Projects
An ancient world of manners. A multimodal approach to politeness theory through Greek documentary papyri Ghent University
This postdoc proposal aims to investigate interpersonal relationships and social interactions in Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (III BCE-VII CE) through Greek documentary papyri. The research will use the linguistic framework of historical politeness, which will be applied in an innovative way, by including a multimodal dimension. In contrast to literary sources, documentary papyri provide a pivotal witness on all social classes, offering ...
Special Research Fund Professorship in Ancient Greek linguistics and historical sociolinguistics Ghent University
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
Code-switching in Neo-Latin literature during the early age of printing (ca. 1470–1550): Latin between Greek and the vernaculars in the multilingual Low Countries KU Leuven
My main aim is to conduct a meticulous analysis of the literary position of Neo-Latin in the multilingual landscape of Renaissance Europe during the first century of commercialized printing, taking the Low Countries as my case study. In this area, Neo-Latin got increasing competition from other languages as vehicles of literature, thought, and supra-regional communication, especially the vernaculars and Greek. What is more, speakers and ...
Tracing semantic change in Greek derivational morphology: a computational, distributional-semantic approach KU Leuven
From Chaos to Order - the Creation of the World. New Views on the Reception of Platonic Cosmogony in Later Greek Thought, Pagan and Christian. KU Leuven
Research on the reception of Platonic Cosmogony in Later Greek Thought, Pagan and in Christian comments on Genesis 1 - 3.
Plutarch’s Politicians and the People: Popular Politics in the 'Parallel Lives' and the Greek Cities of the Roman Empire Ghent University
This project studies mass-elite relations in the Greek cities of the Roman empire by examining Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, a second-century AD collection of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen from classical Athens to Republican Rome. Up till now, historians have explored these biographies as sources on the periods they describe, whereas Plutarch scholars have focused on their function as a programme for moral self-improvement. This ...