Before his appointment at Utrecht University, Reindert Dhondt has worked as a postdoc at Leuven University (KU Leuven), where he was granted, on a competitive basis, a FWO-Vlaanderen postdoctoral research fellowship with a project on the essays of Carlos Fuentes. This project focused from a literary-theoretical perspective on the question of the author’s discursive self-representation.

He has worked as a Fulbright scholar at Brown University and the University of California, Los Angeles, and has completed research stays at the UNAM, Universidade de São Paulo and Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.