Projects
The embarrassment of riches? Inequality and the Dutch material culture. Amsterdam, 1581-1780. University of Antwerp
Multilingual landscapes and linguistic vitality in urban surroundings: case-studies of Brussels and Amsterdam. Ghent University
This project aims to address the vitality and structured linguistic hierarchies of languages used and displayed in the linguistic landscapes of Brussels and Amsterdam by means of quantitative and qualitative methodologies as well as geographical analyses. The project also aims to address the current conceptual void and lack of clarity on the relation between vitality and linguistic landscapes in general.
Research stay at VU Amsterdam on inter-municipal cooperation in the Netherlands Hasselt University
Cataloguing Customs of Trade: Looking Behind the Labels (Amsterdam and Lyon, 1700-1730) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Literatures Without Borders. A Historical-Comparative Study of Premodern Literary Transnationalism University of Antwerp
Sociolinguistic gatekeeping with indexical variation: a quantitative-qualitative investigation of the endexical value of Standard and Colloquial Belgian Dutch variation in 'elderspeak' in Flemish nursing homes KU Leuven
In many Western societies, elders (>65 years) are gradually becoming a larger demographic (OECD Data, 2016), yet at the same time, a complaint frequently heard among the older generations is that people no longer respect their elders. This complaint is supported by a linguistic phenomenon studied in Sociolinguistics known as ‘elderspeak’ (Kemper, 1994). Elderspeak refers to a cluster of linguistic features utilized by younger adults to ...
Partners in Innovation: Women Publishers as Knowledgeable Agents in the Low Countries' Book Trade (1550-1750) KU Leuven
The prototypical image of the knowledgeable agent has long been that of a man. By addressing the historical roots of this gender bias, this project reveals a different lineage. Based on case-studies of female entrepreneur-publishers, recent scholarship has suggested that the role of women in the knowledge production was more significant than hitherto accepted. However, as these female publishers were hidden behind imprints like “printed by ...
Sodomy: A Tale of Middle-Sized Cities. Rethinking Homoerotic Desires in the Eighteenth-Century Southern Netherlands and France. Ghent University
This project examines eighteenth-century attitudes towards sodomy in the cities of Antwerp, Bruges, Lille and Nantes. The scholarship on homosexuality in the past emphasizes that the eighteenth century marked a significant turning point in the evolving (self-)perception of homo-erotic desires in early modern Europe. Around 1700, a distinctly homosexual subculture developed and from then onwards, homo-erotic desires stemmed from an exclusive ...