Yves T’Sjoen is full professor of modern Dutch and Afrikaans literature (Department of Literary Studies) and affiliated researcher in the Departments of Languages & Cultures, and Translation, Interpretation & Communication at Ghent University. He is Chair of the research group, Gents Centrum voor het Afrikaans en de Studie van Zuid-Afrika (UGent) and coordinator of the Chair Zuid-Afrika: Talen, Literaturen, Cultuur en Maatschappij at UGent. He is involved in the research groups Teksteditie, Literatuur in Vlaanderen, POWEZIE. Centrum voor Poëzie and TRACE (Translation & Culture). In addition, he is extraordinary professor in the Department of Afrikaans and Dutch at Stellenbosch University and research fellow in the Department of Afrikaans and Literary Theory at UNISA (Pretoria). In 2021 he was elected a member of the Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal en Letteren, and in 2024 appointed as foreign member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. In 2024 he was also appointed as a research fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study.
He is the author of, among others, the essay collections Breyvier. Over taal, burgerschap en Breytenbach (2023) and De ontdekking van het eiland. breytenbachiana (2025), which flank the academic collection, Kwintet. Literaire dialogen tussen Afrikaans en Nederlands (2023). On intercultural literary discourses between Afrikaans and Dutch, he has collected case studies in Over grenzen / Oor grense (2009, with Ronel Foster and Thomas Vaessens), Toenadering (2011, with Ronel Foster) and Rakeling(s) (2017). In 2026, Twee overzijden. Gesprekken op de literaire brug tussen Afrikaans en Nederlands (Academia Press) will be published.
Contact: Yves.Tsjoen@UGent.be
