Projects
The Paradox of Interactive Fiction: A New Approach to Imaginative Participation in Light of Interactive Fiction Experiences University of Antwerp
The Paradox of Interactive Fiction: A New Approach to Imaginative Participation in Light of Interactive Fiction Experiences. University of Antwerp
Comic Modernism: The Reception of Aristophanes in British Poetry, Fiction, and Criticism, 1900-1940 KU Leuven
This research project aims to examine the presence and effect of ancient Greek comedy in British modernist literary culture. The dominant view of modernist literature as a profoundly serious endeavor has so far prevented a sustained study of the status of comedy in modernism’s literary legacy. By focusing on the reception of Aristophanic comedy, this project proposes an untrodden path into this field. It uncovers the keen interest modernist ...
Born in the Wrong Story: An Embodied Approach to Transgender Narratives in Dutch Fiction. University of Antwerp
Narrative interest and religious belief in contemporary American fiction. University of Antwerp
Narrative interest and religious belief in contemporary American fiction. University of Antwerp
Seriousness and Science Fiction (SF&A): How concerns with seriousness proliferate through, and impact on, the reading, writing and discussion of the genre Ghent University
Since its nascency in the American pulp magazines of the 1920s, science fiction (SF) has had a particular relationship with the concept of seriousness. Characterised as juvenile in both its content and readership, SF has had to argue for its place in both literary and academic consideration. Debates about the strategies that could elevate the genre into serious consideration, or doom it to sneers, have been common since its birth, in both ...