Intermediality and Hybrid Writings in Hispanic Literary Studies
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Beschrijving van het project
The construction of identity (both individual and collective) as well as historical narratives are one of the main leitmotifs of Hispanic literature. However, they have evolved through the incorporation of different narrative techniques resulting in hybrid writings, genre mixing or generic blends. Our aim is the analysis of this merge (through combination, complementarity, juxtaposition, fusion...). For Self-writing, the focus is in both, essay and narrative (autofiction, autobiography) with particular interest in Latin American and US border writing.
For Historical narratives the focus is set in narrative and historical comics.
Diana Castilleja’s research focuses mainly on contemporary Hispanic Literature (Spain and Latin America). Currently, she co-directs the Research Group CROS: “Crossing the border between English and Spanish” (D. Castilleja, VUB – R. Enghels, UGent) and she is president of the Asociación de Hispanistas del Benelux (www.ahbx.eu). She is the author of L’essai: perspectives théoriques et l’exemple hispano-américain (L’Harmattan 2008). She has coedited several books as: Ensayo hispánico y sociedad: Diálogos de un género en movimiento (D. Castilleja, E. Houvenaghel, D. Vandebosch (eds.), Genève: Droz 2014), El ensayo hispánico: cruces de géneros, síntesis de formas. Genève: Droz/Romanica Gandensia XLIV. (D. Castilleja, E. Houvenaghel, D. Vandebosch (eds.), Genève: Droz 2012), among other articles.
Researchers interested in deepening the analysis of intermediality and hybrid writings in Hispanic Literary Studies in the context of a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship submission as well as in a general context are invited to get in contact.
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Brussels Platform for Digital Humanities
The Brussels Platform for Digital Humanities (DIGI) is an interdisciplinary research platform aiming to support digitally-enabled research across the Arts and Humanities at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. As such, DIGI engages in the field of 'Digital Humanities' at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, ranging from archaeology and philosophy to linguistics and history. It develops DH collaboration and supports research projects and infrastructure projects across the faculties.
DIGI brings together and offers guidance to researchers affiliated to the Centre for Linguistics (CLIN) and the Centre for Literary and Intermedial Crossings (CLIC), who use digital techniques for corpus linguistics; to the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science (CLWF), where digital tools are used for the study of intellectual history; and to the members of HOST (Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes), who use linked data, GIS, social network analysis, and text mining in the field of social and economic history.
These research groups have established productive ties with research groups outside of the humanities. At the AI-Lab, novel microservices are currently being developed to delve deeper into the content analysis of text corpora with regards to both ‘distant’ and ‘close’ reading, and new techniques are developed for the application of agent-based modeling in linguistics.