Episodes of the Buddha’s life are portrayed at the Dunhuang grottoes either as large-scale separate murals or as small vignettes painted in an illustration of the sutra. For a long ...read more
This PhD project pursues a comprehensive study of Anyue (Sichuan) stone carvings related to Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang and Song dynasties, using a mixed methodology of iconographic analysis and tracing Esoteric Buddhist ...read more
DEI-GN investigates the representations of disability in graphic narrative and their post-reading impact. As noted by Purcell (2021), “the visualization of the embodiment of disability” in graphic narrative greatly supports the emerging ...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
This project redefines the understanding of sgraffito in Belgium during the Belle Époque (1870–1914) by uncovering the networks, techniques, and collaborations that shaped its creation. Moving beyond the focus on ...read more
The Anyue Buddhist 安岳 sites can be mainly dated between the Tang (618–907) and the Ming (1368–1644) dynasties and consist of locations of great importance when studying Buddhism in the Sichuan ...read more
The aim of the SerialKey project is to carry out a technological and morphometric study of mass-produced items from the European Final Bronze Age in order to gain a better ...read more
COSMOPOET aims to rethink the relationship between poetry and astronomy and ultimately, it investigates medieval Greek solutions to the question as to how to explain the cosmos through literary means. ...read more
In the face of planetary-wide anthropogenic change, new knowledge and methods are required to better grasp how human and nonhuman actors have contributed to global socio-environmental transformations of rural landscapes. ...read more