Memory scholars have been criticising the state of collective memory in the West arguing that efforts made to commemorate the crimes of the 20th century have neither reduced racism nor ...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 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
Pseudotranslations are an interesting occurrence within literature and represent a particular problem for literary and translation studies- as original works that present themselves as, and thus perform as, translations, they ...read more
The main goal of this research is to examine, investigate and analyse the features and composition of the Three Hares motif in the Dunhuang 敦煌 Mogao Caves (Mogaoku 莫高窟), in ...read more
Sheldon Pollock’s influential theories on the cosmopolitan and ‘secular’ nature of Sanskrit literature and the vernacularisation of regional Indian literatures as top-down processes which originate in royal courts do not ...read more
Literary historians have often noted the ‘conventional’ nature of 14th-century Middle Dutch verse romance or ridderroman. While the corpus has long been depreciated as derivative, a mixture of older romance ...read more
In this project, I study the corpus of Byzantine hagiographies that feature a 'magos' (or magician). The goal is to produce an inventory of all hagiographical narratives in Greek which feature ...read more
This project will study gender relations and monsters in Oromo oral narratives, both as a way to map the gender-stereotypical discourse inherent in the narratives as well as the potentiality ...read more
Until now, the study of travel writing has mostly focused on the visual ‘gazes’ on foreign people and places. Challenging the longstanding neglect of non-visual sensations, this project ...read more