Trust me, I’m an expert! What AirBNB and Academia have in common With the summer holidays approaching, you'll probably feel more like browsing AirBNB than like analysing academia. Well, what luck: in this post, you can do both! Fleur Praal • July 17, 2017
Medieval Women as Terrorists? What connects medieval women to current discussion on violence and religion? This post looks into the projection of political ideas on historical figures. Lieke Smits • July 06, 2017 • 2 comments
Forgetting Cicero Is it possible to control the way you are remembered by posterity? What the politician and writer Cicero can teach us about processes of commemoration and canonization (an introduction). Leanne Jansen • June 15, 2017
Who’s with me? Cultural Identity and the Alexandrian riots of 38 CE Disputes about cultural identity can be traced throughout history. In the first century C.E., Alexandria was one of the most diverse, multicultural cities of the Roman Empire. In 38 CE large-scale riots broke out between Greek and Jewish Alexandrians. Renske Janssen • April 27, 2017
Happy Birthday Blog To celebrate the blog's first birthday, this post looks back on some of the highlights so far. Sophia Hendrikx, Lieke Smits, Nynke Feenstra, Tessa de Zeeuw, Robbert Striekwold and Céline Zaepffel • April 06, 2017
The Rooster & the Pearl: A Little Aesopic Odyssey Fables are very old and flexible. This is substantiated by a juxtaposition of several versions of the fable of The Rooster and the Pearl, which may be called a “metafable”, since it is a fable about fables. Gert-Jan van Dijk • March 16, 2017
A Literary Shroud: Embroidering Derek Walcott’s Omeros A bird stitching an epic: intertextuality and metaliterature in Derek Walcott’s Caribbean epic Omeros. Amaranth Feuth • March 02, 2017
The many meanings of reading (2). Imagery. The term 'to read' is used for a myriad of activities. In this series, I will explore the different uses of the word in the context of book history. In this second instalment: text vs. images. Andrea Reyes Elizondo • February 23, 2017
Writer-Heroes and Women Readers Why do we want to know an author's identity? And what problematic consequences does the notion of the 'writer-hero' have for the literary canon? Lieke Smits • February 14, 2017 • 2 comments
