Ongoing research projects
- 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.
Supervisors: Lieve Jooken, Jeroen Vandaele (UGent) - Anna Namestnikov
Translation and diaspora. The system of literary translations in Russian émigré journals (1919-1939)
Supervisor: 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
Supervisor: Piet Van Poucke (UGent) - Elisa Robbe
ATLAM. Audiovisual transfer in Latin American migration
Supervisors: Alexandra Sanchez, July de Wilde (UGent) - France Schils
The discrete translator. Strategies of paratextual (self-)representation in literary French/Dutch translations
Supervisor: Francis Mus (UGent) - Dobrin Catteeuw
Competing narratives. A product and process-oriented analysis of news translation and news translators in Bulgarian media
Supervisors: 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
Supervisor: Piet Van Poucke (UGent) - Axel Rekkers
Tussen het publieke en het verborgene: De peri- en paratekstuele voorstelling van Vlaamse/Belgische literatuur in de DDR.
Supervisor: Arvi Sepp (VUB) - Hua Wang
The Translation and Reception of Contemporary Chinese Women’s Literature (1990-2018): a Paratext Perspective.
Supervisor: Philippe Humblé (VUB) - Yunfeng Zhang
Multilingualism and Translation in Twentieth Century Hong Kong Literature.
Supervisor: Arvi Sepp (VUB) - Jiang Jiao
Utopia and Classical Chinese Literature: The Possibilities of Cross-Cultural Research, met CSC scholarship.
Supervisor: Sabine Hillen/Guillermo Sanz Gallego (VUB) - Luomei Cui
Translation of Foregrounding Devices: Stylistic Analysis in Jia Pingwa’s Works.
Supervisor: Guillermo Sanz Gallego (VUB) - Yu Wang
Affective Spaces and Divided Memories in Transitional European and Chinese Cities.
Supervisor: Guillermo Sanz Gallego (VUB) - Wenfeng Zhou
Politics and Ideology of the Tang Dynasty in Ennin’s Diary.
Supervisor: 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. Supervisor: Guillermo Sanz Gallego (VUB)
Completed research projects
Wei Dandan (2026)
A Study on Kn Liu’s English Translation of The Three-body Problem from a Socio-cultural Perspective.
Supervisor: Arvi Sepp
Jo De Brie (2026)
Crime in translation: Criminality and social class in English crime fiction translated as feuilletons in Flemish interwar newspapers.
Supervisor: Bram Lambrecht (UGent), co-supervisor: Lieve Jooken (UGent)
Dominic Bentley-Hussey (2026)
Forged identity. The role of hoaxes and pseudotranslations in European romanticism.
Supervisor: Brecht de Groote (UGent)
Eline Denolf (2026)
Between accessibility and aesthetics. The translator agency at work in multilingual, postdramatic theatre in Brussels.
Supervisors: Christel Stalpaert, Désirée Schyns (UGent), Joint PhD with Macquarie University, Sidney, Australia
Gaëtan Regniers (2026)
‘To be continued…’ Dutch newspaper translations of Russian literature, 1840-1970.
Supervisors: Piet Van Poucke, Marianne Van Remoortel (UGent)
Qi Yuhan (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>.
Supervisors: Arvi Sepp, Philippe Humblé (VUB)
Mo Zhu (2025)
Self-Translation and Nostalgia. Case Study of Pai Hsien-Yung’s Taipei People and Ha Jin’s A Good Fall.
Supervisors: Janine Hauthal, Guillermo Sanz Gallego, Philippe Humblé (VUB)
Brenda Bressan Thomé (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).
Supervisor: Arvi Sepp (VUB), Joint PhD with UFSC (supervisor UFSC: Marie-Hélène Torres)
Sophie Decroupet (2025)
Translation and the museum. Exploring the impact of museum translation on memory construction and figures of the other.
Supervisor: Anneleen Spiessens (UGent)
Miguel Ángel Guerra Blázquez (2024)
La traducción y recepción del “Nouveau Roman” en la España franquista. Censura y posición en el campo literario.
Supervisor: Jeroen Vandaele (UGent)
Jingyi Zhan (2024)
The Translation of Gender in Chinese Children’s Literature
Supervisor: Arvi Sepp (VUB)
Emmanuel Tasun Tidorchibe (2024)
Revisiting Formalism from a West African Perspective: Konkomba Folktales across Generations and Cultural Contexts
Supervisors: Birgit Neumann (HHU) & Eva Ulrike Pirker (VUB). Examiners: Stefanie Michels (Global History, HHU), Vera Elisabethh Gerling (Translation Studies, HHU), project description and data: https://blogs.phil.hhu.de/ctsdus/
Sarah Staes (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
Supervisors: Ilse Logie (UGent), An Van Hecke (KU Leuven)
Amaury de Sart (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
Supervisor: Guy Rooryck (UGent)
Anja van de Pol-Tegge (2021)
Belgische literaturen in Duitse vertaling – Meertaligheid en cultuuroverdracht (1945 tot heden)
Joint PhD. Supervisors: Arvi Sepp (VUB), Vera Gerling (HHU Düsseldorf)
Elies Smeyers (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. Supervisors: Stéphanie Vanasten (Université catholique de Louvain), Désirée Schyns (UGent)
Thomas Spittael (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
Supervisors: Sandro Jung, Lieve Jooken, Guy Rooryck (UGent)
Lidia Rura (2014)
Het oeuvre van Aleksander Galič
Supervisors: Thomas Langerak, Piet Van Poucke (UGent)