Valérie Leyh

After terms as a F.R.S.-FNRS aspirant (2011-2015) and F.R.S.-FNRS research fellow (2015-2017) at the University of Liège, Valérie Leyh has been a lecturer in German-language literature at the University of Namur since 2017. She is also the Erasmus coordinator for the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. Her research focuses on literature from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, with a particular interest in the poetics of rumours, literary networks, cultural transfers and the materiality of literature. Her doctoral thesis on rumours as a narrative technique was published in 2016 under the title Geräusch, Gerücht, Gerede. Formen und Funktionen der Fama in Erzähltexten Theodor Storms und Arthur Schnitzlers in the Husumer Beiträge zur Storm-Forschung series published by Erich Schmidt. As part of her research on the eighteenth century, she has co-edited a collective volume on Elisa von der Recke, a writer and epistolary writer of the Enlightenment, as well as a thematic issue of the journal Cahiers d'Etudes Germaniques on the European reception of moral fictions.