Robbe Vandersmissen is a Doctoral Researcher at the Research Foundation Flanders - FWO since November 2021, with prior experience as a Visiting Scholar at Uppsala University in the Section for the Sociology of Literature from February to June 2023, and as a Swedish language lecturer at Ghent University in early 2021. Vandersmissen also interned at the Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium in Norway and Iceland through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Belgium in mid-2019. Educational qualifications include a Master of Science in Teaching in Languages with a focus on Linguistics and Literature from Ghent University (2020-2022), a Master of Arts in Linguistics and Literature specializing in German and Scandinavian Studies from Ghent University (2019-2020), studies at Stockholm University in 2018-2019, and a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Literature focusing on German and Swedish from Ghent University (2016-2019).