The project aims to study the literary works, published in the Russian emigration between 1917 and 1940, in which the October Revolution and the Civil War take up a central ...read more
Maaheen Ahmed's postdoctoral project is on trauma in contemporary comics, relying on a broad definition of trauma to encompass the aftermath of large-scale events (the two world wars, 9/11) as ...read more
Our dissertation focuses on a two-part literary corpus. The first group contains four novels dedicated to the wars of the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Created either by French ...read more
An important feature of literary modernism is its emphasis on ‘the now,’ its insistence on the present and the immediacy of experience. Modernist writers rejected the nineteenth-century fascination with the past ...read more
This project explores the ways in which American experimental poets struggled to create poetry that countered the Cold War ideology, and examines how the method of collecting-archiving was used in their efforts. ...read more
Maria Zirra’s PhD project investigates the ways in which contemporary postcolonial Anglophone poetry constructs comparative imaginaries of cultural memory across borders and poetic forms. Her choice of representative poets from Northern ...read more
During the first decades of the 20th century, a renewed sensibility for different religious traditions distinguished German(-language) Expressionism, and especially Expressionist drama. It has long been accepted that Expressionism is ...read more
From the perspective of Intelligence Studies, Studies in Belgian Intelligence uses an interdisciplinary methodology to approach both past and present of Belgian intelligence, to identify the underlying factors that are ...read more