Mahlu Mertens's PhD project explores how climate change literature that resists the typical form of the climate dystopia may provide alternative ways of narrating anthropogenic climate change that are more ...read more
The project seeks to elucidate tragedy's complex, intertwined notions of agency and consciousness by proposing the first comprehensive study of narrative mindreading in Greek tragedy. It aims to contribute both ...read more
Many of the values shared across modern Europe were first adopted by noblemen and -women in the High Middle Ages in order to present themselves as morally superior and thus to ...read more
Singing Communities investigated how people engaged through song and singing in political communities of the Dutch revolutionary period. These revolutionary years at the end of the eighteenth century were a period ...read more
This project aims to analyse the depiction of foster families in Old Norse and Icelandic sagas. This research focuses on relationships between foster families and the emotions that surround the ...read more
This project will explore the Jewish literary production from the early Mamluk period. Its aim is to advance our knowledge of this research field by conducting a literary and contextual ...read more
This research project investigates the influence of political and literary romanticism on the literary works of early 20th century Chinese authors, in particular of Lu Xun.read more
This project studies the logic of constructing cosmopolitan subjectivity in a selection of plays written by immigrant artists and plays written about migration since 2000. Specifically, it focuses on plays ...read more
This project studies the mainstream Russian émigré newsmagazine, Illiustrirovannaia Rossiia (1924-1939), as a test case for the widely accepted idea that interwar Russian émigré culture first and foremost aspired to ...read more