Projects
From "black as ebony" to "Black as ink": The Dutch and Flemish translations and retellings of "Snow White" in the literary-historical reception of Grimm's fairy tales. University of Antwerp
From "black as ebony" to "black as ink"; The Dutch and Flemish variants of "Snow White" in the literary-historical reception of Grimm's fairy tales. University of Antwerp
Towards a greater accessibility of audiovisual media: exploring machine translation for audio description from English into Dutch. University of Antwerp
National theory in Dutch epics (1766-1795): formation of a historical experience? Ghent University
The central focus is the way in which Dutch epics published during the reign of Stadtholder William V (1766-1795) guide the reader toward a historical experience. In this process, the past is used in function of contemporary political ideologies. This research studies both 18th-century Dutch literature and the conceptual question of the relations between literature and historiography.
Measuring linguistic attitudes with auditory affective priming: Attitudinal variation towards varieties of Dutch KU Leuven
The objective of this work is twofold. It sets out to contribute to the study of language attitudes on a methodological as well as a descriptive level. The main goal of the study is the methodological one. Notwithstanding some exceptions (e.g. Preston 1982), quantitative language attitude research has known little methodological innovation since the introduction of the matched-guise technique in the 1960s (Lambert et al. 1960). This relative ...
They have travelled farther and more extensively in spirit and personally": the position of the late Middle Dutch travel narrative Tvoyage van Mher Joos van Ghistele (ca. 1490) in medieval etnography. University of Antwerp
Vanden Twaelf dogheden: an exemplary study of the functions, distributuin and impact of Middle Dutch mustical writing Ghent University
the proposed project wants to examine the function, distribution and carry-over of a 14th-century mustical treatise, vanden twaelf dogheden, and in broader sense the development and impact of medieval and early modern spiritual literature.
From Valla’s Dialectica to Stevin’s Bewysconst: Humanist Philosophy of Language and the Emergence of Dutch Vernacular Logic KU Leuven
The main goal of this project is to study the earliest developments of Dutch vernacular logic. While there exists a large body of literature pertaining to the development of vernacular logic traditions in Western Europe as well as on the development of Dutch as a scientific language, hardly any research has been conducted on the specific area of Dutch vernacular logic. In order to address this gap, the project will focus on a corpus of about ...
Executive team decision making under stress. A multiple-case study in the Dutch financial sector KU Leuven
Executive team decision making under stress: A multiple-case study in the Dutch financial industry
Every day, executives around the globe take important strategic decisions that can cause great harm. The Global Financial Crisis, BP’s oil spill in the Mexican Gulf and the two consecutive air crashes with the Boeing 737 Max vividly demonstrate how severe the effects of ill-taken decisions can be. Beneath these disasters there ...