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 proposes a sociolinguistic ethnographic analysis of the activation trajectories in which migrant job seekers are inserted in Flemish Belgium. The analysis aims at acquiring insight in the role ...read more
This research project explores the idea that new things can be learned in interaction with devices outside of us. In my practice as a media-artist, the notion of a 'Dialogue ...read more
My dissertation “Encountering Psychogeographical Literary Moments: Readers’ Affective Enactment in Contemporary British Novels (2000-)” examines how embodied readers affectively enact fictional urban environments and the affordances mentioned through textual cues ...read more
In recent years, the Belgian colonial past and its contemporary legacies have increasingly become the subject of a public debate. This FWO-funded project starts from the hypothesis that the tensions in ...read more
In Romanian, a broad range of predicates is used with a subject-like experiencer argument in the dative (e.g. Mi-e somn ‘I feel sleepy’, lit. me.DAT is sleep) or, more rarely, ...read more
In 1529, the Order of the Knights of St John accepted the offer of a Mediterranean base from Charles V and relocated to the islands of the Maltese archipelago. During ...read more