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Cedric Van Dijck is an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), affiliated with the Linguistics and Literature Study Center and the Study Center for Literary and Intermedial Crossings. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of European Periodical Studies and was elected to the Flemish Young Academy in 2024. His research focuses on media history, modernism, colonial book history, and the role of periodicals in British Empire contexts. Key projects include the ERC-funded AFROPRESS initiative examining Sub-Saharan Africa’s cultural magazines (1918–68) and the FWOTM1097 project on modernism and bureaucracy in colonial Africa.
Van Dijck’s work spans author studies (Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster), material culture, and transnational periodical networks. He has authored Modernism, Material Culture and the First World War (2023) and co-edited major companions on World War I periodicals. His recent publications analyze African diaspora journals, Black internationalism, and modernist bureaucracy in colonial contexts. He has received awards including the ESPRit Prize (2024) and fellowships from the Flemish Research Foundation and Belgian American Educational Foundation.
- Key Projects:
- AFROPRESS (ERC-funded, 2025–29)
- Paperwork: Modernism and Bureaucracy (2022–24)
- Diaspora Journals in Western Europe (2025–29)
- Recent Articles:
- Out of Africa: Nat Nakasa's Exit Paperwork (2025)
- Empire (Brill Handbook, 2024)
- Happy Returns? E.M. Forster's Centenaries (TLS, 2024)
- Awards:
- ESPRit Prize (2024)
- Essay Prize, British Association for Modernist Studies (2015)
- Labs/Teams: Leads AFROPRESS research group and collaborates with international institutions like Yale University and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
