Rate My Professor Inge Lanslots

Professor Inge Lanslots serves as associate professor of Italian culture in the Research Unit of Translation Studies at KU Leuven's Faculty of Arts, teaching Italian culture and translation at the Antwerp campuses. She obtained her licenciate in Romance Philology and certificate in Italian Studies from the University of Antwerp, followed by a PhD fellowship from the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). In 1998, she defended her PhD dissertation entitled ‘Gli orologi molli’: la narrativa italiana contemporanea e la conoscenza del tempo, a close analysis of time problematization in contemporary Italian authors' works drawing on Ricoeur’s tales of time. Her early research centered on Italian literature, expanding to intermedial forms such as comics, graphic novels, documentary film, and street art. Since 2010, her scholarship has focused on cultural memory representations in narratives addressing antimafia themes, migration, 1968 events, Italy’s Years of Lead, and the 2001 Genoa G8 protests including Carlo Giuliani.

Lanslots holds the position of campus vice-dean for research in the Faculty of Arts and is a member of the Faculty Council and Advisory Committee for Teaching Staff. She co-supervises the ÉXODOCS project on Latin American migration in U.S. documentaries and promotes initiatives like LASTING on affiliative postgeneration bio-graphics in context, alongside a sabbatical project on cultural memory in visual arts. Notable publications include co-edited books Noir de Noir: un’indagine pluridisciplinare (Peter Lang, 2010), Multilingualism and Cultural Transfer (Cadernos de Traduçao, Vol. 40, 2020), and Women on the Move (KU Leuven, 2025). She edits the Moving Texts/Testi mobili series for Peter Lang and served as co-editor of Incontri: Rivista europea di studi italiani until 2022. Her work influences translation studies and cultural memory scholarship through PhD supervision, public lectures on graphic novels, and contributions to interdisciplinary panels.