Lopende onderzoeksprojecten
- Matías Adam-Barrios
European scientific exploration narratives of the Orinoco Basin in translation. A decolonial interrogation of the reception of edited translations of foreign scientific expedition narratives in post-independence Venezuela.
Promotoren: Lieve Jooken, Jeroen Vandaele (UGent) - Anna Namestnikov
Translation and diaspora. The system of literary translations in Russian émigré journals (1919-1939)
Promotor: Piet Van Poucke (UGent) - Oliwia Napierala
Feminism and translational rebellion. A feminist gaze on literary translation flows between the Soviet Union, Polish People’s Republic and Western Europe
Promotor: Piet Van Poucke (UGent) - Elisa Robbe
ATLAM. Audiovisual transfer in Latin American migration
Promotor: Alexandra Sanchez, July de Wilde (UGent) - France Schils
The discrete translator. Strategies of paratextual (self-)representation in literary French/Dutch translations
Promotor: Francis Mus (UGent) - Dobrin Catteeuw
Competing narratives. A product and process-oriented analysis of news translation and news translators in Bulgarian media
Promotoren: Anneleen Spiessens, Piet Van Poucke (UGent) - Dina Batii
Gender norms in translation: an analysis of translations of Virginia Woolf’s essays in late Soviet and modern Russia
Promotor: Piet Van Poucke (UGent) - Axel Rekkers
Tussen het publieke en het verborgene: De peri- en paratekstuele voorstelling van Vlaamse/Belgische literatuur in de DDR.
Promotor: Arvi Sepp (VUB) - Hua Wang
The Translation and Reception of Contemporary Chinese Women’s Literature (1990-2018): a Paratext Perspective.
Promotor: Philippe Humblé (VUB) - Yunfeng Zhang
Multilingualism and Translation in Twentieth Century Hong Kong Literature.
Promotor: Arvi Sepp (VUB) - Jiang Jiao
Utopia and Classical Chinese Literature: The Possibilities of Cross-Cultural Research, met CSC scholarship.
Promotoren: Sabine Hillen/Guillermo Sanz Gallego (VUB) - Luomei Cui
Translation of Foregrounding Devices: Stylistic Analysis in Jia Pingwa’s Works.
Promotor: Guillermo Sanz Gallego (VUB) - Yu Wang
Affective Spaces and Divided Memories in Transitional European and Chinese Cities.
Promotor: Guillermo Sanz Gallego (VUB) - Wenfeng Zhou
Politics and Ideology of the Tang Dynasty in Ennin’s Diary.
Promotor: Guillermo Sanz Gallego (VUB) - Cuimin Zhu
Ideology, translation, and the paradigm shift of Chinese literature in the 1980s.
Promotor: Guillermo Sanz Gallego (VUB) - Padin Fazelian
Discursive Construction of Iranian National Image: Between Two Competing Narratives. Promotor: Guillermo Sanz Gallego (VUB)
Afgelopen onderzoeksprojecten
Wei Dandan (promotie 2026)
A Study on Kn Liu’s English Translation of The Three-body Problem from a Socio-cultural Perspective.
Promotor: Arvi Sepp
Jo De Brie (promotie 2026)
Crime in translation: Criminality and social class in English crime fiction translated as feuilletons in Flemish interwar newspapers.
Promotor: Bram Lambrecht (UGent), co-promotor: Lieve Jooken (UGent)
Dominic Bentley-Hussey (promotie 2026)
Forged identity. The role of hoaxes and pseudotranslations in European romanticism.
Promotor: Brecht de Groote (UGent)
Eline Denolf (promotie 2026)
Between accessibility and aesthetics. The translator agency at work in multilingual, postdramatic theatre in Brussels.
Promotoren: Christel Stalpaert en Désirée Schyns (VUB), Joint PhD met Macquarie University, Sidney, Australië
Gaëtan Regniers (promotie 2026)
‘To be continued…’ Dutch newspaper translations of Russian literature, 1840-1970.
