at the University of Notre Dame (USA, IN) (2025-26). He also published an article ‘”Come parto imperfetto” : Paratexts and Organization in a Sixteenth-Century Book of Secrets’ in Renaissance Studies.
  • Eleonora Serra, postdoc in linguistic studies, won a Senior FWO Fellowship at UGent (2025-28)
  • Denise Brazzale received her PhD degree in Italian Language and Literature (Fribourg University, Switzerland), and won a postdoc “assegno di ricerca” at University of Chieti-Pescara, Dipartimento di studi umanistici (2025-26) and a BOF postdoc Fellowship at UGent (2026-29).
  • Lies Verbaere won a BOF postdoc Fellowship at UGent and a FNRS postdoc Fellowship (2026-29).
  • Maxim Rigaux won a Ramón y Cajal postdoc Fellowship at the University of Seville, Spain (Fall 2026).