Medieval cities were more than centers of trade and governance—they were imagined, shaped, and contested through literature. This project examines how Bruges, Ghent, and Ypres were represented in Middle Dutch ...read more
When we think about climate trauma, the focus often centers on the universal emotional impact of environmental collapse. However, the susceptibility of queer individuals towards it remains underexplored. The proposed ...read more
In the DBBE and EVWRIT projects, a lot of work has been done in the digitization of Late Antique formulaic texts. With this project, we aim to analyze how we ...read more
Historic feminists have become lightning rods for heated contemporary debates around questions of gender-identity, intersectionality, and consent. Figures from the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) of the 1960s and 1970s are ...read more
This project traces a shift in German language poetry since the turn of the millennium. While the modernist model of the poeta doctus, exemplified by T.S. Eliot and Gottfried Benn ...read more
Translations of the works of the American-born author Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) have been particularly abundant in the German speaking countries. From the 1970s to the early 2000s, key figures of ...read more
This project aims to investigate how Byzantine Greek manuscripts - and especially the metrical paratexts, or book epigrams (BE), that accompany the main text - engage and interact with the ...read more
This interdisciplinary research examines the design and dressing of fashion dolls as forms of queer aesthetic labor, enabling new aesthetic possibilities to envision gendered bodies in contemporary fashion. This research seeks to answer how the interaction between the doll, maker, and dresser ...read more
Professional actresses were among the few women to build wide literary networks and play an active cultural role in early modern Italy. Yet moralists commonly labelled them as ‘weavers of ...read more
The project aims to reconstruct the impact that the dissemination of vernacular translations of Plato had in Italy between 1540 and 1840. Focusing the inquiry on paratexts (prefaces, dedications, letters, ...read more