Emma-Louise Silva

Emma-Louise Silva is an Assistant Professor of English Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Namur and affiliated researcher at the University of Antwerp, based in Belgium. As a member of the Centre for Manuscript Genetics, she defended her PhD on James Joyce and cognition in 2019. She has published articles on an array of Joyce-related topics, and she has co-edited two journal volumes on Joyce and modernism. Emma-Louise was a postdoctoral researcher aboard the project ‘Constructing Age for Young Readers’, funded by the European Research Council (ERC). Her following project, ‘The Paper Traces of Reimagined Memories’, was funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO). Her articles have appeared in the European Journal of Life Writing, in Age, Culture, Humanities, and in Literature, among others. She has published a monograph, Modernist Minds: Materialities of the Mental in the Works of James Joyce (2023), and she has co-authored Age in David Almond’s Oeuvre: A Multi-Method Approach to Studying Age and the Life Course in Children’s Literature (2023). She is a member of the editorial board for Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. Her current research investigates memory, imagination, cognitive neuroscience, and life writing.