English Literature, Brussels Campus KU Leuven
The research topics of this unit include British Romanticism, Scottish literature, periodical studies, and translation and reception studies.
The research topics of this unit include British Romanticism, Scottish literature, periodical studies, and translation and reception studies.
In the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, socio-cultural anthropologists conduct empirically driven investigations on the following themes: (1) "the making of lifeworlds" in the city, in a digitizing world, through migrant projects, through tourism and heritage, through ethical choices, and through popular culture; (2) "the life of relationships": people are embedded in a plurality of relationships, to others, to animals, plants, ...
Research topics of this research unit are:
• German-language literature by female authors (18th-21st century)
• Weimarer Klassik
• literary theory and gender
• historiography of literature, literature as cultural heritage
• literature and politics
* literature and philosophy
• literature of minorities in Germany and Europe
* German theater (18-21th century)
* the heritage of Romanticism and ...
Research topics of this team are:
- The massive repatriation to North Korea by the Korean minority in Japan (Zainichi)
- The issue of Japanese wives residing in North Korea
- Japanese-North Korean relations and parliamentary diplomacy
- The attitude of Japanese and Zainichi intellectuals towards the Korean peninsula
- The concepts tenkō 転 向 ("ideological conversion") and parrhesia παρρησία ("truth")
Research covers the fields of philology, history and archaeology of different cultures of the Ancient Near East. Texts in the following languages and scripts are studied: Akkadian, Aramaic, Coptic, Demotic, Egyptian (hieroglyph and hieratic), Hebrew, Semitic epigraphy (Phoenician and others), Sumerian, Ugaritic. Special projects: Project Shenhur (Egypt); Semantics of Biblical Hebrew (ESF); The land of Sumer and Akkad (IUAP IV/25); The ...
The research group gathers junior and senior researchers with a wide variety of interests and expertise around the teaching and critical study of English literature across periods, genres, and geographical areas.Our research is mainly situated in the following four areas: 19th-Century Literature & Culture, Modernist Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, and Irish Literature. For more details, see ...