Bart Soethaert

Bart Soethaert is a Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” (EXC 2020) and a postdoctoral researcher in Modern Greek Studies and Digital Scholarship at the Institute of Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures, Freie Universität Berlin. He received his Ph.D. in Modern Greek Studies from Freie Universität Berlin (2017), writing on the historical novels legacy of Angelos Terzakis, Pandelis Prevelakis, and Thanassis Petsalis, having previously obtained postgraduate degrees in Classical Philology and Modern Greek (UGent, 2004), Comparative Literature (KU Leuven, 2006), and Modern Greek Philology (AUTH, 2008). His monograph “The Turn to Present/Past: Horizons of the Historical Novel (1935–1950) in Greece” (Edition Romiosini, 2018) was awarded the Prize for Best Dissertation by the European Society of Modern Greek Studies. From 2014 to 2018, he was the project manager for the conception and design of the IT infrastructure of the Center for Modern Greece (CeMoG), including the Online Library of Edition Romiosini (edition-romiosini.de) at the Center for Digital Systems (CeDiS). Additionally, from 2018 to 2020, he designed the digital platform for the “Online Compendium on German-Greek Entanglements” (comdeg.eu) at CeMoG and coordinated the application development with the Open Encyclopedia System (oes.digital).

Since 2019, he has served as the Academic Coordinator and, since October 2023, as a Moderator of Research Area 5 “Building Digital Communities” of EXC 2020. Apart from his research on the global reception of Nikos Kazantzakis (1946–1988), he currently coordinates the functional and technical development of the “Living Handbook of Temporal Communities” and contributes to the remediation of the Cluster’s core concepts and methods in the digital domain. In 2022, he conducted a seminar on “Digital Remediations: The Cavafy Files” at the International Cavafy Summer School “Cavafy Mediated.”