Projects

This project seeks, for the first time, to give fundamental insight in how multilingualism, as a rhetorical tool, informed early modern women’s processes of authorial identity formation.

As an early modern woman, taking ownership over a text was far from self-evident. In fact, women writers had to carefully craft and renegotiate their authorial identities in their writing. Their life writing in particular was essential ...

This project aims to investigate contemporary authorship in comics, examining how the concept is understood and focusing on the way comics are created, shared, and read in a digital environment. Comics are an ideal case study because they lie at the intersection of narrative and visual culture, displaying practices, symbolic apparatuses and production structures similar to, or shared by, other media. In particular, I argue that comics after ...

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 ...