Projects
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, ...
The networked author: rethinking contemporary authorship through comics after the digital turn Ghent University
This project aims to investigate contemporary authorship in comics, examining how the concept is understood and focusing on the way comics are created, shared, and read in a digital environment. Comics are an ideal case study because they lie at the intersection of narrative and visual culture, displaying practices, symbolic apparatuses and production structures similar to, or shared by, other media. In particular, I argue that comics after ...
Happiness and Agency in Queer Young Adult Literature: An Exploration of Empowering Scenarios in Literary Emotionality University of Antwerp
In-between Identities: generation 1.5 in Moroccan immigrants' literature in Spain. University of Antwerp
The Practice of Intertextuality in Hagiographical Writing. A Literary-Study Approach to the Presence of the Bible in Middle Byzantine Hagiography (8th-10th c.) KU Leuven
The overall goal of this project is to carry out the first comprehensive study of Biblical intertextuality in Middle Byzantine Hagiography (8th-10th c.). This study proceeds from, and will answer to, the question of the way in which Biblical imagery and quotations were both a means of literary expression and tools of communication with the audience(s). In order to achieve this main goal, I will investigate my research corpus (which consists ...
Spectacular Claudian: Immersive scenes in late antique poetry Ghent University
My project focuses on the immersive potential of epic scenes involving Roman spectacles in late Latin poetry. By spectacles I refer to the known popular Roman events, such as chariot races, hunting games, gladiatorial fights, musical or stage competitions. In particular, I focus on two influential poets from the end of the 4th and the beginning of the 5th century CE, Claudian and Prudentius.
My aim is to analyze how such “spectacular” ...
Narrative, Metaphor and Metamorphosis: The Ecological Potential of Contemporary Children's Literature Ghent University
Situated at the intersection of the study of children’s literature, ecocriticism and cognitive literary criticism, this project revisits the question of the transformational potential of children’s literature in light of the imaginative challenges raised by the Anthropocene, a newly identified epoch in which the geological make-up of the earth has been transformed by human impact. Starting from the assumption that, in order for substantial ...
À l'oeuvre! The writer's oeuvre in Dutch modern literary culture KU Leuven
À l'oeuvre! The writer's oeuvre in Dutch modern literary culture KU Leuven
For centuries, the writer’s oeuvre has had a clear impact on the production and reception of literature. Literary histories and library collections are organized around this notion; individual texts are often related to and/or interpreted from a writer’s oeuvre, by professional as well as non-professional readers. Authors, too, negotiate their posture by means of their oeuvres; and in literary texts, the idea of coherence with an oeuvre is ...