This project offers the first dedicated study of female-authored satire in Britain during an era often hailed as the Golden Age of Satire (ca. 1670-1760). Scholars of the long eighteenth ...read more
Ecological issues occupy an ever-growing place in contemporary literature. I intend to examine how francophone novels and novellas by Maghrebi, Sub-Saharan and Indian Ocean islands authors address the environmental problems ...read more
The early twentieth century saw the emergence of an avant-garde culture, which marked a turning point in the literary history of Spain. Until recently, the dominant approach to Spanish vanguard ...read more
In my FWO funded research project '"Ni Una Menos": Gender violence through the lens of the contemporary Latin American chronicle' (2021-2025) supervised by prof. Ilse Logie, I study how Argentinian and ...read more
This research project reads the experimental work of Kathy Acker with queer theory. Acker's oeuvre is considered to be one of the most significant collections of experimental writing in English. Scholarly ...read more
“Friend” or “Infernal Monster”? Comic and Tragic Representations of the Ottomans in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Theatre aims to understand dramatizations of Turks and ‘Selfs’ in the Venetian Republic, a perfect case ...read more
This project studies the topics of vulnerability, violence and kinship, from a sensorial perspective, in five contemporary Mexican novels on migration: Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (Yuri Herrera), ...read more
Throughout history, artists have been captivated by the characters of classical mythology. As the youngest of the arts, one of the most lucrative contemporary entertainment industries and an influential socio-cultural ...read more
Recently, the manager of a Dutch publishing consortium manager stated that literary quality should be measured and predicted by means of algorithms and big data-based audience research, rather than by ...read more
Medieval romance is arguably the most influential secular literary genre of the European Middle Ages. Its history has not been written yet. In order to enhance our understanding of this ...read more