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Abigael van Alst is a postdoctoral researcher at the Art History Institute at NOVA FCSH. She obtained her PhD in 2023 (KU Leuven) with a thesis entitled: “Avant-Garde Cosmogonies: World Creation and the Gesamtkunstwerk in the Early Twentieth Century Avant-Garde.” Her current research project studies the neo-avant-garde within a global context and focuses on cultural geographies and maps put forth in the second half of the twentieth century by artists and writers who were operating outside of the traditional Euro-American centres of cultural power. She has published in Fabula LHT, and in De Gruyter’s book series on Comparative studies (Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft), and European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Abigael Van Alst

Citation names

  • van Alst, Abigael

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
241A-9B25-B225
ORCID iD
0000-0003-4653-852X

Email addresses

  • avalst@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Art history
  • Humanities - Languages and Literatures - General Literature Studies
Education
Degree Classification
2019/01/01 - 2023/06/23
Concluded
 Literature (Doctor)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Onderzoekseenheid Literatuurwetenschap, Belgium
"Avant-Garde Cosmogonies: World Creation and the Gesamtkunstwerk in the Early Twentieth Century Avant-Garde" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2015/10/01 - 2018/10/17
Concluded
 Literary Studies: Literature Aesthetics Philosophy (Master)
Europa-Universität Viadrina Kulturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Germany
"The Inextricable Tension Between the Symbol and the Allegory: A Paradox at the Heart of Baudelairian Aesthetics" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2012/09/01 - 2015/09/17
Concluded
 French-German Studies (Licence)
Major in French literature and German
Sorbonne Université UFR de Littérature Française et de Littérature Comparée, France

Université Paris-Sorbonne UFR d¿Etudes Germaniques et Nordiques, France

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn Abteilung fur Romanistik, Germany

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn Institut für Germanistik Vergleichende Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, Germany
"Stefan Zweig and Romain Rolland’s Vision of Europe in their Correspondence between 1914 and 1915" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/01/01 - 2025/01/01 Postdoc (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Historia da Arte, Portugal
2023/07/01 - 2024/01/01 Postdoc (Research) Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Faculteit Letteren, Belgium
2021/09/01 - 2021/12/01 Visiting Researcher (Research) Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
Royal Holloway University of London Department of Languages Literatures and Cultures, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2024/01/01 - 2025/01/01 Decolonizing the Avant-Garde: The Aesthetic Imagination of Global Cultural Geographies in the non-Western Avant-Garde
(no number associated)
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Historia da Arte, Portugal
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2023/01/01 Literary Knowledge (1890-1950): Modernisms and the Sciences in Europe
(no number associated)
PhD Student Fellow
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Faculteit Letteren, Belgium
 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Onderzoeksraad
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. van Alst, Abigael. "Recounting the Myth of World Creation. On 'La création du monde' by Blaise Cendrars, Fernand Léger, Darius Milhaud and Jean Börlin". In The International Yearbook of Futurism Studies: Futurism and Primitivism. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter, 2025.
    Accepted
  2. van Alst, Abigael. "Die Kosmogonie der Gläsernen Kette". In Kosmische Räume. All-Imaginationen in der kulturellen Landschaft, edited by Katharina Scheerer; Sophie-C. Hartisch. Hannover, Germany: Wehrhahn-Verlag., 2024.
    Accepted
  3. Abigael Van Alst. "The Glass Chain’s Spiritual Revolution". edited by Bru, S; Kangaslahti, K; Lin, L; Slavkova, I; Ayers, D, 461-479. De Gruyter, 2022.
    10.1515/9783110773637
  4. Abigael Van Alst; Jakob Christoph Heller; Erik Martin; Sebastian Schönbeck. "Zwischen Anschein und Verborgenheit. Eine allegorische Lektüre von Charles Baudelaires Die Maske". edited by Heller, JC; Martin, E; Schönbeck, S, 205-221. De Gruyter, 2021.
    10.1515/9783110686197
Book review
  1. van Alst, Abigael. "Repairing man. The crisis of humanity and the new man of the avant-gardes of the Great War (1909-1929) by Iveta Slavkova". (2022): http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2\&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP\&SrcAuth=LinksAMR\&KeyUT=WOS:000744712200001\&DestLinkType=FullRecord\&DestApp=ALL_WOS\&UsrCustomerID=ef845e08c439e550330acc77c7d2d848.
    10.1080/10848770.2022.2029175
  2. van Alst, Abigael. "Poésie et Cosmologie dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle. Nouvelle mythologie de la nuit à l¿ère du positivisme by Elsa Courant". 89, (2022):
    Published
Journal article
  1. Abigael Van Alst. "Kosmogonie en literaire filmkunst in Blaise Cendrars’ en Fernand Légers La fin du monde filmée par l’ange N.D.". Handelingen der Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiedenis 74 (2022): 135-146.
    10.21825/kzm.85260
  2. Jan Baetens; Sascha Bru; Abigael Van Alst. "Entre expérimentation poétique et savoir scientifique : sur la vérité de la littérature, 1890-1950. Entretien avec Sascha Bru et Abigael van Alst (MDRN)". Fabula LHT 24 (2020): 1-7. https://www.fabula.org/lht/24/mdrn.html.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Avant-Garde Cosmogonies: World Creation and the Gesamtkunstwerk in the Early Twentieth Century Avant-Garde". 2023.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/04/19 Construire un art nouveau: le groupe Aouchem et sa posture géocritique Géocritique des espaces littéraires et artistiques francophones
McGill University (Montréal, Canada)
2023/09/20 A New World in n-Dimensions: Aleksei Kruchenykh, Velimir Khlebnikov, Kazimir Malevich and Mikhail Matiushin's Victory Over the Sun 1913 Uses of Modernism
Universiteit Gent (Belgium)
2022/09/02 Recounting the Myth of World Creation. On "La création du monde" by Blaise Cendrars, Fernand Leger, Darius Milhaud and Jean Börlin. Globalising the Avant-Garde
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (EAM) (Portugal)
2022/05/23 Poème Electronique. Le Corbusier’s, Iannis Xenakis’ and Edgar Varèse’s "Philips Pavilion" (1958). Revisiting the Avant-Garde Total Work of Art
KU Leuven (Belgium)
2021/05/12 The Architecture of the World. A Cosmogonic Reading of Bruno Taut’s "Der Weltbaumeister". Narrations of Origins in World Cultures and the Arts
Università degli Studi di Torino (European Society of Comparative Literature ) (Italy)
2019/09/11 From Physical- to Human Relativity? Hausmann and Lawrence’s Provocative Responses to Einstein.
Observatoire de Paris (ESHS European Society for the History of Science) (France)
2019/06/20 Cosmological Time/Space Disruption in Cendrars' "La fin du monde filmée par l'ange N.D" Troublesome Modernisms
St Bride Foundation/King's College London (United Kingdom)
2018/07/19 Über das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen dem Symbol und der Allegorie in Charles Baudelaires "Les Fleurs du mal". Ding und Bild in der europäischen Romantik
Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder (Germany)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022/05/23 - 2022/05/24 Revisiting the Avant-Garde Total Work of Art (2022/05/23 - 2022/05/25)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Faculteit Letteren, Belgium

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2019/01/01 - Current BAMS: British Association for Modernist Studies
2019/01/01 - Current EAM: European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies
Distinctions

Other distinction

2024 Post-Doctoral Research grant (BIPD) in Art History
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Historia da Arte, Portugal
2019 PhD Scholarship
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Onderzoeksraad, Belgium
2014 Mobility grant
Deutsch-Französische Hochschule, Germany