Schedography is a Byzantine method of teaching Greek grammar, especially orthography and syntax. This method was used for more than five hundred years, from the eleventh century to the early ...read more
This project aims to examine multiperspective narratives in contemporary media—novels, movies, and video games—through the lens of cultural and transmedial narratology. More specifically, I intend to foreground their experiential effects, ...read more
This project engages with one of the most important enigmas in the history of pre-modern societies, namely the presumed impact of elite constraints on economic development. Capitalizing on a fortuitous ...read more
Is generative AI ushering in a new dawn for writing evaluation?
The primary research objective of this project is to use state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to enable automatic writing support, for both ...read more
This dissertation will interrogate the possibilities of blending literary trauma theory with ecocriticism to arrive at a new hermeneutics for reading, where human and environmental trauma are not viewed as ...read more
Owing to their visual essence and status as a popular, modern medium, comics – newspaper strips, comics magazines and graphic novels – provide valuable insight into the transformation of collective consciousness.
One of the universal properties of human language is that it changes over time. Understanding the mechanisms of language change is therefore key ...read more
Multiple registers coexisting within the same linguistic system and the creation of grammars codifying one of these registers as ‘the standard’ are phenomena common to many languages. The same issues are observed ...read more
This research aims to comprehensively study the iconography of Bhaiṣajyaguru, as a medium to underscore the cross-pollination of religions and beliefs shaping an iconographic paradigm across Central Asia, India, and ...read more
During the Early Holocene, starting ca. 11650 cal BP (or ca. 9700 cal BC) and corresponding to the Mesolithic period, at least four abrupt centennial-scale Rapid Climate Change (RCC) events ...read more
