The project consists of three interrelated strands. The first, formalist strand explores the literary innovations demanded by climate change, a phenomenon whose magnitude and complexity challenge conventional modes of representation. ...read more
This PhD project researches the metaphor, symbol, and theme of “shelter” as it is deployed in contemporary climate change fiction and ecocriticism, as historicized by the cultural proliferation of the ...read more
My research project at Stockholm University pertains to questions of narrative framing and other forms of multi-narrative organisation in High Medieval Latin tale compilations: how are these compilations organised and ...read more
How did early modern Europeans make sense of painful and uncanny bodily excretions? Rather than dismissing such afflictions as a nuisance to be eliminated by the ‘life sciences’, pre-modern patients ...read more
This project will investigate (a) the sociological and historical context of the late 19th & early 20thcentury history of religions, focusing on anti-Semitism in scientific networks, and (b) the depictionof ...read more
Several hundred examples of the writings of Jacob of Serugh (d. 521) are preserved in the original Syriac language, but he was equally popular among other confessional communities of the Christian ...read more
The project focuses on the postwar literary radio play in the Low Countries (Flanders and the Netherlands), a clearly defined region where the literary radio play has constantly been kept ...read more
This project investigates how changing socio-economic relations within Bruges and Mechlin had an impact on the socio-professional topography of both cities during the transition period between the Late Middle Ages ...read more
This project examines the functions of lyrical traits that are intensified in Dutch and Flemish prose between 1955 and 1975. After a period of post-war reconstruction, the sixties mark an era ...read more
This project focusses on the socialization of, and interaction between, two non-elite groups in the Roman world: freed slaves and freeborn members of the urban ‘middle class’. Scholarly interest in ...read more