Elke D'Hoker

Elke D'hoker is Professor of English Literature at the University of Leuven and Director of the Leuven Centre for Irish Studies. She is the author of a critical study on John Banville (2004) and of Irish Women Writers and the Modern Short Story (2016). She has (co-)edited several essay collections, including Unreliable Narration (2008), Irish Women Writers (2011), Mary Lavin (2013), The Irish Short Story (2015), The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture (2021) and Sarah Hall: Critical Essays (2023). She has also (co-)edited two short story collections: Ethel Colburn Mayne. Selected Stories (2021) and The Writer's Torch: Reading Stories from The Bell (2023). She is vice-president of EFACIS and an editor of RISE: Review of Irish Studies in Europe.