The proposed research seeks to provide an analysis of how parents reproduce and challenge in everyday practice and discourse the norms and moralities of monogamy and the nuclear family. ...read more
In 2016-2018, we conducted the first policy-oriented research into intersex / Differences of Sex Development (DSD) in Flanders and Belgium, which consisted of two parts.
A Web-Based Tool for Shared Decision Making in DSD. The birth of a child with DSD is anxiety-provoking. Stressors associated with ascertaining a DSD include weathering drawn-out diagnostic testing periods, ...read more
This project studies the relation between early-nineteenth-century British periodicals and the rise of the credit economy. It argues that leading contemporaneous periodicals fostered a cultural acceptance of the new economic ...read more
My investigation combines Classical Philology and historical linguistics. In several Indo-European languages, such as Greek, Armenian, Phrygian, Sanskrit and Iranian, the past tense form was built not only by using ...read more
After the conquest of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE, Greek becomes the main written language in Egypt until the seventh century CE. Many of the changes between Classical ...read more
This project will provide the first comparative study of how conservative British novelists, from Walter Scott to Ford Madox Ford, participated in political debates about four major issues of ...read more
Since the turn of the millennium, there has been an explicit interest to deal with theater as a visual event. Bringing theater studies in close connection with visual studies, ...read more
The postdoctoral project aims to examine the effects of a study abroad on foreign language acquisition. More specifically, the project will investigate possible gains in the lexical and morphosyntactic knowledge ...read more
This research project will argue that the fifth-century emergence of new forms of kingship was the result of a crisis of leadership structures within the imperial Roman army. The relation ...read more