Maria Zirra’s PhD project investigates the ways in which contemporary postcolonial Anglophone poetry constructs comparative imaginaries of cultural memory across borders and poetic forms. Her choice of representative poets from Northern ...read more
This research is part of the ERC-project 'Novel Saints: Ancient novelistic heroism in the hagiography of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages'. This project aims to trace and interpret ancient novelistic material ...read more
This project aims at tracing and interpreting ancient novelistic influences in late antique and early medieval hagiography from different linguistic traditions. Traditionally, scholarship concerning the history of the novel deals with the ancient love novel (1st-4th centuries) and ...read more
In my PhD-project, "In Good Faith. Belief and Credibility in Late Antique Latin Hagiographical Narratives of Chaste Couples", I concentrate on the much debated issues of truth, belief, and fictionality ...read more
The 9/11-attacks and the war on terror have altered the perception of Islam in the West. Particularly those countries once associated with the rich history of Mesopotamia and Persia have become subject to an antagonizing discourse (cf. Axis of ...read more