Rate My Professor Bart Eeckhout

Bart Eeckhout is Full Professor of English and American Literature in the Department of Literature at the University of Antwerp. He holds a Ph.D. in American Literature from Ghent University (1998) and an M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University (1991). His academic career includes teaching positions at Ghent University from 1989 to 2005, as a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer at Fordham University in fall 2001, and at the Catholic University of Brussels from 2002 to 2004. He joined the University of Antwerp in fall 2005, advancing to full professor and serving as director of the interuniversity M.A. program in American Studies. Since 2017, Eeckhout has directed the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA), where he chairs the steering group. He is a member of the Class of Humanities of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts (KVAB) and holds positions on multiple university committees, including the Department Council of Literature, the Council of the Antwerp Doctoral School, and various education commissions.

Eeckhout is an internationally recognized expert on the modernist poet Wallace Stevens, having authored or edited seven books on the topic, including Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing (University of Missouri Press, 2002), Wallace Stevens across the Atlantic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), Poetry and Poetics after Wallace Stevens (Bloomsbury, 2016), The Poetic Music of Wallace Stevens (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and The New Wallace Stevens Studies (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Since 2011, he has edited The Wallace Stevens Journal. His research spans modernist poetry, LGBTIQ+ studies and queer theory, urban studies with a focus on New York City, and interdisciplinary connections between literature, philosophy, architecture, and music. He has led projects such as 'Wallace Stevens as a World Poet,' 'Happiness and Agency in Queer Young Adult Literature,' and 'Queer Sounds: Music in Antwerp's LGBT Subculture (1960-2010).' Eeckhout teaches courses like Literary Theory 2, Poetry Lab, Stevens Seminar, Joyce Seminar, and New York City 1880-2020: Cultural History and Literary Representations across bachelor and master programs in linguistics, literature, and translation.