Related Research Master Programmes
- Arts, Media and Literary Studies (RuG)
- Comparative Literary Studies (UU)
- Critical Studies in Art and Culture (VU Amsterdam)
- Cultural Analysis (UvA)
- Cultural Leadership (RuG)
- Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology Research (UM)
- Gender Studies (UU)
- Geschiedenis (UvA)
- Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies (RU Nijmegen)
- Literary Studies (Leiden University)
- Literary Studies (UvA)
- Literature & Contested Spaces (VU Amsterdam)
- Media, Art and Performance Studies (UU)
- Research Master European Studies (UM)
- Sociology of Culture, Media and the Arts (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
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- Amsterdam Research Center for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS)
- Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
- Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH)
- Centre for Gender and Diversity, Maastricht (CGD)
- Centre for the Humanities
- Instituut voor Cultuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek Groningen (ICOG)
- Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS )
- NIAS-KNAW
- Onderzoekinstituut voor Geschiedenis en Cultuur (OGC)
- Radboud Institute of Culture and History (RICH)
Carol Pertuz | Exploration of the Infinite Wound and Its Interstices as the Core of the Migratory Experience in Literature with a Child’s Perspective
/in Current PhD research /by ChantalMy research, positioned at the intersection of childhood, literary, and migration studies, proposes a framework centred on two symbolic motifs—the infinite wound and the frontier—to analyse migration narratives through the lens of childhood. Through close reading and comparative analysis, I examine a curated corpus of nine literary works that foreground a child-centred perspective on migration.
Marije van Lankveld | Settler Colonialism by Minority Communities: Irish Women Writers at the North-American Frontier
/in Current PhD research /by ChantalThis project explores how Irish migrant women in North America positioned themselves in relation to settler colonial discourses through their writings. This will be examined through qualitative and quantitative analyses of a corpus of texts by Irish women settlers, which contain representations of the frontier, Indigenous peoples, and the natural environment and landscape.
Marina Grisko | Remembering Soviet Infrastructures in Eastern Europe: Visual Poetics and Politics.
/in Current PhD research /by ChantalThe Soviet Union left infrastructures that often become a matter of conflict and participate in maintaining a culture of memory wars in Eastern Europe. Cultural and political analysis usually discusses how this infrastructure is collapsing and how it should almost disappear in Eastern Europe.
Sarah Badwy | Learning to Read Ideologies for Citizenry
/in Current PhD research /by Alberto GodioliThe focus of my research is the skill of ideological critical reading. This involves students analyzing imaginations in literary texts, examining so called “representations.” The premise of ideological critical reading is that language is inherently political, meaning that all texts convey a particular perspective on the world around us.
Joy Koopman | Metamodern Reading in the EFL Classroom
/in Current PhD research /by ChantalJoy Koopman | Radboud University
Metamodern Reading in the EFL Classroom investigates how insights into the current zeitgeist can contribute to English as a Foreign Language (EFL) literature education and foster more engaged readers in the upper levels of secondary school in the Netherlands.
Marit van de Warenburg | Between Remembrance and Appropriation: Transcultural circulations of Poetry and Song
/in Current PhD research /by ChantalMarit van de Warenburg | Utrecht University
Cultural transmission is occurring all the time: cultural carriers circulate and are adapted to new circumstances and media and, in the form of translations, to other languages. Sometimes, however, cultural transmission is explicitly challenged. Particular reuses of pre-existing cultural carriers are then perceived as illegitimate. Think, for instance, of contemporary debates about cultural appropriation. In such debates, challenges to cultural transmission spark reflections on identity and on who can adopt what heritage. The project “Between Remembrance and Appropriation: Transcultural Circulations of Poetry and Song” analyzes such debates, reframing them in terms of the mobilization of memory.
Carla Stiekema | Cornélie Huygens (1848-1902): leven en werk van de rode freule
/in Current PhD research /by ChantalCarla Stiekema | VU Amsterdam
Cornélie Huygens is tegenwoordig een nagenoeg vergeten schrijfster. In haar eigen tijd (1848-1902) was deze vrouw van voorname afkomst juist een bekend figuur in Nederland, zowel vanwege haar literaire activiteiten als haar inzet voor het socialistische gedachtegoed dat eind 19de eeuw zijn opgang maakt.
Serra Hughes | Worlding Communication: Novel Communication Barriers in Global Science Fiction and Speculative Literature
/in Current PhD research /by ChantalSerra Hughes | University of Amsterdam
The novel communication barrier, an innovation beyond the norms of empirical reality that obstructs mutual understanding, is identified in this thesis as a distinct literary trope across a transnational range of science fiction and speculative literature. Locating this mechanism across a diverse corpus of texts from the Cold War period to the present and from the United States to Britain, Canada, Nigeria, Poland, Spain and China, this PhD project is the first to untether these novelties from their local contexts to develop urgently needed clarity on communication in a world of deepening divides.
Eeva Langeveld | Imperial Pasts in Contemporary Comics: Interrogating German and Dutch Colonialism through Word and Image
/in Current PhD research /by ChantalEeva Langeveld | Radboud University
This project investigates how contemporary comics challenge the dominant cultural archives of colonialism in the Netherlands and Germany.
Julia Neugarten | Anchoring and Innovating Classical Motifs in Fanfiction
/in Current PhD research /by ChantalJulia Neugarten | Radboud University
In my PhD-project, Anchoring and Innovating Classical Motifs in Fanfiction (2022-2026), I analyze how motifs from Classical Antiquity are transformed in fanfiction – stories written by and for fans, inspired by existing stories, and published online, for free.