Projects
Literatures Without Borders. A Historical-Comparative Study of Premodern Literary Transnationalism University of Antwerp
Literature that bypassed the censor! The alternative literary circuit in Antwerp at the end of the seventeenth century. University of Antwerp
The literary trajectories of French and Belgian Jewish women writers who lived through the Occupation in the 1940s: A case study. KU Leuven
The aim for this research project is to map out the literary trajectories of Jewish women writers who lived through the Occupation in France and Belgium in the 1940s. The project thus wants to contribute to the existing body of work on women’s writing from the WWII period by focusing on a case that has not been studied much thus far: that of Jewish women writers. Moreover, for France and Belgium, the specific context of the Occupation adds to ...
Daily life and crisis in literary journals. A multiperspective reading of diaries written during the Second World War Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The literary representation of the economic in the German novel, 1855 # 1901 KU Leuven
This dissertation presents a new perspective for the study of the German bourgeois realistic prose, by parallelizing literary poetics, financial epistemology, commercial procedures of observation and registration. Based on a corpus of literary programmes, economic studies, commercial and financial manuals, a poetology of credit-economic knowledge is first established. The nexus of these apparently very different paradigms of aesthetics and ...
À l'oeuvre! The writer's oeuvre in Dutch modern literary culture KU Leuven
À l'oeuvre! The writer's oeuvre in Dutch modern literary culture KU Leuven
For centuries, the writer’s oeuvre has had a clear impact on the production and reception of literature. Literary histories and library collections are organized around this notion; individual texts are often related to and/or interpreted from a writer’s oeuvre, by professional as well as non-professional readers. Authors, too, negotiate their posture by means of their oeuvres; and in literary texts, the idea of coherence with an oeuvre is ...
Philippines at the crossroads: mapping the international presence in the Philippine literary field in Spanish between 1872 and 1945. University of Antwerp
The Significance of the “other” in Christian Salvation: A Historical, Literary and Theological Analysis of Clement of Alexandria’s Quis Dives Salvetur? KU Leuven
Clement of Alexandria, a second-century Christian theologian and apologist, emphasizes the vertical and horizontal dimensions of salvation in the Christian life. While his trilogy primarily addresses the vertical aspect, this study argues that his homily Quis Dives Salvetur? predominantly explores the horizontal dimension. The research, moreover, identifies a gap in the understanding of QDS, arguing that the commonly interpreted “wealth ...