Projects

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From cause célèbre to microhistory. Toward a history of synchronic history-writing

2013

This comparative project, which examines French, English, Dutch and German texts, aims to trace the historical development of the cause célèbre, i.e. a historical-literary tradition which compiled the most remarkable legal cases and crime stories of the recent ...read more
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Literary studies
Visions on authorship in Middle Dutch literature (c. 1200 – c. 1550) and the reproducti

2013

In the study of Middle Dutch literature, the key question of authorship and its contemporary interpretations has rarely been asked, probably because most texts were handed down anonymously. However, through ...read more
16th Century
19th Century
Authorship
Dutch literature
Literary history
Literary studies
Middle Ages
A revisionist, genre-theoretical and historical study of the British ode in the long eighteenth century (1680-1830)

2013

This doctoral project aims to produce a revisionist, genre-theoretical history of the eighteenth-century ode in Britain. Promoting an inclusive, quantitative as well as qualitative examination of canonic and non-canonic authors’ productions, the project ...read more
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
English literature
Genre
Literary studies
Poetry
Print culture
Music for Oscar. The relationship between literary text and libretto. The case Oscar Wilde

2013

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19th Century
20th Century
Adaptation
Decadence
English literature
Literary studies
Music
Women editors as authors. The case of Rachel Beer

2013

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19th Century
English literature
Literary studies
Imagological reading of American presidents’ inaugural addresses and State of the Union messages (1789-2013)

2013

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19th Century
20th Century
American studies
Contemporary
English literature
Literary studies
Rhetoric
The chiastic world of Henry James

2013

My dissertation explores the functions of chiasmus in Henry James's works. Focusing on The Portrait of a Lady (1880-81/1908), I will argue that James uses chiasmus at phrase level to ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Chiasmus
English literature
Literary studies
Painting themselves. A transnational approach to national self-portraiture

2013

This PhD project has focused on a group of sketches, which were popular throughout Europe around 1840. The sketches, bearing titles like "les Français peints par eux-mêmes" and "Los Españoles ...read more
19th Century
Art
Comparative literature
Interculturalism
Literary studies
Media
Self-portraiture
In search of a national (s)cul(p)ture. Belgian sculptors abroad and foreign sculptors in Belgium (c. 1815-1916)

2012

Seemingly paradoxical, nineteenth-century society and culture are characterized by both an increased internationalization of cultural and artistic practices, and a growing importance of nationality. The role of national administrations and ...read more
19th Century
Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Art
Auguste Rodin
Belgian academy
Belgian salon
Belgium
Charles Van der Stappen
Comparative
Constantin Meunier
English
Eugène Simonis
Field research
Geographic and map based
George Minne
Guillaume Geefs
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Jef Lambeaux
Julien Dillens
L'Art Moderne
Language and text analysis
National identity
National schools
Paris salon
Public monuments
Quantitative
Sculpture
Western Europe
The development of the fiscal administration as a manifestation of state capacity and infrastructural power, Southern Netherlands and Belgium (1795-1852)

2012

The development of the fiscal administration as a manifestation of state capacity and infrastructural power, Southern Netherlands and Belgium (1795-1852) is a doctoral research project, financed by Research Foundation Flanders ...read more
19th Century
Belgium
Comparative
English
History
Quantitative
Western Europe