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Wim Verbaal is Professor of Latin Language and Literature at Ghent University's Department of Literary Studies within the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. He serves as the responsible person for the Scientific Research Network Literature without Borders and is an active member of multiple research groups including CCROC, CLIV, GEMS, GIKS, HPIMS, HPIMSDH, RELICS, and SARTON. Previously, he served as president of the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies and maintains membership in the International Medieval Latin Committee as well as editorial roles for Corpus Christianorum, Sacris Erudiri, and Toronto Medieval Texts.
Verbaal's research primarily focuses on Latin poetics and its development within medieval literature. His scholarly interests encompass the cosmopolitanism of Latin literature as European literature across medieval and modern periods, the poetics of cosmopolitan literatures, and the emergence and impact of the classical paradigm on modern Europe. He is also an active translator from Latin and publishes extensively on the challenges of translating from cosmopolitan languages. His work spans multiple periods from Antiquity through Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages into the Early Modern period, with geographical focus across Central, Northern, Southern, and Western Europe.
His recent publications demonstrate a consistent focus on Latin literature's role in European intellectual history, language standardization processes in the Middle Ages, and the relationship between classical traditions and contemporary academic practice. Verbaal's scholarship reveals a deep engagement with how literature functions as a transnational medium while simultaneously reflecting local cultural contexts and transformations.
- Member, International Medieval Latin Committee
- Editorial Board, Corpus Christianorum
- Editorial Board, Sacris Erudiri
- Editorial Board, Toronto Medieval Texts
Verbaal has supervised numerous doctoral students to completion, including Jeroen De Gussem, Tim Noens, Dinah Wouters (2019), Maxim Rigaux, Thomas Velle (2018), Stefan Meysman (2016), Stijn Praet (2014), and Lieven Danckaert (2011). His research has been supported through multiple projects including Tacitism in Hugo Grotius's historiography (2021-), Silence as a multifunctional concept in Latin domitianic literature (2015-2019), and the Pirenne consortium for medieval studies (2013-2023).
