2005 Research professorship at the University of Antwerp
2000 Full professor at the University of Antwerp
1986 Tenure at the University of Antwerp
1985 Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam
1985 Language teacher at the Free University of Brussels
1984 Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, “James Joyce and Friedrich Hölderlin in Contemporary French Criticism.”
Fields of Scholarship
Comparative literature
Modernism
James Joyce
Textual scholarship
History of the book
Honours and Awards
Prof. Lenout's bookJames Joyce, Schrijver shortlisted for “Best non-fiction book in the Low Countries” of 1994 by jury of “De Gouden Uil”
The Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde (Belgian Royal Academy of Dutch language and literature) gives the Joris Eeckhoutprijs for best Belgian study in Dutch of a writer in 1994-1995 on 23 October 1996 to James Joyce Schrijver
Biannual prize for literary criticism of the Flemish Community, October 1996