Kwinten Van De Walle

Kwinten Van De Walle is a lecturer at the School of English Studies. He is a former junior post-doctoral fellow of the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation and was a research fellow at the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. His research predominantly focuses on eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature, illustration, and print culture. His current research focuses on illustrations of Oliver Goldsmith’s literary works (1766-1845).

Research/Teaching Interests：eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and print culture, book illustration, book history, Gothic literature, comparative literature (English, French, Dutch, German), media studies, popular culture, John Milton

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

“The Printed Image Reconsidered: A Study of Sandro Jung’s Reconceptualization of the Field of Literary Illustration.” Publishing History 89 (2025). [Forthcoming]

“Representations of Terror and Horror in the Frontispieces to Thomas and Robert Hughes’s Gothic Chapbooks.” English Studies 104:7 (2023): 1193-1217.

“G. L. Crusius’s Visual-Critical Reading of Lichtwer’s Das Recht der Vernunft (1758).” Oxford German Studies 51:4 (2022): 455–469.

“The Visual Criticism of Thomas Stothard’s Designs of Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe for The Royal Engagement Pocket Atlas (1821).” Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik 46:1 (2021): 93–116.

“The French Translations of James Thomson’s The Seasons, 1754–1818.” Translation & Literature 27:2 (2018): 141–164.

“The Temple of the Muses, the Earl of Buchan and the Scottish Memorialization of James Thomson.” ANQ 30:4 (2017): 210–5.

“Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Chapbooks of the Legend of Jack the Giant Killer.” Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society 10 (2015): 109–137.

“Editorialising Practices, Competitive Marketability and James Thomson’s The Seasons.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies 38:2 (2015): 257–276.

(With Sandro Jung and Morteza Lak) “Humphry Repton’s The Bee and Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery.” ANQ 27:2 (2014): 76–83.

“James Wallis’s Editions of James Thomson’s The Seasons.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 46:1 (2013): 115–137.

“The Architectural Theatricalization of Power in William Beckford’s Vathek.” ANQ 26:3 (2013): 163–168.

“Milton’s Hypotextual Presence in James Thomson’s Summer (1727).” Ranam 45 (2012): 115–128.

“Negotiations of Tradition in James Thomson’s Winter (1726–1744).” English Studies 93:6 (2012): 668–682.

Book Chapters

“From Inter- to Intratextuality: ‘Autumn’ as the Conclusion to The Seasons.” In The Genres of Thomson’s“The Seasons”, edited by Sandro Jung and Kwinten Van De Walle, 43–58. Newark, Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2018.

Edited Works

Guest-edited special section on “The Eighteenth-Century Frontispiece” for English Studies 104:7 (2023).

(With Sandro Jung) The Genres of Thomson’s “The Seasons”. Bethlehem, PA: Lehigh University Press, 2018.

Awards

Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral fellowship (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 2020–2021)

Everett Helm Visiting Fellowship (Lilly Library, Bloomington (IN), October 2014)

Contact

Office: Room 261, School of English Studies

E-Mail: W2504@shisu.edu.cn