While academic vocabulary is a well-explored area in English, the same cannot be said for Spanish. Recognizing the need for exchange students in Social Sciences to master this vocabulary, we ...read more
Although the Later Roman Empire (ca. 300-650) was highly stratified, scholars have rarely asked how this impacted on social interactions and what the impact was of ideas of equality on ...read more
This project examines accent bias in Flemish secondary and higher education, focusing on biases towards students with foreign and regional accents. Using a combination of methodologies, we study how teachers perceive students’ ...read more
While ancient Greek literary texts have been extensively studied, non-literary sources such as papyri have not received the same attention. This project aims to explore novel approaches to these sources: ...read more
This doctoral project investigates the role of polysemy (the phenomenon where a word has multiple meanings) and word families (groups of words derived from the same root) in the process ...read more
Women translators often face a dual invisibility, marginalised both as translators and as women. The lack of academic attention for their valuable contributions and their underestimated influence on translated literature ...read more
For centuries, the lasting and widespread influence of Shakespeare’s plays has been attributed to their supposed universality and timelessness. However, scholars have recently grown skeptical of this universal Bard, while ...read more
This research examines the vulnerability of agricultural regions in the Low Countries to damaging animals from 1780 to 1840. The study questions which factors influenced animal occurrences in diverse regions ...read more
Marveling is a universal human response to something greater than ourselves. Throughout history, narrative literature has been a prime vehicle for marveling since descriptions of the extraordinary can induce the ...read more