Romancing Rhetoric. The Reception of the Ancient Greek Novel in the Late Antique Rhetorical Schools of the Eastern Mediterranean

Novel Echoes. Ancient Novelistic Receptions and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique and MEdieval Secular Narrative from East to West

Novel Saints. Ancient novelistic heroism in the hagiography of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages

Courting the Past: (Re)constructing Courtesans in the Second Sophistic (50-250 CE)

Doctoral project Annunziata Di Rienzo

Doctoral project Julie Van Pelt

Doctoral project Kirsten Ricquier

Doctoral project Klazina Staat

Narrative Patterns in the Lives of Ancient Greek Poets

Novel teachers, lovers, and readers.<i> Praeceptores amoris </i>in Achilles Tatius and Longus amidst Latin and Greek literary traditions

The Holy Romance. Characterization and concepts of fiction in Italo-Greek hagiography

The Pseudo-Clementine Homilies as Philosophical Fiction: A Re-evaluation of the Late Antique Christian Novel

Ancient Narrative and its Reception

Courting the Past: (Re)constructing Courtesans in the Second Sophistic (50-250 CE)

ERC Professorship: Novel Saints

Holiness and Power in Syriac Hagiographic Collections

Latin to Greek. The Latinity of the Ancient Greek Love Novel

Miracle or Magic? The Figure of the 'Magos' in Byzantine Hagiography

Nothing but the Truth? Rhetoric and fictionality in the Greek and Latin novels.

Pirenne Consortium for Medieval Studies

Saints in Disguise: Literary Performance in Greek Late Antique Saints’ Lives.

The Holy Romance. Characterization and concepts of fiction in Italo-Greek hagiography

The Rhetoric of Democracy. Elites and Popular Power in Second Sophistic Literature

The Romance between Greece and the West. Heroes and Heroines in French, Anglo-Norman and English medieval narrative.

The Romance between Greece and the West. Heroes and Heroines in French, Anglo-Norman and English medieval narrative."

: Sacred Fiction. A narratological-rhetorical analysis of novelistic topicality and generic specificity in late antique hagiography.

ERC Professorship: Novel Saints

The fictional life. A narratological-rhetorical approach to characterization and fictionality in the Greek biographers in the imperial period