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
My goal for the next few years is to continue my research on argument structure, case marking and grammatical relations in a historical-comparative perspective. Right now a four-year period of ...read more
Collective action has long been a central theme within social history, dating back to the rise of innovative historiographical currents such as the British Marxist historians and the Annales School ...read more
The Caribbean’s early newspaper press remains curiously absent from histories of colonial print, despite the region’s centrality to imperial expansion. This project addresses this gap by turning to newspapers printed ...read more
The Translating Through Time (TTT, FWO grant code W001126N) network creates a platform for a timely intervention in the study of historical translation in Europe, from the late Middle Ages ...read more
Transnational impostures are acts of deception that occur across linguistic and cultural borders. In the Romantic period—roughly, the 1790s through 1830s—, these were abundantly present and attracted great interest. The ...read more
In Greek Genesis, linguistic variation can be identified by analyzing how particular variables are rendered. This project identifies variables through the text’s relationship to its Hebrew source: a Hebrew construction ...read more
This seminar seeks to examine how the notion of energy transition is discussed in various contemporary discourses, more specifically in journalistic discourse. Building on the observation put forward by Richard ...read more
This project investigates the "text predominance" phenomenon in multimodal emotion analysis, where existing models rely excessively on textual information while underutilising audio and visual cues. By combining linguistic insights with ...read more
This project investigates the "text predominance" phenomenon in multimodal emotion analysis, where existing models rely excessively on textual information while underutilising audio and visual cues. By combining linguistic insights with ...read more