Current projects
Postdoc research
- In Looking Back, Becoming Modern: Shifting Discourses on ‘Latin Renaissance’ in the French and Italian Literary Fields, 1870-1915 (2023 – 2026)
- Blackface burlesques. Racialized subjection in popular performance culture of the Low Countries, 1770-1840 (2021 – 2024)
- Boundary stones in the body. Kidney, bladder and gall stones as markers of early modern concepts of the human body and its relations with the outside world, 1525-1675 (2016 – 2019)
PhD research
- Gardens of fear and fame. Ecophobia and biophilia in the Dutch ‘hofdicht’ (2023 – 2027)
- History as fairy-ground. Scottish and Irish female voices and the gothic imagination (2020 – 2024)
- Friend or infernal monster? Comic and tragic representations of the Turk and the Self in sixteenth-century Venetian theatre (2020 – 2023)
- Natural, social, and spiritual order in Enlightenment mesmerism: the Society of Universal Harmony (1783-1787) (2019 – 2023)
- Revealing secrets. Rhetoric and medicine in the Italian renaissance literature, ca. 1550-1600 (2018 – 2022)
- Radical revenge? Revenge tragedy and providential thinking in the Dutch Republic, 1638-1678 (2018 – 2022)
- Proteus and the mirror. Metaphors for sophistry from Leon Battista Alberti to Desiderius Erasmus (2017 – 2021)
- Singing communities. Politics of feeling in songs of the Dutch revolutionary period (1780-1815) (2017 – 2021)
- Food and the concept of truth. The rhetoric of food representations in the early modern Low Countries (2015 – 2022)
Research projects
Past projects
- Rinascimento ritrovato. The renaissance revival and the universal man in Gabriele d’Annunzio and his time, 1863-1938 (2018 – 2022)
- Repertoires of slavery. Representations of colonial slavery on the Dutch stage, 1770-1810 (2016 – 2020)
- Slavery on Scene: Locating Dutch Theatre in the Abolitionist Debate (1775-1825) (2016-2020)
- Amis sans frontières. Une exploration littéraire de l’hétérosocialité et de l’égalité au XVIIe siècle en France (2018-2019)
- ITEMP — Imagineering violence: Techniques of Early Modern Performativity in the Northern and Southern Netherlands 1630-1690 (2015-2019)
- From Dissecting Table to Courtroom. The Professionalization of Medico-Legal Expert Witness in the Early Modern County of Flanders (16th-18th Centuries) (2017-2021)
- STREAM. Spatiotemporal research infrastructure for early modern Flanders and Brabant (2015 – 2020) (2015-2020)
- Imagineering violence. Techniques of early modern performativity (2015 – 2019)