Projects
History as “Fairy-ground”: Scottish and Irish Female Voices and the Gothic Imagination (1780-1830) KU Leuven
The project inscribes itself in Gothic criticism’s recognition of the temporal dynamic of Gothic narratives. It articulates the Gothic as an aesthetic that negotiates the temporal and ideological relation between past and present. The study examines how female authors from Scotland and Ireland stage the past in Gothic texts in the Romantic Period (1780-1830). In particular, it focuses on the emplotment and anachronisation of the ...
The Environmental Imagination in African Francophone Literature. An Ecopoetic Inquiry into Maghrebi, Sub-Saharan and Indian Ocean Islands Fiction (1990-present) Ghent University
Ecological issues occupy an ever-growing place in contemporary literature. I intend to examine how francophone novels and novellas by Maghrebi, Sub-Saharan and Indian Ocean islands authors address the environmental problems of Africa. As there was an ecological leap forward in the African literary imagination as a consequence of market globalisation and the establishment of capitalist regimes after fall of the Berlin Wall, I will focus on ...
Kant’s Multi-Layered Account of the Imagination in the Critique of Pure Reason KU Leuven
The imagination is traditionally considered the capacity of the mind to make things present despite their actual absence. Since all knowledge requires that we retain the images of past things, any kind of knowledge can be said to rely on the imagination. Seen in this way, using one’s imagination is not primarily a matter of making things up. Even though many philosophers have recognized this basic function of the imagination, most ...
The outside inside, the inside ouside: emigration ant de imagination of life in Central Morocco. KU Leuven
Historiography, imagination and astronomy in the Renaissance (1400-1650). Ghent University
Imagination and emotions: on the impact of images from an ethical and aesthetic perspective. KU Leuven
The description of natural disasters in the eighteenth century, Oratory, imagination and ideology. Ghent University
The Didascalic Imagination: Contemporary theatrical notebooks as genetic documents of the artistic process Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The power of imagination: Investigating the automatic effects of mental practice. Ghent University
Psychology has always been fascinated by the question of how practice leads to skilled behavior. This question has been tackled by focusing on the emergence of automatic behavior on the basis of overt practice. Practice, however, is not confined to the overt execution of behavior. More covert forms of practice exist, which also lead to performance improvement, namely mental practice. Mental practice can be defined as the symbolic rehearsal ...