Projects
Bringing the Bard back home? The English translation of foreign Shakespeare criticism in the long 19th century KU Leuven
Historicizing Post-‐9/11 American Literature and Criticism through Biopolitics and a Genealogy of Statelessness Ghent University
This project will demonstrate how a genealogy of
statelessness can be used as a framework to examine previously unexplored links between pre-‐and post-‐9/11 American literature.
It will expose the enduring significance of the concept of ‘bare life’ in American culture by
comparing the wandering protagonist from the
9/11 canon with earlier historical and aesthetic
representations of ...
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. Ghent University
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 ...
All for Cultural Heritage@KU Leuven and Cultural Heritage@KU Leuven for all KU Leuven
The KU Leuven Institute for Cultural Heritage wishes to facilitate and support coordinated actions in the domain of cultural heritage. The institute is founded on a unique composition of central services and research units who believe they can do more, when together. In line with international research agendas on cultural heritage, the institute wishes to stimulate research on data science and knowledge sharing, the role of cultural heritage ...
Art and Signaling in a Cultural Species KU Leuven
In recent years, the research field of the evolution of art has witnessed contributions from a wide range of disciplines across the "three cultures" (i.e., humanities, social sciences and natural sciences). In this thesis, I make both a critical review of existing explanations, and try to do elucidate the evolution of art by employing insights, methods and concepts from different disciplines (esp. biology, philosophy, and ...
Recycle or perish? A multi-method investigation into the cultural value and industrial sustainability recycle film cultures in small Western European film industries Ghent University
Since the start of the new millennium, a significant change took place in the production strategies of European film industries. Inspired by Hollywood-like production and distribution practices, European film industries started to increasingly focus on producing film remakes, sequels, and TV spin-offs, which we take together under the newly coined concept of ‘recycle film cultures’. Quite surprisingly, this is not only the case for the major ...
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them their cultures count in school is best: The role of teachers in immigrant-origin adolescents’ development of cultural orientations KU Leuven
The Unidroit Convention on stolen or illegally exported cultural objects (1995): a critical analysis Hasselt University
Hybrid literature, hybrid agency: the status of the literary text in Edward Said’s cultural analysis Ghent University
Abstract (max. 60 woorden): This project investigates the status of literary texts and its implications on the conceptualization of agency in Edward Said’s criticism. By submitting Said’s contrapuntal approach to a close rhetorical reading, this project analyzes the incorporation and application of the intertexts Said draws upon and their foundational influence on the status of literature and the correlating view on agency.