Research
Research projects
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FWO project Shaping Belgian Literature (2019-2024)
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This project examines literary culture in the Southern Low Countries during a formative period in the history of Belgium (1750-1830). In the historiography of the Low Countries, eighteenth-century literature – especially as it was created and received in the Southern part – remained largely unexplored. More importantly, in previous research, the multilingual and hybrid character of this literature has been mostly neglected. Researchers indeed tend to explore either Flemish or Francophone texts. This project addresses the cross-fertilization between different cultures and literatures that this hybrid and multilingual contact zone allowed to happen. To do this, we will mainly focus on literary journals and examine how they document and value but also help to nurture processes of cultural transfer and literary exchange in a crucial time, leading up to the nation’s independence.
PhD students
Completed
2020-2024
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PhD Charlotte van Hooijdonk : Un faible vernis français? Pratiques multilingues, transferts culturels et poétiques médiatiques dans les journaux littéraires des Pays-Bas méridionaux, (hoofdpromotor, met Tom Verschaffel)
Doctoral defense: 6 september 2024
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PhD Vanessa Van Puyvelde: Patchworks in Print. Cultural Community Building and the Shaping of a Belgian reading Public in Literary Journals (1750-1800) (copromotor, met Tom Verschaffel)
Doctoral defense: 18 december 2024
Ongoing
2020-2026
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PhD Louise Dumont: Le théâtre anglois de Pierre-Antoine de La Place, (copromotor, met Dirk Delabastita, U Namur
2021-2025
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PhD FWO Amélie Jaques: The many Voices of Female Authorship
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PhD C1 Merel Waeyaert: Found in Translation
2023-2027
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PhD Laure Primerano : Making the Cut: Collective Biographies and the Shaping of Collective Female Intellectual Authority in Enlightenment Europe (copromotor, met L. van Deinsen)
2024-2027
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Postdoc FWO Charlotte van Hooijdonk: “A country with Literati but no Literature?” The relational dynamics of networks, languages, and genres in proto-Belgian Literature (1795-1830)” (promotor)
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