Facing up to the Dictatorial Past: Cultural Memory and the Responsibility for Fascism in post-1990 Italian literature

• 01.11.2022 – 31.10.2025
• Researcher: Guido Bartolini
• Funding agency: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)

Climate Impiety: Beyond Post-Apocalyptic Climate Change Fiction

• 01.10.2017 – 30.09.2021
• Researcher: Mahlu Mertens
• Funding agency: Ghent University Research Council (BOF)

Imagining Climate Change: Fiction, Memory, and the Anthropocene

• 01.10.2016 – 30.09.2020
• Director: Stef Craps
• Researcher: River Ramuglia
• Funding agency: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)

Expanding the Notion of Trauma Narration: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Post-Narrative Modes of Trauma Recovery in Transcultural Trauma Psychology and Theatre Studies

• 01.10.2015 – 30.09.2019
• Researcher: Sofie de Smet
• Funding agency: Ghent University Research Council (BOF)

Across Generations and Genres: The Legacy of the Holocaust in Dutch-Jewish Literature

• 01.10.2015 – 30.09.2019; terminated 30.09.2017
• Researcher: Lisa Vanlancker
• Funding agency: Ghent University Research Council (BOF)

Unfolding Amnesia: An Interdisciplinary Research into Artistic Practices and the Politics of Oblivion

• 01.09.2017 – 31.08.2019
• Researcher: Jelena Juresa
• Funding agency: Onderzoeksfonds Hogeschool Gent

Historicizing Post-9/11 American Literature and Criticism through Biopolitics and a Genealogy of Statelessness

• 01.01.2015 – 31.12.2018
• Researcher: Holly Brown
• Funding agency: Ghent University Research Council (BOF)

Language Prohibitions as Traumatic Experience in Scandinavian Literature and Film

• 01.11.2014 – 31.10.2018
• Director: Sophie Wennerscheid
• Researcher: Rozemarijn Vervoort
• Funding agency: Ghent University Research Council (BOF)

Postcolonial Mnemopoetics: Reading Transcultural Memory in the Poetry of Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, Bernardine Evaristo, Sherman Alexie, and Ingrid de Kok

• 01.09.2013 – 31.08.2018
• Researcher: Maria Zirra
• Funding agency: Stockholm University, Ghent University Research Council (BOF)

Truth-Telling: Violence, Memory and Human Rights in Latin America. A multidisciplinary Approach

• 01.10.2016 – 30.09.2017
• Researcher: Lucero de Vivanco
• Funding agency: CONICYT, Programa de Cooperación Internacional
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Conjuring Phantoms: A Comparative Study of Trauma in Comics

• 01.10.2014 – 30.09.2017
• Researcher: Maaheen Ahmed
• Funding agency: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)

Intersections of Cultural Memory and Human Rights: The Case of Dave Eggers

• 01.02.2012 – 30.09.2016
• Directors: Stef Craps, Pieter Vermeulen
• Researchers: Sean Bex, Katrien Bollen
• Funding agency: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)

Masks, Puppets and Performative Objects as Tools of Critique, Resistance and Agency in South Africa: Developing a Situational, Embodied, and Postdramatic Approach  for Dealing with the Cultural Trauma of Apartheid

• 01.10.2012 – 30.09.2015
• Directors: Christel Stalpaert, Berber Bevernage, Stef Craps, Annelies Verdoolaege, Marie Kruger, Jane Taylor
• Researchers: Sofie de Smet, Marieke Breyne
• Funding agency: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen) – National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF)

Playing with Trauma: Affect, Perpetration, and Therapy In Video Games

• 17.01.2011 – 16.01.2015
• Director: Stef Craps
• Researcher: Toby Smethurst
• Funding agency: Ghent University Research Council (BOF)

Conjuguer la Shoah au présent. Représentation et incarnation de la mémoire du génocide juif dans la littérature contemporaine

• 01.10.2012 – 30.09.2014
• Researcher: Evelyne Ledoux-Beaugrand
• Funding agency: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

Intersecting Memories: The Representation of the Holocaust and State Violence in (Post-)Yugoslav Literature

• 01.10.2011 – 30.09.2014
• Researcher: Stijn Vervaet
• Funding agency: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)

The Afterlife of Trauma, Melancholia, and Loss in the Contemporary Anglophone Novel

• 01.10.2010 – 30.09.2013 (ended on 31.12.2011)
• Researcher: Pieter Vermeulen
• Funding agency: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)

Writing “9/12”: The After-Existence of September 11 in Literature

• 01.01.2009 – 31.12.2012
• Researcher: Sien Uytterschout
• Funding agency: Ghent University Research Council (BOF)

Holocaust Remembrance in Transcultural Literature

• 01.10.2009 – 30.09.2012
• Researcher: Stef Craps
• Funding agency: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)

The Renovation of the Historical Novel after 1975

• 01.10.2008 – 30.09.2012
• Researcher: Steven Stroobants
• Funding agency: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)

Images of the Apocalypse in Contemporary Hispano-American Narrative Prose, with Special Attention for the Cono Sur Area

• 01.01.2007 – 31.12.2010
• Directors: Ilse Logie, Geneviève Fabry (UCL)
• Researcher: Annelies Oeyen
• Funding agency: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)

Postmemory and Postmodern: Traumatic History and the Poetics of Absence in Recent Jewish American Novels

• 01.10.2007 – 30.09.2010
• Researcher: Philippe Codde
• Funding agency: Ghent University Research Council (BOF)

Rethinking Cultural Memory in Theatre: Postdramatic Theatre and Performance as Technologies of Memory

• 01.10.2006 – 30.09.2010
• Researcher: Frederik Le Roy
• Funding agency: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)

Fictions de la Grande Guerre

• 01.01.2006 – 31.12.2009
• Director: Pierre Schoentjes
• Researcher: Griet Theeten
• Funding agency: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)

Trauma, Testimony, and Community in Postcolonial Literature in English (J. M. Coetzee, Caryl Phillips, Eavan Boland)

• 01.10.2006 – 30.09.2009
• Researcher: Stef Craps
• Funding agency: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)

Whither Trauma Theory? Debating the Future of Literary Research on the Memory of Catastrophe

• 01.02.2009 – 30.06.2009
• Researchers: Gert Buelens, Stef Craps, Ortwin de Graef (K.U.Leuven), Sam Durrant (Leeds), Robert Eaglestone (Royal Holloway), Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck), Michael Rothberg (Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
• Description: research cluster, i.e., a collaborative research project on the topic of new directions in trauma studies, with special emphasis of the extension of trauma theory in the direction of postcolonialism
• Funding agency: Flemish Academic Centre for Science and the Arts (VLAC)

Walking the Border / Lost in the Borderlands: The Discursive Construction of Diasporic Identities in Contemporary Jewish American Literature

• 01.01.2004 – 31.12.2007
• Directors: Kristiaan Versluys, Gert Buelens
• Researchers: Bart Lievens, Sien Uytterschout, Leen Maes
• Description: A study of recent Jewish-American literature in the light of new theories on hybridity and identity formation
• Funding agency: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO-Vlaanderen)