This project challenges the assumption that narrative fiction is valuable because it creates understanding of other people’s experiences and lived realities through empathy. To date, popular perception frames failures of ...read more
Democratic Literacy and Humour (DELIAH) examines the multifaceted role of humour in artistic forms, cultural spaces, and online and offline fora, identifying how humour can either support or undermine democratic ...read more
This seed funded collaborative workshop proposes to facilitate the revision and resubmission of the ENLIGHT Thematic Network (ETN) proposal Boundaries of the Religious (BAR). The workshop will bring together the previous core ...read more
DEI-GN investigates the representations of disability in graphic narrative and their post-reading impact. As noted by Purcell (2021), “the visualization of the embodiment of disability” in graphic narrative greatly supports the emerging ...read more
Focusing on the Anthropocene unseen—or present yet invisible realities, such as the accumulation of greenhouse gases that drive global warming but defy immediate visibility—this project aims to develop a new ...read more
This project examines the representation of child-figures in contemporary (2017-ongoing) American speculative eco-comics, framing them as “com-post children”—a child who learns to become with their environment and aspires to be a ...read more
Medieval cities were more than centers of trade and governance—they were imagined, shaped, and contested through literature. This project examines how Bruges, Ghent, and Ypres were represented in Middle Dutch ...read more
Historic feminists have become lightning rods for heated contemporary debates around questions of gender-identity, intersectionality, and consent. Figures from the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) of the 1960s and 1970s are ...read more
This project proposal seeks to bridge significant gaps in the understanding of Migration or Integration Language Tests (MILTs) by scrutinizing their rationale, construction, operationalization, and impact within the contexts of migration and ...read more
Chiquitano/Bésɨro and Guarayo are two communities in Bolivia that share a history of forced migrations and, to this day, face linguistic and cultural erasure. However, they adopted opposite survival strategies: ...read more