Friendship remains a surprisingly understudied topic, particularly in non-Western contexts, even less so concerning the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. Furthermore, when investigated, there has been little attention ...read more
This interdisciplinary research examines the design and dressing of fashion dolls as forms of queer aesthetic labor, enabling new aesthetic possibilities to envision gendered bodies in contemporary fashion. This research seeks to answer how the interaction between the doll, maker, and dresser ...read more
Eight Years: Joseph Kosuth in Ghent from 1990 to 1998: a cross-reference exhibition of information on the presence of an American artist in a Belgian city: consisting of a spatial ...read more
This project aims to improve our understanding of the use of courtesans (high-class Greek sex workers) as a literary focus in the Second Sophistic (50-250 CE), a literary and cultural ...read more
In the context of globalization and digitalization, this study analyses the literary and artistic creations of Chinese socialist feminism in cyberspace, and explores the unique cultural expressions of the modernity ...read more
This project starts from two major lacunae in research. Despite substantial progress in the study of premodern material culture, historians have failed to add a spatial dimension to their knowledge ...read more
Situated at the intersection of literary studies and translation studies, this project examines the presence and representation of translated foreign literatures in the French literary field during the 1920s, a decade ...read more
Between 1948 and 1994, the National Party installed the apartheid regime in South Africa, based on the communicating vessels of racism and sexism, which permeated the entire country and its ...read more
My project focuses on the history of Baohua Mountain from the late Ming to the middle Qing period (seventeenth–eighteenth century), tracing the establishment and development of the Vinaya (monastic code) ...read more