Projects
Developing User-centred Approaches to Technological Innovation in Literary Translation (DUAL-T) Ghent University
Recent years have seen a growing research interest on the application of translation technology to literary translation workflows, mostly in the form of Machine Translation (MT) or post-editing of MT output. In these studies, literary translators' voices are virtually absent. This project will address the discrepancy between research in Computer Science/AI and Translation Studies, as well as the absence of literary translators from the ...
Reading in Europe today - Reading and writing literary texts in the age of digital humanities. University of Antwerp
Computational Literary Studies Infrastructure Ghent University
Salva nos, Domine: A study of chanted confraternity liturgies and their social contexts in the Southern Low Countries, 1300-1550 (ConfLit). KU Leuven
Everyday Writing in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt (I - VIII AD). A Socio-Semiotic Study of Communicative Variation Ghent University
Non-literary, ‘documentary’ texts from Ancient Egypt have provided and continue to provide a key witness for our knowledge of the administration, education, economy, etc. of the Ancient world. This project argues that since documentary texts represent originals, their external characteristics should also be brought into the interpretation. The project’s driving hypothesis is that ‘communicative variation’ – variation that is functionally ...
Morphosyntactic language skills in deaf children with cochlear implant: a cross-linguistic study on Dutch and German (MORLAS). University of Antwerp
Constructing Age for Young Readers (CAFYR). University of Antwerp
Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe (1710-1920) Ghent University
This project examines a neglected aspect of the social and cultural life in Europe in the modern period: the impact of women editors on public debate. From the 1700s on, European women actively participated in the cultural arena through the journals that they edited. This project advances the hypothesis that periodical editorship enabled these women to take a prominent role in public life, to influence public opinion and to shape ...
Children in Comics: An intercultural history from 1865 to today Ghent University
Owing to their visual essence and status as a popular, modern medium, comics - newspaper strips, comics magazines and graphic novels - provide valuable insight into the transformation fo collective consciousness. This project advances the hypothesis that children in comics are distinctive embodiments of the complex experience of modernity, channeling and tempering modern anxieties and incarnating the freedom denied to adults. In testing this ...