Print Culture and Periodical Studies
ID
MSCA-22-VanPuymbroek02
Supervisors
Project description
The Centre for Literary and Intermedial Studies welcomes experienced researchers with an interest in late nineteenth- and/or twentieth-century print culture and periodical studies. Previous and ongoing projects include the study of multilingual modernist periodicals, the representation of women and democracy in English, French and Swedish periodicals, First World War newspapers and periodicals, the serially published ‘little’ anthology, queer networks and the periodical press, and the representation of the seaside resort in the Victorian satirical press. Researchers with experience in digital humanities are particularly welcome to apply.
About the research Group
Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings
The Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings brings together researchers in the field of literary, theatre and performance studies. CLIC offers scholars an interdisciplinary network to stimulate research along three key concepts: Media, Genres and Spaces.
MEDIALiterature, theatre and performance traditionally belong to specific medial systems. However, these systems often interact in hybrid, intermedial ways. Definitions of intermediality range from a broad view on crossings between distinct media such as literature and theatre, to a more specific focus on the incorporation of one medium in another (e.g. the use of images or documentary material in literary texts). Methodological issues, too, challenge both practitioners and scholars.
GENRESThe generic classification systems of literature and media, based on stylistic and structural features, are never neutral or ahistorical categories. They produce and communicate meaning, and also change over time, in response to specific socio-cultural but also political and economic contexts. Authors and artists often consciously renew, transgress or mix genre conventions, and thus influence the reception of literature and theatre.
SPACESSpace has become an ever more influential and highly diversified theoretical category – ranging from the urban space of modernism to the contact zone of postcolonial theory and the rhizomatic network of the megalopolis. Through imaginary topographies and theatrical scenographies, transnational and multilingual identities are negotiated and disputed, as are new forms of politically committed artistic production.