Affiliation: KU Leuven
Keywords: Migration, collaborative writing, multilingualism, comparative literature, translation
Full profile: Núria Codina Solà is Assistant Professor of Transnational and Multilingual Literatures in a European Context at KU Leuven. She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project “COLLAB: Making Migrant Voices Heard through Literature. How Collaboration is Changing the Cultural Field” (2023-2028), which looks at a wide array of collaborative practices across Europe that create spaces for literary participation of migrants. Her previous research, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), studied the role of refugee writing as well as multilingualism and minor languages in contemporary world literature. Núria received a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Tübingen and is the author of Verflochtene Welten. Transkulturalität in den Werken von Najat El Hachmi, Pius Alibek, Emine Sevgi Özdamar und Feridun Zaimoglu (2018). She has also published in journals such as Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Research in African Literatures and Textual Practice. Before joining KU Leuven, Núria taught at the University of Barcelona and the Institute for European Studies at Chemnitz University of Technology. She has also worked as an editorial fellow for Words Without Borders, New York’s magazine for international literature in translation.