In the early 20th century of China, Buddhism got more and more integrated into economic, political and cultural developments. This contributed to what Master Taixu has called ‘Humanistic Buddhism’. This ...read more
Didactic poetry was a popular genre in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. After a lull in production between the 6th and 10th century, we see a resurgence of Greek didactic ...read more
Whether as a patron, recipient or reader, the literate princess of the 15th and 16th centuries has been studied until now almost exclusively in her receiving role of literary culture. ...read more
What is the difference between magic and miracle? Scholars today believe that it is not possible to reach clear definitions of ‘magic’ and ‘miracle’ capable of answering that question: theoretically, ...read more
In my FWO funded research project '"Ni Una Menos": Gender violence through the lens of the contemporary Latin American chronicle' (2021-2025) supervised by prof. Ilse Logie, I study how Argentinian and ...read more
This research project reads the experimental work of Kathy Acker with queer theory. Acker's oeuvre is considered to be one of the most significant collections of experimental writing in English. Scholarly ...read more
“Friend” or “Infernal Monster”? Comic and Tragic Representations of the Ottomans in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Theatre aims to understand dramatizations of Turks and ‘Selfs’ in the Venetian Republic, a perfect case ...read more
This project studies the topics of vulnerability, violence and kinship, from a sensorial perspective, in five contemporary Mexican novels on migration: Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (Yuri Herrera), ...read more
“Ut pictura poesis”! The comparison is older than Horace but the rivalry between different artistic media continues on the modern stage. The texts this project proposes to analyse embody an ...read more
Recently, the manager of a Dutch publishing consortium manager stated that literary quality should be measured and predicted by means of algorithms and big data-based audience research, rather than by ...read more