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
This doctoral research aims to measure and promote reading skills and reading motivation among Flemish students in a classical language course. A first research goal is to map current reading ...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
We live in a world that seems to have largely lost faith in politics and in the dialectic of history . While experienced differently depending on geographical location and socio-political ...read more
Video games have a reputation of being overly violent, sexist, and stereotyping. These connotations are the result of dominant hegemonic practices in the game industry, and while they are certainly ...read more
Nature conservation is a major concern today. However, we forget that in 20th-century France, during the decline of its rural society, French female authors had already turned to nature writing. ...read more
For centuries, the lasting and widespread influence of Shakespeare’s plays has been attributed to their supposed universality and timelessness. However, scholars have recently grown skeptical of this universal Bard, while ...read more
This project studies the reception of influential 18th-century English periodicals during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Italy. English periodicals, particularly satirical ones, were crucial to the expanding ...read more
Marveling is a universal human response to something greater than ourselves. Throughout history, narrative literature has been a prime vehicle for marveling since descriptions of the extraordinary can induce the ...read more
This project aims to improve our understanding of the use of courtesans (high-class Greek sex workers) as a literary focus in the Second Sophistic (50-250 CE), a literary and cultural ...read more