From Hashtag to Hollywood

Today, we received the great news that the FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) grants a PhD Fellowship to Katrijn Bekers. The next four years, she’ll be working on her research project ‘From Hashtag to Hollywood: Fourth-Wave Feminism and the Representation of Women in Biopics‘, supervised by myself and Sofie Van Bauwel (Ghent University). In this project, Katrijn will study how how the representations of women in recent biopics interact with fourth-wave feminism. We have already started the research for this project since some time, which has resulted in an article on the ‘#MeToo Literary Biopic‘ in Adaptation. I’m very much looking forward to continuing this research and collaboration!