Projects
The Romance between Greece and the West. Heroes and Heroines in French, Anglo-Norman and English medieval narrative." Ghent University
Medieval romance is arguably the most influential secular literary genre of the European Middle Ages. Its history has not been written yet. In order to enhance our understanding of this history (both conceptually and cross-culturally), this project offers the first reconstruction and interpretation of the persistence of (ancient) novelistic and (late antique and medieval)hagiographical traditions in French, Anglo-Norman and English medieval ...
Children’s social evaluations of English elements in Dutch: an experimental approach Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This project inquires into the emergence of children’s language attitudes by pinpointing the development of three components of social evaluation attested in adults: dimensionality, predictable variability, and automaticity. To this end, ...
Neuropilin 2-gemedieerde semaphorin signaalcasacde in bot. English title Neuropilin 2-mediated semaphorin signaling in bone. KU Leuven
Osteoporosis and osteoporosis-related fractures remain an important public health issue. Most available treatments focus on inhibiting bone resorption whereas bone anabolic therapies are limited. A comprehensive understanding of the intercellular communication within the bone microenvironment is crucial for the development of novel therapies that not only inhibit bone resorption but also enhance formation. Recent studies indicate ...
The Post-Novelistic Novel: Genre, Agency, and Cultural Authority in the Contemporary Anglophone Novel. Ghent University
This project explores formal innovations in de contemporary Anglophone novel in light of notions such as trauma, melancholia, and loss. It investigates the double hypopthesis [1] that the negotiation of such notion is mobilized to reflect on the contemporary status of the novel genre itself and [2] that these formal negotiations allow the contemporary novel to give shape to new forms of agency, collectivity, and subjectivity.
The renewal of the historical novel after 1975 Ghent University
Study of, ao, the difference between the new and classic historical novel. Study of the renewal of the historical novel as one of the driving focces behind the general renewal within literature during the lak 20th century.
Urban design and narrative cronotopes in the postwar novel Ghent University
comparative research on the congruencies between the discourse of architects and urbanists on the one hand and in fictional texts on the other. The research focuses on fictional architects and urbanists in Postwar Western Literature.
Re-mapping the transnational spread of the novel: French pseudo-translations in German translation (1731-1776). KU Leuven
The Living-On of Authors: Canonical Writers of Modernity Represented in Recent Biographical Novels KU Leuven
The Living On of Authors: Canonical Writers of Modernity Represented in Recent Biographical Novels
The object of this research is to chart two important phases in the evolution of author revival biofiction, the 1980s and the 1990s. Biofiction, the hybrid literary genre that transforms real historical lives into material for novels, has risen to unprecedented visibility around the turn of the 21st century, culminating ...
“Righting” the Black Atlantic: Expatriate African American Writing for an Age of Involuntary Displacement KU Leuven
Starting from the observation that the critical vocabulary for transnational mobility is not adapted to the current unprecedented numbers of involuntarily displaced persons worldwide, this project aims to develop a novel account of the relation between mobility, literature, and human rights. More specifically, it updates the generative notion of the "Black Atlantic" by foregrounding the understudied role of juridical realities and imaginaries ...