Dr. Michael Rosenfeld

Michael Rosenfeld is a junior postdoctoral FWO research fellow (2022-2025) at the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings. His research focuses on the transnational collaborative strategies of queer intellectuals, such as Jean Lorrain, André Gide, Georges Eekhoud, Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen and Jacob Israël De Haan, in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. He examines how they worked together between 1885 and 1910 in order to influence attitudes towards same-sex love in their publications. 

In December 2023, Michael was a guest editor for Sextant on Intellectuel•les queer. Collaborations (1880-1920). He has published articles on French novelist Émile Zola, on queer Belgian author Georges Eekhoud, as well as original archival material, such as a revealing Italian queer autobiography from 1889/1896. Previously published in censored versions only, he published the first complete edition based on the manuscript in 2017, which was recently translated to English and published by Columbia University Press in July 2022.