My PhD research project focuses on the circulation and practice of Buddhism in Turfan around the 5th century. I am interested in how Buddhism in the region was formed/re-formed by ...read more
This project focuses on ‘Oral Literature for Development’ (OL4D) as a new line of thinking. We introduce OL4D firmly based on the belief that culture and creativity are central for ...read more
In this study I will focus on female oral genres in East Wollega, Ethiopia, in the context of basket production. This combined approach of tangible and intangible Oromoo heritage will lead ...read more
This research project aims at analysing Oromo oral narratives from econarratological perspectives. Econarratlogy is often viewed as a new approach in literary and cultural studies in relation to the other ...read more
This project examines conviviality as an everyday practice of bridging religious and cultural difference from the perspective of Muslim minorities in Belgium. It aims to reveal the modalities in which ...read more
This project explores the early modern attitude toward nature through the very popular literary medium of the "hofdicht". In this genre the gardens and country houses of the elite are ...read more
Schedography is a Byzantine method of teaching Greek grammar, especially orthography and syntax. This method was used for more than five hundred years, from the eleventh century to the early ...read more
Is generative AI ushering in a new dawn for writing evaluation?
The primary research objective of this project is to use state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to enable automatic writing support, for both ...read more
This dissertation will interrogate the possibilities of blending literary trauma theory with ecocriticism to arrive at a new hermeneutics for reading, where human and environmental trauma are not viewed as ...read more
Owing to their visual essence and status as a popular, modern medium, comics – newspaper strips, comics magazines and graphic novels – provide valuable insight into the transformation of collective consciousness.