Kris Van Heuckelom

Kris Van Heuckelom is an assistant professor of Polish Language and Literature at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. His main research interests include contemporary Polish literature, visual culture, translation studies, and Polish-Jewish relations. His most recent book is "(Un)masking Bruno Schulz. New Combinations, Further Fragmentations, Ultimate Reintegrations" (Rodopi 2009, co-edited with Dieter De Bruyn). Other books include "Perspectives on Slavic Literatures" (Pegasus 2005, co-edited with David Danaher) and "Looking at Light Reflected by the Earth. Visuality in the Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz" (Polish Academy of Sciences 2004, in Polish). He is currently preparing a conference and a book project on the image of Central and East European migrants in post-1989 European cinema (www.transnationalsubjects.eu).