Joris Duytschaever

Joris Duytschaever (16 March 1944 – January 2023) was a Belgian academic. He was professor in English literature at the University Institution Antwerp.

Biography
Duytschaever was born in Merksem in 1944. He studied Germanic philology at the Ghent University He obtained his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He teached in Dutch literature at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Indiana University in the United States. He started working at the University Institution Antwerp in 1972 where he became professor in the English literature. He was guest professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1977 and at the University of Georgia in 1985. Duytschaever was coordinator of the European Studies Program for American students. Duytschaever also ensured cooperation with the "Faculté des Lettres" of the university in the Moroccan capital Rabat.

Duytschaever published on Alfred Döblin, Hugo Claus, Simon Vestdijk, Hella Haasse and various English-language authors including James Joyce and William Faulkner. He translated  of Edmund Husserl from 1977. He published on the  of Hugo Claus.  He was director of the Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire. Together with Geert Lernout he was editor of History and Violence in Anglo-Irish Literature. He was from 1987 co-editor of Post-war Literatures in English. A Lexicon of contemporary Authors. Duytschaever was also editor of the literary magazine . 

Duytschaever had Parkinson He died in January 2023, at the age of 78.

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Category:Belgian academics
Category:1944 births
Category:2023 deaths
Category:Place of death missing