Projects
Visual and textual content re-purposing FOR(4) architecture, Design and video virtual reality games KU Leuven
V4Design will develop a platform that provides architects, video game creators and designers of any expertise with innovative tools necessary to enhance and simplify the creative phase of the designing process. The main idea behind V4Design is to reuse (i) visual: movies, documentaries paintings and images from other artwork and (ii) textual content: from textual documentations in films, critics, catalogues, museum guides, and re-purpose it ...
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 ...
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 ...
Academic vocabulary knowledge and its relationship to textual comprehension Ghent University
This project explores receptive knowledge of academic vocabulary in L2 Spanish learners at the university level, and the effects of this knowledge in textual comprehension. Four main goals of this project are: 1) to develop a corpus of academic language in Spanish, 2) to develop an academic test that considers the polysemic nature of these words, 3) to develop textual comprehension tests, and 4) to compare knowledge of the most frequent words ...
“See What I Mean”: Mapping Textual Space in Radical Poetry AP Hogeschool Antwerpen
Female Faces, Intellectual Identities. Visual and Textual Portraits of Learned Women in Early Modern Collective Biographies KU Leuven
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 ...
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.