This project examines a representative corpus of digital comics from a narratological perspective, analyzing the way they experiment with the possibilities offered by the digital format. This includes reflecting on the forms ...read more
Within the current field of contemporary documentary theatre, the form of the essay is rising to prominence. The nature and the purpose of the essay inspires a number of contemporary artists with ...read more
The project aims at describing interpreter-mediation in the context of police interviews that result in written records and to assess the impact of interpreter-mediation on the interview and the written ...read more
Many of the unique syntactic features of Dutch dialects spoken in Flanders only occur in very specific discourse contexts, and therefore cannot be researched using existing databases and linguistic atlases, as those ...read more
The project entails an ecopoetic inquiry into literary fiction on nature and ecology as a transcultural problem area within four interacting cultural regions (French, Germanophone, Anglophone, Italian). Central to this ...read more
Cross-linguistic comparison of language's diachronies has shown that new negators arise from an originally optional pragmatic reinforcer – i.e. an expression equivalent to ‘(not) a drop/a thing' in English. This ...read more
This project explores recent efforts by the Russian state to restore the flowering reading culture of Soviet times. The purpose of this policy is not fighting declining reading figures, but ...read more
The research project aims to scrutinize the interwar Russian émigré historical novel, i.e. the phenomenon itself, how it relates to émigré culture, and its relation to other (older and contemporary) ...read more
This comparative project wants to look into the relationship between Kim Namju (1946-1994), a prominent South Korean poet, and Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), one of the most renowned poets of modern ...read more
The goal of the project is to study expressive moments in augmented music realities. Expressive moments are subjective experiences of optimal interaction with, or guided by, music, such as flow, ...read more