Promotoren: Piet Van Poucke en Marianne Van Remoortel (UGent)
Qi Yuhan (promotie 2025)
The Rewriting and Narrative Reframing of Yan Fu’s Translation of Thomas Huxley’s Evolution and Ethics in Tian Yan Lun <天演论>.
Promotoren: Arvi Sepp en Philippe Humblé (VUB)
Mo Zhu (promotie 2025)
Self-Translation and Nostalgia. Case Study of Pai Hsien-Yung’s Taipei People and Ha Jin’s A Good Fall.
Promotoren: Janine Hauthal, Guillermo Sanz Gallego en Philippe Humblé (VUB)
Brenda Bressan Thomé (promotie 2025)
Tradução comentada dos diários de viagem ao redor do mundo de Madame Rose de Saulces de Freycinet a bordo do navio Uranie (1817-1820).
Promotor Arvi Sepp (VUB), Joint PhD met UFSC (promotor UFSC: Marie-Hélène Torres)
Sophie Decroupet (promotie 2025)
Translation and the museum. Exploring the impact of museum translation on memory construction and figures of the other.
Promotor: Anneleen Spiessens (UGent)
Miguel Ángel Guerra Blázquez (promotie 2024)
La traducción y recepción del “Nouveau Roman” en la España franquista. Censura y posición en el campo literario.
Promotor: Jeroen Vandaele (UGent)
Jingyi Zhan (promotie 2024)
The Translation of Gender in Chinese Children’s Literature
Promotor: Arvi Sepp (VUB)
Emmanuel Tasun Tidorchibe (promotie 2024)
Revisiting Formalism from a West African Perspective: Konkomba Folktales across Generations and Cultural Contexts
Promotoren: Birgit Neumann (HHU) & Eva Ulrike Pirker (VUB). Examiners: Stefanie Michels (Global History, HHU), Vera Elisabethh Gerling (Translation Studies, HHU), projectbeschrijving en data: https://blogs.phil.hhu.de/ctsdus/
Sarah Staes (promotie 2022)
Vidas en traducción. Las paradojas de la escritura autobiográfica multilingüe hispanoamericana 1980-2015 // Lives in Translation. The Paradoxes of Spanish-American Multilingual Autobiographical Writing 1980-2015
Promotoren: Ilse Logie (UGent) en An Van Hecke (KU Leuven)
Amaury de Sart (promotie 2022)
La poétique hétérolingue dans Larva. Babel de una noche de San Juan (1983) de Julián Ríos: des jeux de traductions aux enjeux traductifs // Heteroglossia en meertaligheid als poëtica. Larva. Babel de una noche de San Juan (1983) van Julián Ríos: van Spaanse woordspeling tot Franse vertaaluitdagingen
Promotor: Guy Rooryck (UGent)
Anja van de Pol-Tegge (promotie 2021)
Belgische literaturen in Duitse vertaling – Meertaligheid en cultuuroverdracht (1945 tot heden)
Joint PhD. Promotoren: Arvi Sepp (VUB), Vera Gerling (HHU Düsseldorf)
Elies Smeyers (promotie 2019)
Hugo Claus en français. Approche pluridisciplinaire des traductions et de leur impact sur l’image et la réception d’un transfert culturel à succès
Joint PhD UCL-UGent. Promotoren: Stéphanie Vanasten (Université catholique de Louvain) en Désirée Schyns (UGent)
Thomas Spittael (promotie 2015)
The Translation, Cultural Mediation, and Reception in Britain of J.-J. Rousseau’s Discours sur les Sciences et les Arts, 1751-1779: A Study of Translational Poetics, Ideological Adaptation, and Print Cultural Appropriation
Promotoren: Sandro Jung, Lieve Jooken en Guy Rooryck (UGent)
Lidia Rura (promotie 2014)
Het oeuvre van Aleksander Galič
Promotoren: Thomas Langerak, Piet Van Poucke (UGent)