Theo D’haen, Ph.D. (1981), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA, is Emeritus Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the universities of Leuven and Leiden. Numerous publications on (post)modernism, (post)colonialism, and world literature. Recent English-language publications include, a.o., A History of World Literature (Routledge, 2024), World Literature in an Age of Geopolitics (Brill, 2021), and The Routledge Companion to World Literature, Second Edition (Routledge, 2022, ed. with D. Damrosch and D. Kadir)