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  1. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in Cyberspace: Fan Fiction and Cognitive Narratology
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    I examine how the storyworld of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is re-presented in fan fiction from the Derbyshire Writers’ Guild (Dwiggie.com). I argue that, unlike Austen, the members of this fan community tend to prioritise the individual...

    Fields of research Narratology,  The fictional,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  2. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    (Re)writing the Machine: Modernism, Gender and Technology
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project researches the relations between literature, gender and technology in the works of three early twentieth-century British women writers: Bryher (pseudonym of Annie Winifred Ellerman), Mina Loy and Nancy Cunard. It starts from the...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  3. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Enlightenment at War: Epic Poetry, the Citizen and Discursive Bridges to the Military (1740-1800)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In current debates about Western identity, the Enlightenment is associated with reason and civic emancipation, but not with war enthusiasm. It was however Enlightenment thinking that brought representations of civic and military behaviour into a...

    Fields of research Literature from the Benelux Countries,  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland,  Narratology and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Poet-Collectors during the Cold War: Poetry as Queer Archive
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project explores the ways in which American experimental poets struggled to create poetry that countered the Cold War ideology, and examines how the method of collecting-archiving was used in their efforts. The Cold War ‘containment culture’...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Poetics,  Lyric poetry and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Conjuring Phantoms: A Comparative Study of Trauma in Comics
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Maaheen Ahmed's postdoctoral project is on trauma in contemporary comics, relying on a broad definition of trauma to encompass the aftermath of large-scale events (the two world wars, 9/11) as well as the reverberations of psychological damage in...

    Fields of research Comic,  Literature of the 20th century,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    The Voices of Literature: Radio, Periodicals, and Cultural Conflict (1922-1939)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project is situated at the intersection of periodical studies and literary radio studies. With the introduction of sound studies into literary studies, radio has become an important focal point in modernist studies. Modernist authors made use of...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Intermediality,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Imagining Climate Change: Fiction, Memory, and the Anthropocene
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This FWO-funded research project (2016-2020) explores how imaginative literature has responded to the representational and existential challenges thrown up by climate change. It combines theoretical argument with case studies of Anglophone literary...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Narratology
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Hybrid literature, hybrid agency: the status of the literary text in Edward Said’s cultural analysis
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In this project I investigate the status of literary artifacts in Edward Said’s theory and reading practice and his correlating conceptualization of agency. Previous scholars have identified an irreconcilable tension in Said’s oeuvre between concepts...

    Fields of research Literary theory,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Reassembling Modernism: Anglo-French Networks, Periodicals, Literary Analysis
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project examines Anglo-French literary networks at the beginning of the twentieth century. If scholars have traditionally focused on American, British, or French authors in isolation, the present study explores their interconnections. It...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  French literature,  Literature of the 19th century and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Literary and Intellectual History of European Romanticism in China (1894-1937)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This research project investigates the influence of political and literary romanticism on the literary works of early 20th century Chinese authors, in particular of Lu Xun.

    Fields of research East Asian literature,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Antigone in/as Transition. A Study on the Performing Arts Status Quo in Europe (in its Transcontinental Contexts)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The lack of analyses of contemporary Antigone performances was already noted in 1991 (Loraux 1991), and since then it still has not been adequately addressed. Antigone in/as Transition brings together politics and psychoanalysis/philosophy from a...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  12. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Painting Themselves: A Transnational Approach to National Self-Portraiture
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This PhD project focused on a group of sketches, which were popular throughout Europe around 1840. The sketches, bearing titles like "les Français peints par eux-mêmes" and "Los Españoles pintados por sí mismos", aimed to underline national identity...

    Fields of research Literature and visual studies,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  13. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “Agents of Change: Women Editors and Socio-Cultural Transformation in Europe, 1710-1920″ (acronym WeChangEd) is a five-year research project funded by an ERC Starting Grant (2015-2020). It is directed by Marianne Van Remoortel and based at the ...

    Fields of research Textual criticism, editing, codicology,  Literature and sociology,  Literature and cultural studies and 3 more
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  14. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Latin to Greek. The Latinity of the Ancient Greek Love Novel
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    While the ancient Greek novels have been shown to absorb preceding Greek and eastern traditions, not much systematic attention has been paid to how they use, address or confront preceding Latin traditions. This project is designed to fill this gap, a...

    Fields of research Novel,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.)
    Created on: 17.06.2019
  15. Category: Projects
    Institutions: Ghent University (UGent)
    Reception of the First and Second Sophistic and Platonic philosophy in the Pseudo-Clementine Literature
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The aim of this research is an analysis of the influences of Plato and the First and Second Sophistic in the Pseudo-Clementines . Until now, the study of philosophy in the Pseudo-Clementines has largely remained limited to the possible stoic...

    Fields of research Literature and theology/study of religions,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature of antiquity (until 5th century A.D.)
    Created on: 17.06.2019