Projects
Constructions of a new comics readership through children’s material culture: the rise of comics for very young readers in France and Belgium. Ghent University
Taking the Alain Van Passen comics magazine collection as its starting point, this project shows how comics for very young readers (less than 8 years of age, who are gradually acquiring reading skills) has been established, since 1925, as a growing category in comics publishing, coinciding with investments in children’s material culture, through the novelization, dramatization and animation of comics.
From Dale Arden to Valentina. Americanisation and gender representation in Italian comics, 1934-1965. Ghent University
Comics are a powerful means through which American values reached Italy in the 1930s and became part of its culture. With their formative potential influence on younger readers and wide distribution, comics provide a unique line of enquiry for exploring cultural changes, as both a reflection of and a contributor to such changes. My project explores the evolution of Italian comics from the 1930s to the 1960s, focusing on gender discourse and ...
Time-Travelling Boxes? French History Comics as a New Way of Considering History. Ghent University
Lately, the assumption that comics are only made for entertainment and lack historical objectivity has tended to be obscured by a new function: historical fiction and nonfiction comics have established themselves as a laboratory for reflection on practices and meanings of historical writing, and have become both a phenomenon and a symbol. A phenomenon, for in France, since the 1990s, historical comics have been reaching a growing readership ...
Conjuring Phantoms: A Comparative Study of Trauma in Comics Ghent University
This project aims to analyze representations of individual and collective trauma in comics through a comparative, cross-cultural study. Theories of the implications of comics styles and their interaction with other media are combined with studies on the representation of trauma in private and collective contexts for bringing out the distinctive ways in which comics convey trauma and foster engagement.
Call Ghosts: A comparative study of trauma in comics Ghent University
The use of adaptive logics for the practice and the philosophy of mathematics and the use of mathematical tools for the abstract analysis of adaptive logics Ghent University
This project concerns an investigation into three aspects of the relation between mathematics and adaptive logics (AL's): it is investigated how (a) AL's can be used for the formal modeling of the mathematical practice, (b) AL's can solve problems of the foundations of mathematics, and © mathematical techniques can be used for the abstract study of AL's.