Researchers generally situate the origins of Belgian-Dutch blackface as a way to ridicule Afro-diasporic people in the second half of the nineteenth century, when Anglo-American minstrel troupes arrived in the Low ...read more
When you think about war literature, the first things that cross your mind are the testimonies of soldiers who fought in the trenches. Yet, it might surprise you that WWI also marked a ...read more
In recent years, the publishing landscape has experienced significant changes that have shaped the way books are now produced, mediated and consumed. Market constraints have given rise to large publishing ...read more
What if you got asked to tell what One Thousand and One Nights are about, with the foresight of leaving out the frame story of Scheherazade? You would probably end up with ...read more
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie project “Intracorporeal Narratives: Reading Internal Biology in Women’s Literature, 1880s-1930s” (INTRARIB) examines British and American women’s fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries for its ...read more
This project uses the critical philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche to develop a comprehensive understanding of the meaning and function of the nihilism(s) confronting us in today’s ecological crises. Despite increased ...read more
Hugo Grotius is best known as a legal scholar (Mare liberum, De iure belli ac pacis) and as a politician in Oldenbarnevelt's entourage. He was also interested in philology (he ...read more
This project aims to chart and trace the dynamics and impact of the neo-avant-garde in Flemish literary magazines (1949-1979). These magazines are conceived as both a discursive network and an ...read more
This project intends to understand better how Greek medieval letters had a concrete function in society, and were at the same time crafted as highly sophisticated rhetorical works of art. ...read more
This research project aims to investigate the relationships between image/picture and word in contemporary Italian poetry from the 1950s to the present day. The main point of view of the ...read more