Projects
ZAP office in Swahili and African linguistics Ghent University
ZAP office in Swahili and African linguistics (Koen Bostoen)
Evaluation of literature by professional and layperson critics: A digital and literary sociological analysis of evaluative talk of literature through the prism of literary prizes (2007-2017) Ghent University
Recently, the manager of a Dutch publishing consortium manager stated that literary quality should
be measured and predicted by means of algorithms and big data-based audience research, rather
than by experts. His claim drew ire and caused the exodus of many of established authors; at the
same time, the statement is indicative of a broader societal trend in which the knowledge of
professional 'pundits' is rivalled and ...
Literature and media innovation: the question of genre transformations (LMI) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Older discussions treat the taxonomy of genres as well as the nature of literary ...
Britain in Europe: The Emergence of Post-Insular Identities and Transcultural Discourses in Contemporary British Literature Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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; ...
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 ...
Language and Literature Teaching in the Sixteenth Century: Vergil and Homer at the Leuven Collegium Trilingue KU Leuven
During the Renaissance, humanist thought provoked great changes in school curricula across Europe. Latin and Greek language and literature were taught in a new way, classical writers were read in a different fashion. Whereas these new humanist pedagogical practices have been studied in some detail on a general level, especially with regard to Italy, they remain almost unstudied for the Southern Low Countries. For this reason I envisage to ...