Merel Waeyaert is a PhD student at the department of Literary Studies of KU Leuven. She obtained her Master’s degree in Historical Languages and Literature (2021) from Ghent University. She is currently working on the project “Found in Translation: Translators and the Construction of Literary Authority in the 18th-Century Low Countries”. The aims of this project are the reappreciation of translations within the literary landscape of the Southern and Northern Netherlands, and the examination of the performativity of authorship and authority in the eighteenth century. Merel’s further interests include book history, writer development, and medieval and early modern intertextuality, translation and adaptation.