Promotor or Co-Promotor of the Following Doctorates and Research Projects:

Dwelling Today: Hospitality, Refuge and Collaboration in Contemporary Continental Debates on Dwelling
Thomas Froy
01/11/2021 - 31/10/2023
A Continuum of Loss: Productive Melancholia and Irresolvable Loss in Twentieth-Century Elegy
Adam Sax
01/01/2021 - 01/07/2022
Literatures without Borders. A Historical-Comparative Study of Premodern Literary Transnationality
FWO Scientific Research Network
01/01/2021- 31/12/2025
21st-Century Literature and the Holocaust. A Comparative and Multilingual Perspective
Research Consortium Project
01/09/2020 - 30/09/2023
Narrative Estrangement? From Kafka and Blanchot towards a Critical Theory of Culture
Sebastian Müngersdorff
1/1/2017-
German-Jewish Urban Experience in the Third Reich: Heterotopia in Breslau Life Writing
Annelies Augustyns
1/10/2016-
Narrative Estrangement in the Modernist Novel: A Challenge for the Contemporary Philosophy of Literature?
Leen Verheyen
2015 -
Arba'ah Ve-Esrim: Paratekst en Context in de Rabbijnenbijbels (1517-1525)
Hans van Nes
01/09/2015 -

Franz Rosenzweig and the Problem of Political Theology in Jewish Dialogical Philosophy

Dennis Baert

01/10/2012 -

Die Faschisierung des Heimatromans. Der Fall Hermann Burte.
Joris Van Staeyen
01/09/2011 - 2013 (stopped)

Namensverbot between T.W. Adorno and W. Benjamin

Virginia Tassenari

01/01/2011 -

Transcendence Estranged: Sartre, Kafka and French Existentialism

Jo Bogaerts

01/01/2011 - 31/12/2013
Doctoral defense: 22 April 2015

As German as Kafka. Comparative Analysis of National identity in German-Jewish Literature and German Literature of Migration

Lene Rock

01/09/2011 -

Redesigning Life: Eugenics, Biopolitics, and Originary Technicity

Nathan Van Camp

01/07/2007 - 24/05/2013
Doctoral defense: 24 May 2013

To Play or Not to Play: The Role and Function of Wordplay in Genesis 1-11

Karolien Vermeulen

01/02/2007 - 2013
Doctoral defense: 9 December 2013

Text and Music in Transformation and Interaction. A Study of the Relationship between Modern German Poetry and Arnold Schoenberg's Free-Atonal Composition Technique

Stephan Weytjens

01/01/2007 - 31/12/2008

Walter Benjamin's Theory of Eingedenken

Beatrice Hanssen

01/01/2007 - 31/03/2007

„Mit dem Buch ins Volk“. Das Buch in der nationalsozialistischen Propagandapolitik

Ine Van linthout

01/05/2006 - 10/07/2008
Doctoral defense: 10 July 2008

Topographie des Alltags. Eine kulturwissenschaftliche Lektüre von Victor Klemperers Tagebüchern 1933-1945

Arvi Sepp

01/10/2005 -
30/09/2008
Doctoral defense: 15 September 2008

The Representation of the Holocaust in Contemporary Children's and Youth Literature and the Perspective of the Child in Literary Texts about the Holocaust

Katrien Vloeberghs

01/06/2005 -

Feeling Through the Eyes. The Legacy of Sentimentalism in Silent Hollywood - The Films of Mary Pickford and Frances Marion

Anke Brouwers

2007 - 2010
Doctoral defense: 20 July 2011

Jewish Identity in GDR Literature

Parcifal Seeldrayers

01/09/2004 - 31/08/2005

Asyllose Welt: Exil und Flucht am Beispiel von Lion Feuchtwangers Exil, Anna Seghers’ Transit und Albert Drachs Unsentimentale Reise

Liesbeth Haagdorens

01/03/2002 - 31/02/2006
Doctoral defense: 19 September 2008

Flanders in Nazi-Germany (1933-1945). Investigating the Building of an Image

Ine Van linthout

01/06/2001 - 30/04/2006

The Child without Face. Figurations of Childhood in Literary Modernism, in the theories of Lyotard, Kristeva and Agamben, and in Contemporary Literature for the Young

Katrien Vloeberghs

01/10/2000 - 31/05/2005
Doctoral defense: 4 May 2005

Opening Up the Nursery: Dislocation of the Child Motif in Today's Western Children's Literature

Katrien Vloeberghs

01/02/1999 - 30/09/2000

Modernism in the Context of the ICLA-Series on the Major Periods in Literary History

Vivian Liska

01/10/1999 - 30/09/2001

 

Member of the following Doctoral Commissions:

Hans Oostrik
University of Antwerp
2022
Hans van Nes
University of Antwerp
2022
Sebastian Müngersdorff
University of Antwerp
2020
Annelies Augustyns
University of Antwerp
2020
Anneleen Van Hertbruggen
University of Antwerp
2019
Esther Tuypens
University of Antwerp
2019
Lisa Vanlancker
Ghent University
2016
Sevda Salayeva
Ghent University
2016

Sami Sjöberg

University of Helsinki

2012

Johana Wagner

English Literature - Ghent University

2010

Birgit Van Puymbroeck

English Literature - Ghent University

2010

Ruben De Baerdemaeker

English Literature - Ghent University

2010

Kerstin Schreck

Philosophy - Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf 

2009

Bart Lievens

English Literature - Ghent University

2008

Bram Ieven

Literary Studies - Leiden University

2007

Pieter Vermeulen

English Literature - K.U.Leuven

2007

Gerald Sommerer

German Literature - Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

2006

Jan Ceuppens

German Literature - K.U.Leuven

2005

Aagje Swinnen

Dutch Literature - Ghent University

2004

Gunther Martens

German Literature - Ghent University

2003

Kenneth Crab

Comparative Literature - University of Antwerp

2002

Kurt Vanhoutte

Theater Studies - University of Antwerp

2001

Inge Landuyt

Comparative Literature - University of Antwerp

1999

Marko Pajevic

German Literature - University of Paris VIII

1999

Dirk Van Hulle

Comparative Literature - University of Antwerp

1999