DOCTORATES

1. LITERATURE

Ongoing	Erring from Good Houswifery? Female Scientific Writers in Early Modern England Isabelle CLAIRHOUT Supervisor: M. Demoor (co-supervisor: I. Berensmeyer) Gendered Soul, Citationality and the Feminist Voice Floris COOMAN Supervisor: G. Buelens The Age of Authors: Reconsidering the Concept of Authorship as Cultural Performance (1660-1780) Alise JAMESON Supervisor: G. Buelens L'union fait la force? Multiple Authorship in Britain in the Long Nineteenth Century Olivia MALFAIT Supervisor: M. Demoor (co-supervisor: G. Buelens) Authorship in Dickens and Melville: The Nineteenth-Century Trans-Atlantic Literary Marketplace Jasper SCHELSTRAETE Supervisor: G. Buelens (co-supervisor: M. Demoor) Multidirectional Memory and the Retrofitting of Trauma in Pat Barker and W. G. Sebald Toby SMETHURST Supervisor: S. Craps Writing 9/12: The After-Existence of September 11 in Literature Sien UYTTERSCHOUT Supervisor: K. Versluys Hypertextuality and Paratextuality in James Thomson’s The Seasons Kwinten VAN DE WALLE Supervisor: S. Jung Muziek en plastische kunst in modernistische poëzie: Edith Sitwell, Mina Loy en anderen. Debora VAN DURME Supervisor: M. Demoor Self-Constructing Authorship: Thomas Hardy in the Twentieth-Century Literary Marketplace Vicky VANSTEENBRUGGE Supervisor: M. Demoor (co-supervisor: G. Buelens) Lords and Ladies of the Ring:An Analysis of Four Literary Networks in London and Paris (1900-1920). Birgit VAN PUYMBROECK Supervisor: M. Demoor (co-supervisor G. Buelens) The Green Ghost: An Ecocritical Study of Selected Texts by William Burroughs Chad WEIDNER Supervisor: K. Versluys
2011	Going Downtown: A Critical Aanlysis of the New York Downtown Literary Scene (1974-1984). Katrien BOLLEN Supervisor: K. Versluys (co-supervisor: B. Keunen) Towards the Total Work of Art: Supplements and Other Paratexts to Little Magazines of the 1890s Koenraad CLAES Supervisor: M. Demoor (co-supervisor: G. Lernout) Genesis and Function of the Supplements: A Genealogical and Genre-Theoretical Study of British Nineteenth-Century Periodicals Jolein DE RIDDER Supervisor: M. Demoor (co-supervisor: G. Lernout)
2010	In Pursuit of Masculinity: Constructions of Masculinity in the Work of Ernest Hemingway and David Herbert Lawrence. Ruben DE BAERDEMAEKER Supervisor: G. Buelens (co-supervisor: M. Demoor) Gertrude Stein in dialoog met Gilles Deleuze: Een analyse van modernistische poëzie. Sarah POSMAN Supervisor: M. Demoor (co-supervisor: B. Keunen) Performative Dimensions of Mimesis in Queer Identity. Johanna WAGNER Supervisor: G. Buelens (co-supervisor: M. Demoor)
2009	Walking the Border/Lost in the Borderlands: The Discursive Construction of Diasporic Identities in Contemporary Jewish-American Literature. Bart LIEVENS Supervisor: K. Versluys (co-supervisor: G. Buelens) Victorian Visions of Lady Jane Grey Martin SPIES Supervisor: M. Demoor (co-supervisor: I. Berensmeyer)
2008	Masters of Modern Life: Oscar Wilde's Creative Masculinities Eva THIENPONT Supervisor: G. Buelens (co-supervisor: M. Demoor)
2007	Anthropological Presuppositions of the Darwinian View of Women: A Historical-Critical Analysis of the Debate between Feminism(s) and Darwinism(s). Griet VANDERMASSEN Supervisor: M. Demoor (co-supervisor: J. Braeckman) award: Internatonal Club of Flanders Award, autumn 2008 Lives of the Sonnet: Genre, Gender and Criticism, 1787-1895 Marianne VAN REMOORTEL Supervisor: M. Demoor
2006	The City in Postmodern Fiction: Contemporary Urban Studies and the Case of the 'New Narratives'. Jeroen LIEVENS Supervisor: K. Versluys Het veld der verbeelding: Het aandeel en de receptie van niet-confessionele publicistes in Vlaamse, literaire en algemeen-culturele tijdschriften, 1870-1914. Liselotte VANDENBUSSCHE Supervisor: M. Demoor (co-supervisor: A.-M. Musschoot)
