Projects
Imperial Extractivist Infrastructures: Petrocultural Violence and Resistance in Contemporary Indigenous Literature, Art, and Film KU Leuven
This proposed project, entitled "Imperial Extractivist Infrastructures", will offer the first in-depth study of literary and artistic Indigenous (American, Canadian, and Australian) responses to settler-colonial extractivism from three carefully chosen sites; namely the coal and uranium mines in the Navajo Nation (USA), the Athabasca tar sands (Canada), and the Adani Carmichael coal mining site in Queensland (Australia). The impact of fossil ...
The changing face of medieval Dutch narrative literature in the early period of print (1477-c.1540). University of Antwerp
The end rhyme in Middle Dutch epic literature (ca. 1200-1500): development and relationship to authorship and genres. University of Antwerp
The end rhyme in Middle Dutch epic literature (ca. 1200-1500): development and relationship to authorship and genres. University of Antwerp
Buddhist Ideology and Propaganda in the Indic Northwest: A Study in Avadana Literature Ghent University
Proceeding from the maxim that 'nothing can be understood apart from context', this research projects seeks to do that which is rarely done in the study of Buddhist literature. It advances an ambitious methodology to establish nexus between archaeological, art-historical, epigraphic and textual sources in the Indic Northwest (eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan) around the turn of the Common Era. Focusing on a genre of Buddhist narrative termed ...
Paperback Writer. A Comparative Study of Normative Poetics in American and French Handbooks for Writing Narrative Prose in the 21st Century. KU Leuven
This project analyzes handbooks for creative prose-writing from the 21st century (2000-2015) in an English (primarily American) and French corpus. The project focuses primarily on storytelling as a craft, a learning activity based on strategic insight and the adequate use of a toolbox, as opposed to the idea of literature as art, based on the mystery of original and free creation. How do such handbooks ‘define’, ‘construct’ and legitimate a ...