Organisations

The Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings brings together researchers in the field of literary, theatre and performance studies. CLIC offers scholars an interdisciplinary network to stimulate research along three key concepts: media, genres and spaces. MEDIA Literature, theatre and performance traditionally belong to specific medial systems. However, these systems often interact in hybrid, intermedial ways. Definitions of ...

The Centre for Literary and Cultural Studies offers an interdisciplinary forum for specialists in literature, theatre, dance, and film, whether doctoral students, researchers, assistants and teaching staff. Through seminars, guest lectures, conferences, and publications advanced research is conducted across the boundaries of individual disciplines, critical methods, genres, cultures and languages. Past initiatives focussed on the novelist ...

The CLIV has grown from the fusion of two existing and active research groups (Literature in Translation, UGent and Center for Literary Translation, VUB) that focus exclusively on literary translation. In recent years, they have studied various modalities of literary translation from different language areas in different literary periods. Again, this study reveals the paradox that, despite the prominent role they play in the unlocking of ...

The basic objective of the RHEA Expertise Center is to contribute to knowledge development on gender, diversity and intersectionality through scientific and interdisciplinary research and education. RHEA is an interfaculty research group and is led by Gily Coene (director) and Karen Celis (codirector). Rhea also provides a platform for researchers from various VUB departments and faculties and also provides advice on equal opportunities and ...

The research topics of this unit include British Romanticism, Scottish literature, periodical studies, and translation and reception studies.

The research topics of this unit include British Romanticism, Scottish literature, periodical studies, and translation and reception studies.

The research group gathers junior and senior researchers with a wide variety of interests and expertise around the teaching and critical study of English literature across periods, genres, and geographical areas.Our research is mainly situated in the following four areas: 19th-Century Literature & Culture, Modernist Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, and Irish Literature. For more details, see ...

Research topics of this unit are:
° Literary theory: development of a historical poetics of narrative prose, from the Middle Ages to 1800.
° Autobiography study: modalities and conditions for the I-discourse during the Ancien Régime.
° Study of narrative strategies: ambiguity and ductus obliquus in the narrative-philosophical discourse of the Enlightenment.
° Legitimization strategies of the literary, scientific and ...