2005	Born into this Nightmare: The French Existential Repertoire in the Post-World War II Jewish American Novel. A Polysystemic and Text-Sociological Approach. Philippe CODDE Supervisor: K. Versluys Vrouweninvloed in het literaire veld: De medewerking van vrouwen aan katholieke tijdschriften, weekbladen en kranten. Geraldine REYMENANTS Supervisor: M. Demoor (co-supervisor: A.-M. Musschoot)
2004	Sites and Sights: A Critical History of Urban Photography 1968-2000. Steven JACOBS Supervisor: K. Versluys
2003	From Ashes Humour to Literary Ethics of Care: Resistant Strategies in HIV/AIDS Fiction and Memoirs. Katrien DE MOOR Supervisors: N. Rowan, G. Buelens Representation in Salman Rushdie's Novels of Memory: A Reading of Midnight's Children , The Moor's Last Sigh and The Ground Beneath Her Feet . Petra VAN DER JEUGHT Supervisor: J.-P. Vander Motten
2002	Beyond a "God's-Eye-View" in the Study of Gender and Religion. With a Case Study: Religious Practice and Identity among Strictly Orthodox Jewish Women. Chia LONGMAN Supervisor: H. Pinxten (co-supervisor: M. Demoor)
1998	An Impossible Possible Philosophers' Poetry: Wallace Stevens and the Limits of Reading and Writing. Bart EECKHOUT Supervisor: K. Versluys

2. LINGUISTICS

Ongoing	The clausal syntax of possessive nominals Liisa Buelens Supervisor: L. Haegeman (co-supervisor: T. Alexopoulos, Cambridge University) Possessors in the nominal and clausal domain Tijs D'hulster Supervisor: L. Haegeman (co-supervisor: T. Alexopoulos, Cambridge University) Multilingual literacy practices among the Iranian population living in Belgium Azadeh Elmianvari Supervisor: S. Slembrouck Adjunctival secondary predicates in English Stavros Kelepouris Supervisor: M. Taverniers Aspects of the diachronic syntax of the Germanic nominal domain Eric Lander Supervisor: L. Haegeman Multilingual landscapes in urban surroundings: case-studies of Brussels and Amsterdam Mieke Vandenbroucke Supervisor: S. Slembrouck Cleft constructions Romance and Germanic (non-standard) linguistic varieties. Aleksandra Vercauteren Supervisor: L. Haegeman Valorising multilingualism in Flanders: effects on classroom interaction and shifting language ideologie Evita Willaert Supervisor: S. Slembrouck
2013	A unified syntax of negation Karen De Clercq Supervisor: L. Haegeman (co-supervisor: Guido Van den Wyngaerd (HUBrussel) Spoken Academic English: a Genre Analysis Katrien Deroey Supervisor: M. Taverniers Being progressive is just a phase: celebrating the uniqueness of progressive aspect under a phase-based analysis William Harwood Supervisor: L. Haegeman The interpreter's role in medical consultations as perceived and as interactionally negotiated: a study of a Flemish hospital setting, using interview data and video recorded interactions Demitra Krystallidou Supervisor: S. Slembrouck (co-supervisor: H. Vermeiren) What about sign language?: a longitudinal study of the language development of young deaf children in Flanders in times of cochlear implantation Kimberley Mouvet Supervisor: M. Van Herreweghe (co-supervisors: G. Loots (VUB), M. Taverniers) How complement clauses distribute: complementiser how and the case against clause-type Rachel Nye Supervisor: L. Haegeman Splitting objects: a nanosyntactic account of direct object marking Amélie Rocquet Supervisor: L. Haegeman (co-supervisor: J. van Craenenbroeck, HUBrussel)
2012	A Linguistic Ethnography of Theatre Performance Sarah CLAEYS Supervisor: S. Slembrouck (co-supervisor: P. Flynn, Lessius) The Influence of the English Language and Media Culture on Jordanian Adolescents' Use of Compliments when Interacting in Arabic and English Majed DRBSEH Supervisor: S. Slembrouck (co-supervisor: C. Janssen) Talige bijstand in drie Gentse ziekenhuizen Dimitra KRYSTALLIDOU Supervisor: S. Slembrouck (co-supervisor: H. Vermeiren, HoGent) Imagined Spaces/Places of Multilingual Communication and the Locally-styled Englishes of Youngsters in the Late Modern Western Cape Quinten WILLIAMS Supervisor: C. Stroud, Western Cape (co-supervisor: S. Slembrouck)
