Kim Schoofs is a PhD student at KU Leuven within the Department of Linguistics. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and literature (KU Brussels, 2013), a master’s degree in linguistics and literature (KU Leuven, 2014) and a master’s degree in broadcast journalism (KU Leuven, 2015). In 2016, she started working on her PhD project, under the supervision of Dorien Van De Mieroop. Kim’s PhD project aims to gain insight into new ways of scrutinizing the dialectic relation between the discursive construction of local stories and of identities on the one hand, and dominant discourses circulating in the global context on the other hand. The theoretical elaboration of Positioning Analysis is at the core of her project. In general, Kim’s research interests cover Narrative, Life stories, Identity Construction, Discourse Analysis and Interactional Sociolinguistics.

Professor Lois Presser
- Narrative Criminology: Theory and Methods
- Visited Narrare during the academic year 2019-2020
- Department of Sociology
- University of Tennessee
Kim Schoofs
- PhD student
- Visited Narrare during the Autumn 2019
- Department of Linguistics
- KU Leuven
Professor Henrik Skov Nielsen
- Professor & Director of Narrative Research Lab and Centre for Fictionality Studies
- Narrare's Visiting professor during the academic years 2015-2018
- Department of Aesthetic and Communication
- Aarhus University
Professor Jens Brockmeier
- Department of Psychology, Health and Gender
- Visited Narrare during 2015
- The American University of Paris