Ilse Logie

Ilse Logie is a Professor of Latin American Studies at Ghent University (Department of Literary Studies). A first topic that is central to her work is related to the production, circulation and reception of contemporary Latin American literature in global markets. She is the chair of the Research Group “Centre for Literature in translation” (CLIV, Ghent University and University of Brussels). The group’s research objectives focus on the role of translation in the cultural transfer of knowledge, ideas, ideologies, norms and values as well as aesthetic procedures in fiction and non-fiction. In the examined corpora, this transfer and reinterpretation of cultural codes mainly manifests itself in a poetics of multilingualism and interculturality.

Her second field of research deals with the representation of different types of violence within contemporary Latin American narratives (especially in Argentina and Chile), on which she has produced numerous publications.