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Sarah De Mul
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Sarah De Mul received her PhD at the University of Amsterdam and previously held a NWO Rubicon fellowship at the University of Leiden. She is currently FWO-Postdoctoral Fellow at K. U. Leuven University and Lecturer at the Open University the Netherlands. De Mul wrote a study of colonialism and memory in contemporary women’s travel writing (Colonial Memory, Amsterdam University Press, 2011) and a Dutch-languagemonograph on multiculturalism in Flanders Een leeuw in een kooi. (Meulenhoff-Manteau, 2009, together with K. Arnhaut, S. Bracke, B. Ceuppens, N. Fadil; M. Kanmaz). She is co-editor of Commitment and Complicity in Cultural Theory and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, with B. O. Firat and S. van Wichelen) and Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2012, with W. Behschnitt and L. Minnaard). Her publications and research interests are situated in the field of comparative postcolonial studies with a particular focus on literatures in Dutch and English. Her current projects explore postcolonialism and transnationalism in the Low Countries, migrant writing in Flanders and European (colonial) writing about Africa/the Congo during the fin de siècle.