This dissertation investigates female editors and German-language periodicals between 1740 and 1920. More specifically, I explore how female editors strategically employ emotions to create transnational networks and shape their position ...read more
This dissertation sets out to explore the connection between women’s periodicals and literary salons in Southern Europe (1860-1920). Although existing studies have argued that the rise of the printed press ...read more
This dissertation is dedicated to studying the original gendered discourse shaped in the pages of the prominent yet neglected Russian fashion journal Modnyi magazin(1862-1883) published and edited in St. Petersburg ...read more
Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920 (acronym WeChangEd) is a five-year research project funded by an ERC Starting Grant (2015-2020). It is directed by Marianne ...read more
The modern term “epyllion” commonly refers to a narrative poem in hexameters, which is shorter than a full epic. Literary overviews tend to focus on Hellenistic Greek epyllia, considered pioneers ...read more
This project starts out from the vision books of Hildegard of Bingen, which present allegorical visions together with their exegesis. The project asks whether this use of allegorical creation could ...read more
The project Poetry from the margins. Literary, linguistic, philological and cultural-historical analysis of a new corpus of Byzantine book epigrams (800-1453)bid builds on a previous project of the same team, funded ...read more
At the heart of this doctoral research lies the blurring of the clear linearity between narration and trauma recovery, which forms the topic of emerging theoretical developments in both transcultural ...read more
1984 saw the release one of the most debated works in contemporary Spanish literature: Larva.Babel de una noche de San Juan, the first novel written by Julián Ríos. Refusing to ...read more
Lisa Vanlancker’s PhD project focuses on a corpus of literary texts about the Holocaust written by members of three successive generations from three different Dutch-Jewish families. It aims to understand how the historical trauma that is ...read more