After the Second World War, several neo-avant-gardes in Europe picked up the literary experimentation of the so-called historical avant-gardes and continued to subvert dominant protocols, genres and boundaries in literature. This WOG, co-ordinated by the University of Leuven, combines the expertise of other Belgian, French and Austrian partners, and aims to chart and compare the European neo-avant-gardes' experimental forms and genres of writing, their work's political aspects, its innate tensions between regional and global concerns, and its intricate ties to technology and media.

Coordinated by Bart Vervaeck (University of Leuven) in collaboration with partners from the University of Brussels (VUB), Université de Liège, Ghent University, Université de Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis and the University of Vienna.

Selected article output:

• Broqua, V., De Geest, D., Vervaeck, B. (2023). Neo-Avant-Garde Politics and Poetics from a Transnational Perspective: The Conversation between the Beats and Labris. In: Modernism/modernity Print+, Volume 8, Cycle 1.
• Baetens, J. (2021). In praise of hybrid purity. Nomadism and Pierre Joris. In: B. Vervaeck (Eds.), Neo-Avant-Gardes. Post-War Literary Experiments Across Borders, (109-126). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• De Geest, D., Vervaeck, B. (2019). Small Amsterdam and the World Beyond: The Case of the Magazine Barbarber. In: T. D'haen (Eds.), Dutch and Flemish Literature as World Literature, (248-259). New York: Bloomsbury.
• Neven, E., De Geest, D. (2017). 'Hout, elastiek, geel en groen.' De lijstvorm in de poëzie van K. Schippers. Internationale Neerlandistiek, 55 (2), 135-152.
• Vervaeck, B., De Geest, D. (2017). Der 5de meridiaan (1968-1970): anders und auch wieder nicht. In: H. Van Uffelen, D. De Geest, M. De Bont, C. Hermann (Eds.), Literatur in Bewegung. Über die Dynamik von Texten in der niederländischen Literatur, (159-186). Wien: Praesens.
• Vervaeck, B., De Geest, D., Bernaerts, L., Vandevoorde, H. (Eds.) (2015). Het lab van de sixties. Positionering en literair experiment in de jaren zestig. (SEL-reeks, 8). Gent: Academia Press Ginkgo.