In the Faculty of Arts' departments a variety of research groups specialise in a specific aspect of the department's research. Often, the research groups work closely together - within the department and interdisciplinary across several departments.
History
| Power in History - Centre for Political History |
| The research group uses a broad interpretation of the concept of 'politics', implying all attempts at consciously ordering society, and the conflicts they can arouse. The field of the research unit encompasses the study of political institutions and international relations, as well as that of political theories, ideologies and cultures. |
Literature
| Institute for the Study of Literature in the Netherlands |
| ISLN conducts scientific research and provides academic education in the field of Literature in the Netherlands, from ca. 1100 to the present. The research focuses on Dutch and foreign literature from the Low Countries, with specific attention to the literature of the Southern Netherlands / Belgium and the literary interaction between Flanders and the Netherlands. ISLN brings together the study and documentation centres dedicated to Guido Gezelle, Louis Paul Boon en Hugo Claus. |
| Visual Poetics |
| Visual Poetics is a research group in theatre, film and related artistic media at the University of Antwerp, divided in 4 areas of research: performative poetics, intermedial poetics, artist's poetics, textual poetics. |
| Members, spokesperson Dirk Van Hulle |
Projects |
| Expertise in: computational text and language analysis - Latin-American, Caribbean and Jewish literature - postcolonialism - LGBTIQ literature - narrative analysis - manuscript study - hermeneutics |
Publications |
Linguistics
| Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics |
| CLiPS (Computational Linguistics & Psycholinguistics) produces internationally recognized top research and resources in (developmental) psycholinguistics, (corpus) linguistics, and computational linguistics. |
| Grammar and Pragmatics (GaP) |
| GaP unites research in grammar (in the broad sense), pragmatics and their correlation. The study of (linguistic) meaning is the research group's priority. |
Applied Linguistics
| TricS |
| TricS brings together researchers who work in the interdisciplinary fields of translation studies, interpreting studies and intercultural communication. The research group specialises in audiovisual translation and media accessibility, literature and/in translation, social and intercultural communication, and scientific–technical communication (expert/non-expert). |
Philosophy
| Centre for Philosophical Psychology |
| The Center of Philosophical Psychology focuses on the possibility and the limits of a naturalistic explanation of mental activities and properties. |
| Centre for Ethics |
| The Centre for Ethics organizes research and teaching in moral philosophy, bringing together researchers who specialize in meta-ethics and moral psychology, history of ethics, and applied ethics. |
| Center for European Philosophy |
| The Centre for European Philosophy's main research interest is a philosophical reflection on the relation between reason and culture in modern and contemporary society. The researchers focus on the criticism of metaphysics and post metaphysical thought, religion and secularization, and representation in art and literature. |