2010	Discursive Constructions of Childhood and Well-being Shazly SAVAHL Supervisor: C. Malcolm, Western Cape (co-supervisor: S. Slembrouck) The Discourse Marker so in Learner English Lieven BUYSSE Supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen Modale partikels in origineel en vertaald Nederlands. Sofie NIEMEGEERS Supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen (co-supervisor: W. Vandeweghe)
2009	The Grammar and Prosody of Cognitive Verbs which Function as Pragmatic Expressions Julie VAN BOGAERT Supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen
2008	Want to: a Corpus-based Investigation into the Use of a Modal Expression of Volition in Contemporary British English Heidi VERPLAETSE Supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen
2007	A Diachronic Study of the Pragmatic Markers well and now. Fundamental Research into Semantic Development and Grammaticalisation by Means of a Corpus Study Tine DEFOUR Supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen
2006	The Imperative in English: A Corpus-Based, Pragmatic Analysis. Bernard DE CLERCK Supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen Lost (and Added) in Translation: Tracing the Boundaries between Hindi and Urdu. An analysis of a Corpus of Short Stories from the 20th century. Christine EVERAERT Supervisor: S. Slembrouck (co-supervisor: C. Oesterheld, Heidelberg) The Laryngeal Systems of Dutch, English and Dutch Learner English. A Study on the Acquisition of New Phonological Contrasts. Ellen SIMON Supervisor: M. Van Herreweghe (co-supervisors: J. De Caluwe, S. Slembrouck) A Linguistic Ethnography of Literary Translation: Irish Poems and Dutch-speaking Translators. Peter FLYNN Supervisor: S. Slembrouck
2005	Strategy and Ritual in Institutional Encounters. A Linguistic Ethnography of Weekly Meetings in the British Embassy in Brussels. Ellen VAN PRAET Supervisor: S. Slembrouck (co-supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen)
2004	The Asylum Speaker: An Ethnography of Language and Communication in the Belgian Asylum Procedure. Katrijn MARYNS Supervisor: J. Blommaert (co-supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen)
2003	Believe-type Matrix Verbs and their Complements: Corpus-based Investigations of their Functions in Discourse. Dirk NOEL Supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen
2002	Systemic-Functional Linguistics and the Notion of Metaphor. A Theoretical Study and a Proposal for a Semiotic-Functional Integrative Model. Miriam TAVERNIERS Supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen
2001	A Systemic-Functional Analysis of the Business Letter of Request. Werner BROUWERS Supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen
2000	Revoicing the Alien in Documentaries. Cultural Agency, Norms and the Translation of Audio-Visual Reality. Eliana FRANCO Supervisor: J. Lambert, KULeuven (co-supervisor: S. Slembrouck)
1999	A Corpus-based Contrastive Analysis of English "on"/"up", Dutch "op" and French "sur" within a Cognitive Framework. H. PAULUSSEN Supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen International Communication and Language Choice in Modern Europe. James O'DRISCOLL Supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen
1996	Prelinguaal dove jongeren en Nederlands: een syntactisch onderzoek. Mieke VAN HERREWEGHE Supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen Business English in Flanders: A Study of Lingua Franca Telephone Interaction. Patricia HAEGEMAN Supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen
1993	Predictors for Differential Language Outcomes Chris MEULEMAN Supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen
1990	Every "Why" Has a "Wherefore". A Generative-Pragmatic Study of the Expression and Interpretation of Causality in Modern Spoken British English, with Particular Reference to Conjuncts and Conjunctions. Sonia VANDEPITTE Supervisor: A-M. Vandenbergen