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 foreign Shakespeare criticism in the long 19th century KU Leuven
Gendered Mimesis: Rethinking the Subject in Feminist Theory and Criticism KU Leuven
Between compassion and solidarity. Constellations of empathy in novels of social criticism (1848-1980) Ghent University
The project examines the construction of empathy in Flemish novels of social criticism (1848-1980). The corpus consists of novels which strategically evoke empathy for and within the working class to criticize perceived social injustice. A cognitive and narratological analysis of these constellations of empathy allows us to chart the developments and the coherence of this strong tradition of social criticism .
Historicizing Post-‐9/11 American Literature and Criticism through Biopolitics and a Genealogy of Statelessness Ghent University
This project will demonstrate how a genealogy of
statelessness can be used as a framework to examine previously unexplored links between pre-‐and post-‐9/11 American literature.
It will expose the enduring significance of the concept of ‘bare life’ in American culture by
comparing the wandering protagonist from the
9/11 canon with earlier historical and aesthetic
representations of ...
Creative undoing and textual scholarship: a rapprochement between genetic criticism and scholarly editing (CUTS). University of Antwerp
Beyond Baudelaire's indignation : an enquiry into the interplay between the art markets and the decline of the representation theory in art criticism. The case of Brussels, 1848-1914. University of Antwerp
Architecture as reality. Theory, history and criticism of architecture via the work of Geert Bekaert Ghent University
Since the fifties, Geert Bekaert has written consistently and continuously on architecture and the arts. With this research, I want to enlighten the (architectural) theory of Geert Bekaert, by reconstructing it within the international landscape of architecture theory and history. In BekaertU+2019s thinking, architecture is the first and most comprehensive human activity it precedes ideology, politics, aesthetics, economy and philosophy. ...