Current title: Political emancipation through language and cultural education. Critical pedagogical research into the rhetoric of cultural literacy mediated by cultural institutions and cultural policy at the Flemish, Belgian and European level.

This research conducts 3 integrated research tracks to investigate cultural literacy projects - issued at the Flemish, Belgian and European policy level: (1) conceptual study into cultural literacy; (2) a crosssectional analysis of the rhetoric of political emancipation in cultural policies; (3) field research inquiring
how cultural institutions (theatres, libraries, museums, …) translate emancipatory cultural knowledge, defined at distinct policy levels, into transformative and sustainable cultural practices.