Projects
Contra Isaac Newton. British (natural) philosophical and poetic criticism of Newton’s natural philosophy and natural philosophical methods, 1672-c.1750 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Tenure track professorship in theory, history and criticism of early modern architecture Ghent University
A tenure track appointment grants one the privilege of focusing primarily on research for a period of 5 years, with a limited teaching load.
Bringing the Bard Back Home? The English Translation of German Shakespeare Criticism in the Long 19th Century. KU Leuven
Unlike translations of Shakespeare’s texts, translations of Shakespeare criticism have attracted no scholarly attention. Shakespeare critics in different countries often used to read each other in the original, but their writings also reached wider foreign audiences through translations. By analysing English translations of French and German writings on Shakespeare in the long 19th century (an age of popular Bardolatry or ...
Bringing the Bard back home? The English translation of foreign Shakespeare criticism in the long 19th century KU Leuven
Gendered Mimesis: Rethinking the Subject in Feminist Theory and Criticism KU Leuven
The 'Anti-religious' Testimony of the Bible: Criticism of Religion as a Theological Ally KU Leuven
The Dutch theologian K.H. Miskotte (1894-1976) has brought to the fore that the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) contains a profound criticism of religion. Inspired by Barth, he has even called Tanakh as a whole an ‘anti-religious testimony’ and has developed his entire biblical-theological work from this angle. According to Miskotte, criticism of religion is at the core of the Hebrew Bible, as it proclaims the exodus from religious slavery. This ...
With theatre he urged people to remember their duties. Social Criticism in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre of the Low Countries. University of Antwerp
Homo Mimeticus: Theory and Criticism KU Leuven
Mimesis is one of the most influential concepts in Western thought. Originally invoked to define humans as the “most imitative” creatures in classical antiquity, mimesis (imitation) has recently been at the centre of theoretical debates in the humanities, social sciences, and the neurosciences concerning the role of “mimicry,” “identification,” “contagion,” and “mirror neurons” in the formation of subjectivity. And yet, despite the growing ...
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 ...