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 ...
The Bell, the short story and mid-twentieth-century Irish periodical culture KU Leuven
Through a study of the short fiction and meta-literary statements published in literary magazine The Bell (1940-1954), this project aims to map the impact of The Bell on the promotion, canon formation and definition of the Irish short story in mid-twentieth-century Ireland so as to assess its role in the short story’s rise to fame as the quintessential national genre in Ireland. Detailed literary analysis, grounded in methodologies of ...
Imprinting the Self: The Self-Fashioning of Adivasi Jesuits through the Missionary Periodical Press, 1920-2000 KU Leuven
From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, a sizeable number of Adivasis (indigenous peoples) in Chotanagpur (conterminous with present-day Jharkhand) adopted Christianity. This occurred amidst an evangelising drive by competing missionary societies as also the disenfranchisement of Adivasi land and identity exacerbated by mechanisms of internal colonialism.
The introduction of the printing press and its attendant periodicals by the ...
The house's honour (ghar kī 'izzat): a study of shame in north Indian children and women's periodical and didactic literature (1870s-1940s) Ghent University
A crucial step towards understanding and explaining better socio-cultural norms and historical practices and thus facilitating intercultural dialogue is the consideration of affects. Focusing on a critical moment of the history of India, which saw the refashioning of social norms of behaviour, this project explores the most social emotion, shame, and its expressions in Hindi and Urdu-language literature for women and children to shed light ...
Corpuscollection an online edition of the correspondance of the periodical Van Nu en Straks Ghent University
Aim of the project is an exhaustive digital database of the complete letters written by the collaborators to the literary persiodical Van Nu en Straks (1893-94 1896-1901).
Complex Dynamics in Society: An application of complexity studies on community formation in South West Anatolia during the Hellenistic Period (323-133 BC) KU Leuven
The main goal of this PhD research is to study community formation and development in southwestern Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) during the Iron Age, Achaemenid and (early to mid) Hellenistic periods (8th to 2nd centuries BCE). The main case studies are two neighbouring, contemporaneous communities, Sagalassos and Düzen Tepe. Findings on this local scale are then scaled up to treat community formation dynamics on a sub-regional scale – ...
Challenge for optimal care for people living with HIV in countries with limited resources: findings from observational studies from different settings. Institute of Tropical Medicine
Languages writing history. The impact of language studies beyond linguistics (1700-1860) KU Leuven
Before the study of language was institutionalized, and concentrated, in the discipline of linguistics in the 19th century, languages were central to understanding mankind and, therefore, to scholarship in the humanities. Once historical and linguistic knowledge came to be collected, systematized, categorized, codified, and transmitted in institutionalized disciplines, boundaries arose between the new disciplines. This project aims to focus ...