Projects
Happiness and Agency in Queer Young Adult Literature: An Exploration of Empowering Scenarios in Literary Emotionality University of Antwerp
Goods, Virtue and Happiness in the Early Academy KU Leuven
This project investigates the ethical theories developed in the Early Academy, the phase of the Academy immediately following the death of Plato. The aim is to show that these theories contributed significantly to the dynamics of the debate on goods, virtue and happiness in the 4th century BCE.
In antiquity, there were two major, competing answers to the question of how happiness, goods and virtue are related. The first model, advanced ...
The malleability of happiness and success in contemporary media: the content of a malleability narrative and its consequences for adolescents’ mental health KU Leuven
The increased prevalence of mental health issues in adolescents has led to societal concerns and has fueled scholarly attention. The relation between appearance ideals in popular media and a dysfunctional body image has been shown to contribute to this wellbeing problem. The current project argues that the contribution of media is not limited to appearance ideals but also includes ideals regarding academic performance, sexuality, romantic ...
Sabbatical Nadia Lie: Tourist Fiction from Latin America. KU Leuven
This application is part of the FWO project G086819N 'Traveling words and images: A Study of Tourist Fiction and Non-Fiction in the Hispanic World' (2019-2022), which I supervise in collaboration with Dagmar Vandebosch (KULeuven campus Kortrijk) and cultural anthropologist Paolo Favero (University of Antwerp). Within this project I am in charge of the general supervision as well as the implementation of WP3, which amounts to writing an ...