Projects
The infrastructure of globalisation. The printing press of the Southern netherlands and the creation of the Spanish colonial empire in Peru, 1535-1800. KU Leuven
A Respeaking and Collaborative Game-Based Approach to Building a Parsed Corpus of European Spanish Dialects Ghent University
The study of dialectal microvariation of Spanish spoken in Spain has until recently mainly focused on lexical and phonetic features. The morphosyntax of these dialects, on the contrary, remains largely unexplored, despite the recent surge in interest in dialect grammars. This is due to the lack of large annotated dialectal corpora. The proposed project aims to fill this lacuna and will create the first morphosyntactically annotated and ...
The "Nepantla" generation: identity discourse in the essays of the second generation of Spanish exiles in Mexico. KU Leuven
What stays and what goes? Monitoring patterns of recent language change in Spanish youth language Ghent University
Recent important sociocultural changes, such as the expansion of mass media, have profoundly changed language interaction, especially between teenagers. This project aims to investigate how the Spanish teen language has changed over the past two decades. Concretely, the project has four main objectives. First, it will investigate the rate and nature of language change by monitoring six characteristics operating at the lexical and syntactic ...
Spanish American Canonical Writers in the contemporary narrative prose of the Hispanic Carribean, Argentina and Chili (1990-2010). University of Antwerp
Sovereignty and Constitutional Democracy: An inquiry into the Contribution of the Spanish Scholastics and their 17th Century Successors. KU Leuven
Most theories of constitutional democracy up to the present day are conceived for a territorially confined area that is traditionally labelled the (nation-)state. However, when thinking through its basic principles and pushing them into the international realm, two main challenges come to light. Since all human beings should be given equal moral consideration it is hard to justify existing boundaries. On which grounds should ...
On the crossroads of literature and science. The essayist and the scientific field in Huxley, Ortega y Gasset and KU Leuven
The general aim of this thesis is to provide a study of the interdiscursive relations (Maingueneau 2004) between literature and science during the period of 1900-1950. More specifically we will study these interactions within the essayistic work of three writers – Paul Valéry (1871-1945), José Ortega y Gasset (1873-1955) and Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) – whose fascination with science has often been analyzed in the past (Robinson-Valéry 1983; ...
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 ...
In-between Identities: generation 1.5 in Moroccan immigrants’ literature in Spain Ghent University
In recent years, migration has become one of the defining features and preoccupations of European societies and a prominent literary theme. During the 1970s and 1980s, Spain experienced a wave of Moroccan migration that peaked at the beginning of the 1990s. Representations of Moroccan immigrants in Spanish media and literature have tended to be negative, shaped by a long history of tension between the two countries going back to al-Andalus, ...