• Literature and Gender
• Literature, Authority and Authorship
• Network Analysis of early modern Cultural Agents
• Literary Translation and Pseudotranslation
• Francophone Literature and/in Translation in the eighteenth-century Low Countries

Recent projects

• Sabbatical Beatrijs Vanacker: . Literature’s forms and functions in the eighteenth-century Southern Low Countries: migration, multilingualism and mediation (01/09/2026 - 30/08/2027) - Promotor
• "Putting translators on the map. Strategies of paratextual (self-)representation in literary French/Dutch translations in the Low Countries (1815-1860 | 1990-2020)" (01/01/2026 - 31/12/2029) - Promotor
• Arcadia's Lettered Ladies: Re-evaluating Intellectual Peripheries through Women’s Enlightenment Correspondence (1766-1800) (01/11/2025 - 31/10/2029) - Promotor
• “A Country with Literati but No Literature”? The relational dynamics of networks, languages, and genres in proto-Belgian literature (1795-1830) (01/11/2024 - 31/10/2027) - Promotor
• Making the Cut: Collective Biographies and the Shaping of Collective Female Intellectual Authority in Enlightenment Europe (01/11/2023 - 13/11/2027) - Co-promotor
• A Thousand Tongues: Paratextual Visibility of Literary Translators in the Eighteenth-Century Northern Netherlands (22/11/2021 - 26/01/2026) - Promotor
• Found in Translation: Translators and the Construction of Literary Authority in the Eighteenth-Century Low Countries (01/10/2021 - 30/09/2025) - Promotor
• « Un faible vernis français » ? Multilingual Practices, Cultural Transfers, and Media Poetics in the Literary Journals of the Southern Netherlands (1815-1830)  « Un faible vernis français » ? Meertalige praktijken, culturele transfers en mediapoëtica in literaire tijdschriften van de Zuidelijke Nederlanden (1815-1830) (01/11/2020 - 06/09/2024) - Promotor
• The many Voices of Female Authorship. Strategic Multilingualism in Life Writing and the Shaping of Female Authorship and Authority in the Age of Enlightenment.' (01/11/2020 - 12/12/2025) - Promotor
• Patchworks in Print: Cultural Community Building and the Shaping of a “Belgian” Reading Public in Literary Journals (1750-1800) (15/10/2020 - 18/12/2024) - Co-promotor

Recent publications

• launch Waeyaert, M., Vanacker, B. (sup.), van Deinsen, L. (sup.) (2026). A Thousand Tongues: Paratextual Visibility of Literary Translators in the Eighteenth-Century Northern Netherlands.
• launch Jaques, A., Vanacker, B. (sup.), D'hulst, L. (cosup.), van Deinsen, L. (cosup.) (2025). Portraits plurilingues : formes et fonctions du plurilinguisme dans les correspondances de femmes auteures au siècle des Lumières.
• launch Vanacker, B., Taylor, H. (2025). Literatures. In: R. Clements (Eds.), A Cultural History of Translation in the Construction of the Global World (16th-late 18th c. CE), Chapt. 6, (101-101). Bloomsbury. ISBN: 9781350171800.
• launch Vanacker, B. (2025). Scholar@school: Lire les récits brefs. VMS Roeselare,
• launch Vanacker, B., Taylor, H., Cox Jensen, F. (2025). Introduction: Early Modern Actors of Translation. Perspectives-Studies In Translation Theory And Practice, 33 (2), Art.No. 1, 1-5. via repository
• launch Vanacker, B., Vanacker, B., Taylor, H., Cox Jensen, F. (Eds.) (2025). Early Modern Actors of Translation. (Special issue of Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, 33 (2)). Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice.
• launch Vanacker, B. (2025). Scholar@School: La littérature comme émancipation. À l’écoute des voix de femmes auteures. Sint-Pieterscollege, Jette,
• launch Vanacker, B., De Vos, W. (2025). La princesse de Clèves. KBR,
• launch Vanacker, B. (2025). Lire les récits brefs en classe. Comment et pourquoi? Presented at the Dag van Frans, Kortrijk, 04 Feb 2025.
• launch Vanacker, B. (2025). Scholar@school. Lire le récit bref en classe. Zaventem,