This project examines how contemporary anglophone novels portray plants as dynamic, entangled beings living in and affected by environmental change, crisis, and biodiversity loss. I study how fiction, by means of formal ...read more
Charles Darwin’s proposition that humanity constitutes one species among many implies a shared, primordial foundation of cognition and existence with other life forms. This premise inevitably raises a central question: ...read more
The OSCAIL project addresses the Anglocentric bias in scholarly communication, which limits access to publications and excludes many researchers from the peer review process. In line with UNESCO’s Open Science ...read more
Linguistic changes often follow a cyclical path whereby the original formal expressions are worn down and first reinforced and later replaced by new ones. In how far such ‘micro-cycles’ conspire ...read more
In Dutch studies, there is renewed debate about the relevance and applicability of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological thinking for understanding contemporary developments in Dutch literature. This research project takes up Bourdieu’s ...read more
This research project focuses on the translation of Japanese engi 縁起 texts, produced at local Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines before the 20th century. These texts typically relate the histories ...read more
Research conducted as part of the corresponding doctor-assistant position at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication (VTC).read more
This projects aims to establish a comparison between the public dance practices of the Restoration Monarchies of Prussia, Austria, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, France and Great Britain between ...read more
This project area is dedicated to the memory of decolonisation in French and francophone Algerian novels on the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), their translations into German and their circulation ...read more