Researcher

Evelien Jonckheere

Research Expertise:Studies in Theater, Performance, Popular Entertainment and Media Archaeology: with a focus on fin-de-siècle Belgium where technology, commerce, identity and perception are interconnected practices in popular performative spaces like circus, variety, fairground, magic, cinema, museum, world exhibition and café culture. By unveiling their dominant regimes and counter-regimes, new perspectives emerge on modernity, modernism and urban history studies

Keywords:PERCEPTION STUDIES, MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY, Language and literature (incl. information, documentation, library and archive sciences)

Disciplines:Communication sciences, Media studies, Other media and communications, Other social sciences, Literary studies, Theory and methodology of literary studies, Other humanities and the arts

Research techniques:Archival and literature research, based on both written sources (newspapers, magazines, books, biographical documents) and unwritten sources (pictures, diapositives, film, visual arts, interviews), resulting in qualitative research

Users of research expertise:Experts in the field of modernity, performance, visual culture, media and urban studies as well as the general public