The project, 'Tours on Paper. Literary Explorations of the Travel Guide Book (Itinerarium) in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Age' (2019-2021), involved a literary-historical analyss of Latin narratives of pilgrims to ...read more
The aim of this project is to compare the linguistic reality of Dutch immersion classes for newly arrived migrants to the linguistic reality of Dutch-medium instruction in secondary education. Additionally, ...read more
This project will apply stylometry, the computational analysis of style, to investigate how cross-channel mobility and multilingualism impacted Latin literary style in 1000–1150. Due to the many invasions and colonization ...read more
Linguistic diversity is disappearing (almost) as fast as biological diversity: very soon, we may no longer be able to know the sounds and structures of many of the world's languages. ...read more
This doctoral research project focuses on the translation and reception of the Nouveau Roman in Spain during Francoism. On the one hand, it studies the effects of Francoist censorship on ...read more
The concept of collective government in the Middle Ages is associated primarily with urban contexts, while lords are usually understood as exercising sole power over their individual rural domains. However, ...read more
This project seeks to rethink the history of modern Chinese thought by providing the first ever study of the academic discipline of “ethnic minority philosophies” in the People’s Republic of ...read more
Proceeding from the maxim that 'nothing can be understood apart from context', this research projects seeks to do that which is rarely done in the study of Buddhist literature. It ...read more
Genialität und Virtuosität sind (schon der Etymologie nach) in der (deutschen) Literatur- und Kunstgeschichte stark mit Männlichkeit verknüpft, während weibliche Abweichung von der Norm nur in beschränktem Maße gewürdigt bzw. ...read more
The proposed research will shed new light on a debate within Bantu, the largest language family in Africa and a recent offshoot of Niger-Congo, the world’s largest phylum. Many non-Bantu ...read more