Projects
Constructing Adolescent Minds in Experimental Fiction for Young Readers: A Genetic Approach to Aidan Chambers' Dance series. University of Antwerp
Artificial Creation and Procreation in Late-Victorian Short Fiction KU Leuven
This thesis investigates the connections between creativity and childbirth in fin-de-siècle short fiction. It questions how late-Victorian perceptions of gender, sexuality, science, and art informed the fashion in which artificial and biological creation were represented in the literature of the time. The corpus under consideration includes short stories and novellas by H. G. Wells, R. L. Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Machen, Oscar ...
The Paradox of Interactive Fiction: a New Approach to Imaginative Participation in Light of Interactive Fiction Experiences. University of Antwerp
The Paradox of Interactive Fiction: A New Approach to Imaginative Participation in Light of Interactive Fiction Experiences University of Antwerp
The Paradox of Interactive Fiction: A New Approach to Imaginative Participation in Light of Interactive Fiction Experiences. University of Antwerp
Comic Modernism: The Reception of Aristophanes in British Poetry, Fiction, and Criticism, 1900-1940 KU Leuven
This research project aims to examine the presence and effect of ancient Greek comedy in British modernist literary culture. The dominant view of modernist literature as a profoundly serious endeavor has so far prevented a sustained study of the status of comedy in modernism’s literary legacy. By focusing on the reception of Aristophanic comedy, this project proposes an untrodden path into this field. It uncovers the keen interest modernist ...
Artists' Lives in Dutch and Flemish biographical fiction (1918-2008): narratology, poetics, dynamics. KU Leuven
The realization of satirical discourse in 17th century translations (1641-1645) of Spanish satirical fiction KU Leuven
The purpose of this study is to investigate the creation of the satirical discourse in Dutch translations of Spanish satirical narrative prose texts from the peak period 1641-1645, a time when translations prevailed over local literature in the Dutch Republic. Spanish picaresque and satirical prose texts remained present throughout the 17th century, at the end of which the Spanish model can be found in local literary prose texts (Leemans, ...
The rhythm of revolting aesthetics. A participatory action research in the audiovisual arts of Maghrebi diaspora in Brussels Ghent University
By engaging with self-affirming autonomous, but too often omitted forms of authorship in the audio-visual arts of Maghrebi diaspora in Brussels, the proposed research challenges the limits of visual anthropology as a field of study. Pursuing the aesthetic turn in political science and postcolonial studies and the decolonial turn in aesthetic theory, it proposes to analyze the rhythm of revolting aesthetics, or the various ways audio-visual ...