Rik van Gorp, born in Herentals, Belgium, in 1935. Ph.D. from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Professor of General and Comparative Literature at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Fellow (1 September 1992 – 30 June 1993)
During my stay at NIAS, I studied the reception of the English Gothic Novel (1765-1820) in the Netherlands as part of a larger research program: the Gothic Novel in Western Europe