Projects
Literature and Pornography: a textual and contextual study of Dutch novels in the 1960s and 1970s. KU Leuven
The interaction between pornography and modern fiction has rarely been examined in Dutch literary studies. The present proposal seeks to remedy this by focusing on a corpus of pornographic novels from the 60s and 70s written by renowned authors (Ferron, Geeraerts, Heeresma en Krijgelmans) who represent different forms of literature. The aim is twofold: (1) to contextualize these pornographic texts and determine their institutional position in ...
Silent voices: A Digital Study of the Herne Charterhouse as a Textual Community (ca. 1350-1400). University of Antwerp
Transnational Textual Cultures: Study Tekstuel Condition, Translation, Mediation and Literary Historiography. Ghent University
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Models of Textual Communities and Digital Palaeography of the Dead Sea Scrolls. KU Leuven
The present project will make full use of the unique potential offered by the Dead Sea Scrolls to enquire after a micro-society in antiquity organized around a common understanding of texts#a textual community. Analyses of the scrolls# contents indicate heterogeneity and religious diversity within the collection of texts on different levels, which have either been attributed to diachronic developments within early Judaism, or have been ...
Interconnected Texts. A graph-based computational approach to Byzantine paratexts as nodes between textual transmission and cultural and linguistic developments Ghent University
This project aims to study patterns in a corpus of paratexts from Byzantine manuscripts, to elucidate the interconnectedness of material book production, motivations for textual transmission, and linguistic developments. This will aid, and be aided by, the development of new digital tools, equipped to detect variations and patterns in a fluid, fragmented, and heavily entangled textual corpus.
The Life of a Buddhist Manuscript: The Mūlasarvastivadin Dīrghāgama Manuscript, its Influence on Buddhist Textual Production, and the Development of Canonical Buddhist Material in the First Millennium of the Common Era Ghent University
The scope of this project revolves around a close study of the Dīrghāgama manuscript (The Collection of Long Discourses), an important collection of Buddhist sūtras detailing the discourses of the historical figure known as the Buddha Gautama. This manuscript is the only surviving witness of this textual collection as it was transmitted by the Mūlasarvāstivāda Buddhist tradition, one of the three major Buddhist traditions from which the ...
Creative undoing and textual scholarship: a rapprochement between genetic criticism and scholarly editing (CUTS). University of Antwerp
Proposed Research Title: The Ideological and Textual Research on Mozi’s Edition Compiled in the Yongle Canon KU Leuven
The Yongle Canon is the first and largest encyclopedia in the world which has only 815 volumes left. In 1986, Zhonghua Shuju中華書局 published a photocopy of the Yongle Canon’s 797 volumes. The 10th book preserved the whole catalogs of 22877 volumes, in which edited two lost volumes:“ Volume 54, ‘Shangtong’<尙同> chapter of Mozi《墨子》” and “Volume 1814, the Mohism墨家”. According to the Index of the Yongle Canon《永樂大典索引》, there are four existing ...
Transnational collaboration in contemporary refugee literature: authorship, textual effects, comparisons KU Leuven
This project studies the conceptual, textual and political implications of collaborative writing in a transnational context, i.e. involving authors with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. It focuses on the increasingly prominent genre of refugee literature, in which a considerable number of recent publications are co-written by refugees and other authors, often (Western) professional writers or journalists who are not necessarily ...