Projects
To fight at the margins: the history of women in boxing and lucha libre in Mexico (1930-2000). University of Antwerp
The Depths of the Megacity. Recent Literary Imaginaries of the Underground in Mexico City KU Leuven
This project proposes to make a fundamental contribution to contemporary literary and urban studies by focusing on the literary representation of Mexico City’s underground spaces. In spite of its remarkable presence in recent Latin American literature, this topic is completely new as a scholarly subject. In narrative texts that take place in Mexico City, subterranean spaces (metro, tunnels, sewers, etc.) frequently appear and imply a ...
Gender, Nationalism, and Sports: Women's Cycling, Boxing, and Catch-Wrestling in Belgium and Mexico in the 1920s to 1990s. University of Antwerp
The "Nepantla" generation: identity discourse in the essays of the second generation of Spanish exiles in Mexico. KU Leuven
Research Project. The Nepantla generation: identity discourse in the essays of the second generation os Spanish exiles in Mexico Ghent University
The project explores the identity discourse in the essayistic texts written by the children of Republican exiles in Mexico. This so-called Nepantla generation, after the Nahuatl word for “between two worlds”, is characterized by its complex and multiple cultural identity. Through a discourse analysis of the essays of a representative sample of authors from this generation, we examine how these ‘Hispanic Mexican’ writers managed to construct ...
Is the Future Ours? Exploring Literature and Politics in Contemporary Mexican Fiction Through the Bildungsroman KU Leuven
This project aims to make an important contribution to the study of contemporary Latin American literature by challenging the idea that it has turned away from politics. The generations of writers born in the 1960s and 1970s have been described as apolitical because of their focus on individuals who are often passive or self-centered, and because of their rejection of former, more politicized literary models. In contrast, I will show how ...
Finding structure in a maze of words: Priming as a guide through the mental lexicon. KU Leuven
It is a well-known finding that the presentation of a related word (e.g., cat) enhances processing of a subsequently presented target (e.g., dog) compared to when the preceding word is unrelated (e.g., car). This phenomenon, called semantic priming, has been studied extensively because it is thought to provide insight into the principles by which the mental lexicon is organized. However, several crucial issues ...
Primed to (finally) find out: Uncovering the mental lexicon via semantic priming KU Leuven
When it comes to language, context is everything. Indeed, the meaning of a word or a sentence can change considerably when taken out of context. As a consequence, the contextual nature of language has been the topic of much research. In this project, I will examine how a single word creates a context for a second word. It is a well-known finding that people recognize a word (e.g., dog) faster when it is preceded by a related word (e.g., cat). ...