

Valérie Leyh
About
Biography
Valérie Leyh is an Assistant Professor of German literature at the University of Namur and the Erasmus coordinator for the Faculty of Arts. Her research focuses on literature from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, with a particular interest in the poetics of rumours, women authors and their literary networks, cultural transfers and the materiality of literature.
As a F.R.S.-FNRS doctoral fellow (2011-2015), she presented a PhD devoted to rumours as a narrative technique. The work was published under the title Geräusch, Gerücht, Gerede. Formen und Funktionen der Fama in Erzähltexten Theodor Storms und Arthur Schnitzlers (Erich Schmidt, 2016). Since becoming a postdoctoral researcher of the F.R.S.-FNRS (2015-2017), she has also focused her research on eighteenth-century literature and in particular on the writings of women authors. As part of this research, she has co-edited a collective volume on Elisa von der Recke as well as a thematic issue of the journal Cahiers d'Etudes Germaniques on the European reception of moral fictions.
Through the course she teaches on the role of books in digital culture, she regularly collaborates with the Moretus Plantin University Library and is involved in the project about the collection of editions printed by Christophe Plantin.
Faculties/Departments/Services
Research institutes
Research center
Organs
Domains of expertise
- Literature of German realism and Austrian modernism
- Eighteenth-century literature and culture
- Narratology and the poetics of rumours
- Literary networks, epistolary and autobiographical writing
- Cultural transfers (particularly Franco-German)
External responsibilities
- Co-director of ModerNum, FNRS contact group, network of French-speaking modernists in Belgium - https://modernum.hypotheses.org/
- Member of the editorial board of the journal Interférences littéraires - http://www.interferenceslitteraires.be/
- Member of the committee of the Theodor-Storm-Gesellschaft - http://www.storm-gesellschaft.de/
- Member of the Internationale Raabe-Gesellschaft
- Member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts - http://dgej.hab.de
- Member of the Lessing Academy - http://www.lessing-akademie.de
- Member of the Belgischer Germanisten- und Deutschlehrerverband (BGDV) - http://bgdv.be/
Degrees
- 2015 - Doctorate in Languages and Literature, University of Liège
- 2010 - Agrégation de l'enseignement secondaire supérieur (as part of the didactic Master's programme), Université de Liège
- 2010 - Master's degree in Modern Languages and Literature (German - Italian), University of Liège
2025-2026
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Bachelorarbeit deutsche Literaturwissenschaft [LALLB306]
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Le livre et la culture numérique [LLETB001]
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Klassiker der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Überblick und Neuentdeckungen [LALLB204]
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Introduction à l'histoire et à la culture des pays germanophones [LALLB103]
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Literatur und Musik. Deutschsprachige Texte lesen, hören und analysieren [LALLB104]
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Schreiben über Europa [LALLB205]
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Literatur und Populärkultur [LALLB303]
2024-2025
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Bachelorarbeit deutsche Literaturwissenschaft [LALLB306]
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Le livre et la culture numérique [LLETB001]
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Geschichte der deutschen Literatur [LALLB204]
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Introduction à la culture germanophone [LALLB103]
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Literarische Textanalyse I : Prosa und Lyrik [LALLB104]
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Literarische Textanalyse II : Drama und Prosa [LALLB205]
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Literaturen der Welt [LALLB303]
2023-2024
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Bachelorarbeit deutsche Literaturwissenschaft [LALLB306]
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Le livre et la culture numérique [LLETB001]
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Geschichte der deutschen Literatur I (800-1700) [LALLB103]
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Geschichte der deutschen Literatur II (1700-heute) [LALLB204]
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Literarische Textanalyse I : Prosa und Lyrik [LALLB104]
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Literarische Textanalyse II : Drama und Prosa [LALLB205]
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Literaturen der Welt [LALLB303]