“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
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
Genialität und Virtuosität sind (schon der Etymologie nach) in der (deutschen) Literatur- und Kunstgeschichte stark mit Männlichkeit verknüpft, während weibliche Abweichung von der Norm nur in beschränktem Maße gewürdigt bzw. ...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
The ever-increasing availability of information, made possible by the Internet today, transforms the way people perceive and acquire knowledge. This project maps the effects of this epistemological shift in the ...read more
The focus of this research project lies on 21st century literature from the Andean countries, especially Ecuador, Peru and Colombia, which draws upon and bears witness to the region´s high geographical ...read more
This project examines a representative corpus of digital comics from a narratological perspective, analyzing the way they experiment with the possibilities offered by the digital format. This includes reflecting on the forms ...read more
This project offers the first comprehensive reconstruction and interpretation of receptions of ancient novels (1st-4th cent. AD) in (Greek, Arabic and western vernacular) secular narrative from Late Antiquity and the ...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
The project entails an ecopoetic inquiry into literary fiction on nature and ecology as a transcultural problem area within four interacting cultural regions (French, Germanophone, Anglophone, Italian). Central to this ...read more