Projects
Rebuilding post-revolutionary identities in England, France and Italy: the reception, discussion and stigmatization of unruliness in novels through the periodical press (1816-31) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
periodical press of the Restoration (1816-31) interpreted the many
facets of Unruliness in the reception of national and foreign novels.
The focus will be on the novels’ reviews, which engaged extensively
with the topic of Unruliness, broadly conceived as referring to nonconforming or dissident elements, such as prohibited desires, forms
of ...
Reading Mickey: Mapping the Transnational Reception of a Children's Magazine Ghent University
Disney’s Mickey Mouse character is a global icon, transcending generations, cultures, and media. ‘Reading Mickey’ studies the domestication and reception of the Italian and French Mickey magazine from 1932 until 1968. Unlike the animated movies and albums, these magazines have not yet been fully examined, and even less so from a comparative perspective. These magazines present an opportunity to compare practices of adaptation, appropriation, ...
Traveling words and images. A study of tourist fiction and non-fiction of contemporary Spain and Latin America KU Leuven
This project focuses on the impact of tourism on contemporary fiction and non-fiction in the Hispanic world. While both Spain and Latin America can boast a long tradition of travel writing, tourism’s more recent impact on their cultures has gone largely unnoticed. This is due to persisting prejudices concerning tourism as an inferior, more mass-consumerist practice than travelling, as well as to a predominantly sociological approach in ...
Sabbatical David Martens: Exhibit literature KU Leuven
This sabbatical period will be devoted to research into the relationship between literature and exhibition. The focus will be on two main activities: completing a work in progress and laying the groundwork for future research. On the one hand, I will be finalizing a book devoted to the compilation of exhibitions that many institutions have devoted to writers from the French-speaking cultural world since the early 2000s (Musée du Louvre, ...