Projects
The poetics of precarity: Representations of the worker in German literature in the aftermath of the 'Great Depression' (1873-1914) KU Leuven
The financial and economic collapse in 2008 has increased the interest for the literary reflection on economic crises and their social consequences. This project takes this contemporary sensibility and the ways in which it is reflected in contemporary political theory as a vantage point to look back at the German social novels in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 1873. By focusing on the literary representation of the worker in his ...
Academic literacy in German as a foreign language: A corpus-based contrastive analysis of cohesion in written learner language. University of Antwerp
Self-determination and (im)mobility in the Russian-German contemporary novel Ghent University
Increased globalization has paved the way for a broader reception of migration and minoritiesU+2019 literature in German literary studies. The aim of this project is to uncover the fictionalisation of shifts in identity under the influence of processes of (im)mobility in the Russian-German contemporary novel, by focusing on rhetorical and narratological strategies against the Russian-German socio-historical background.
The Writer as Translator and the Translator as Writer. Two interwoven literary Processes in the Works of Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt and Peter Handke. KU Leuven
The starting point of this dissertation is the unique, symbiotic relationship between Peter Handke, Nobel Prize Winner Literature in 2019, and Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt – two writer-translators coming from completely different European traditions, bound to each other by a tight friendship and a close cooperation, who translated each other’s work. More specifically, this PhD thesis examines how Handke translated Goldschmidts novels, Le ...
Authorship verification for the anonymous articles in Bruno Bauer's Allgemeine Literatur-Zeitung. Integrating natural language processing results in the available stylistic, thematic and contextual analyses University of Antwerp
Peripheral Symphonism: Transcultural Form and Glocal Modernism at the Fin de Siècle KU Leuven
Functional and Cognitive Linguistics (grammar and typology). University of Antwerp
Genetic analysis of spore germination in group II Clostridium botulinum KU Leuven
Clostridium botulinum is an anaerobic sporeforming bacterium that is notorious for producing a potent neurotoxin. Spores of C. botulinum can survive mild food processing treatments and subsequently germinate, multiply, produce toxin and cause botulism. Control of spore germination and outgrowth is therefore essential for the safety of mildly processed foods. However, little is known about the process of spore germination in group II C. ...