Projects
A Tale of Spain: Historical Novels in English by Spanish Exiles during the 1820s and 1830s Ghent University
This project focuses on historical novels written in English by Spanish exiles in London from 1822 to 1834. It examines how these writers, arriving in Britain during the heyday of Walter Scott, embraced the new form of historical novel he innovated. The project explores how the standpoint of exile transforms the genre and its reflection upon history and national identity.
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 ...
Nonfinite supplements in the recent history of English KU Leuven
Nonfinite supplements in the recent history of English
This dissertation reports the results of a comprehensive corpus-based analysis of subjectless ing- and ed-supplements, such as (1)-(4), in LModE and PDE. Supplements are constructions in the clausal periphery that can be characterised as follows. First, they do not fulfil a core syntactic function within the matrix clause. Second, their presence (or absence) does ...
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 Archive Novel KU Leuven
This research project considers the relationship between the contemporary novel and the archive. The thesis takes its starting point from both the practical and theoretical developments which have transformed our understanding of the archive from a static repository of a documentary history of the past, to an active framework through which the present is increasingly documented in real time. From this basis, this project examines the manner ...
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.