Projects
The Irish Short Story and The Bell Magazine (1940-1954): Forging a Tradition KU Leuven
This research project will investigate the publication and mediation of the Irish short story in the influential Irish literary periodical The Bell between 1940 and 1954 so as to assess The Bell’s seminal role in the formation of a canon and normative meta-narrative about the short story in Ireland. Through a detailed study of both the actual stories and the views on the short story in The Bell within the larger literary, cultural and ...
Errors outside the lab: the interaction of psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic variables in the production of verb spelling errors in informal computer-mediated communication. University of Antwerp
The collaboration between Giuseppe Ungaretti and Jean Lescure. A process of collaborative creation. University of Antwerp
Strengthening digital research at the UP system: digitization of rare periodicals and training in digital humanities. University of Antwerp
Ascending to and descending from Perfection: The Illustration of John Climacus' Ladder of Divine Ascent (Κλιμαξ Θειας Ανοδου) and its imaginary symbolism in the Byzantine Middle Ages. KU Leuven
Part of the project titled 'Longing for Perfection: Living the Perfect Life in Late Antiquity-A Journey between Ideal and Reality', this proposal for a doctorate research will focus on the Iconography of John Climacus' Ladder of Divine Ascent in the Byzantine milieu, from the 10th century up to the present. In addition to the systematization of the physical characteristics, style and content of the Illustrations, the study will aim, in ...
Collocations in a Flemish Learner Corpus: an approximation to the concept from a pedagogical perspective and its language teaching implications KU Leuven
The Creation of Yang Zhu as A Philisopher in The Republican Era KU Leuven
The fame of Yangism was, in ancient times, as great as Confucianism and Mohism. As a matter of fact, Mohism and Confucianism were considered as equals during the Warring States period and the Han Dynasty, while Yangism being the third greatest school among the Hundred Schools of Thought. It is not until later times that Yangism and Mohism were deemed less than Confucianism. And after the Book Burning and Burial of the Scholars in the Qin ...
The Transmission of De civitate Dei from Late Antiquity until the 15th Century KU Leuven
My PhD research corresponds to one of five different work packages (henceforth WP) within a larger research project supervised by Jeroen De Keyser, Anthony Dupont, Gert Partoens and Andrea Aldo Robiglio, concerning a history of the reception of Augustine’s De civitate Dei (henceforth DCD). This project aims at (1) developing a comprehensive understanding of Augustine’s political thinking through an integrated study of ...
The Secretive Diffusion of the New Philosophy in the Low Countries: Evidence on the Teaching of Cartesian Philosophy from Student Notebooks 1650-1750 KU Leuven
The diffusion of Descartes’ new philosophy was a story of both success and opposition. In the Low Countries, where Descartes has settled in 1628, his dualistic and materialistic physics and metaphysics were welcomed because of their novelty, and rejected because of several incompatible views with the prevalent Aristotelian, c.q. Catholic doctrine. Yet, if this famous chapter of the history of philosophy seems to have been written already in ...