In Dutch studies, there is renewed debate about the relevance and applicability of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological thinking for understanding contemporary developments in Dutch literature. This research project takes up Bourdieu’s ...read more
In the DBBE and EVWRIT projects, a lot of work has been done in the digitization of Late Antique formulaic texts. With this project, we aim to analyze how we ...read more
Democratic Literacy and Humour (DELIAH) examines the multifaceted role of humour in artistic forms, cultural spaces, and online and offline fora, identifying how humour can either support or undermine democratic ...read more
In recent years, there has been a notable increase in essayistic, fragmentary forms of writing in Dutch-language literature. While this experimental genre has not been defined as a literary phenomenon ...read more
When we think about climate trauma, the focus often centers on the universal emotional impact of environmental collapse. However, the susceptibility of queer individuals towards it remains underexplored. The proposed ...read more
When we think about climate trauma, the focus often centers on the universal emotional impact of environmental collapse. However, the susceptibility of queer individuals towards it remains underexplored. The proposed ...read more
This research project aims at addressing a gap in scholarly literature on Hellenistic poetry by looking at Hellenistic verse inscriptions, and more specifically the ones coming from the ‘Greek East’, ...read more
Focusing on the Anthropocene unseen—or present yet invisible realities, such as the accumulation of greenhouse gases that drive global warming but defy immediate visibility—this project aims to develop a new ...read more
This project examines the representation of child-figures in contemporary (2017-ongoing) American speculative eco-comics, framing them as “com-post children”—a child who learns to become with their environment and aspires to be a ...read more
Medieval cities were more than centers of trade and governance—they were imagined, shaped, and contested through literature. This project examines how Bruges, Ghent, and Ypres were represented in Middle Dutch ...read more