Dr. Michel De Dobbeleer

 

Curriculum

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Languages and Cultures, section Slavic and East-European Studies, Ghent University, 2012‑
  • Teacher in East-European History and Culture, 'Travel Guide Training: Europe', Het Perspectief Gent, 2012-
  • Ph D in East-European Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, 2012
  • Teaching Assistent in Paleoslavistics, Department of Slavic and East-European Studies, Ghent University, 2009‑2012
  • Teacher in Bulgarian & Russian (adult education), Het Perspectief Gent & CVO Handelsschool Aalst, 2011‑2012
  • Board member of the Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies, 2009-2011
  • Research Scholarship Italy (Flemish Community; Università di Pisa), Pisa, 2008-2009
  • Qualified Teacher's Degree for Secondary Education (section 2), Ghent University, 2005
  • Teacher in Latin (secondary school), Koninklijk Atheneum Aalst, 2005
  • Research Scholarship Bulgaria (Flemish Community; University St Kliment Ohridski & Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), Sofia, 2004
  • MA in East-European Languages and Cultures (Russian, Bulgarian, Old Church Slavic), Ghent University, 2004
  • MA in Linguistics and Literature: Latin and Greek (option Italian), Ghent University, 2001

Teaching

  • Central European Literature and Culture (BA 3)
  • Old Church Slavic (BA 1 & 2)
  • Art and Culture of Byzantium and Slavia Orthodoxa (MA)

Research

  • Ph D project: The Epic of 1453? Nestor-Iskinder's Medieval-Russian Tale of Constantinople Through Comparative Literary Theory [in Dutch] (dissertation defended in 2012)
  • European epic (esp. literary/secondary epics) and premodern historiography
  • 'Siege narratives' (genre, plot, chronotopic and other studies of narratives about city sieges)
  • Narrativity and adaptation (theory), alternate history in popular (Slav) culture, esp. comics

Publications

Academic bibliography: https://biblio.ugent.be/person/801002032512

[In press / forthcoming / under review:

  • MDD & Anouk Dubois, Der Chronotopos des Kriegsrates als Baustein in Comics: Von narratologischem Geschehen nach Geschichte in Attilio Micheluzzis Sibérie. In: Otto Brunken (ed.), Erzählen in Comic: Beiträge zur Comicforschung. Bochum: Bachmann. in press
  • MDD, Hungry For a Plot: Degrees of Involvement in Narrations of the Leningrad Blockade (G. Kniazev, Iu. Riabinkin, and V. Vysotskii). Mosaïque. forthcoming
  • MDD, The Many Faces of Graphic History: From Nonfiction to Alternate History. In: Bart Beaty & Stephen Weiner (eds.), Graphic Novels. Ipswich, MA: EBSCO. forthcoming
  • MDD & Dieter De Bruyn (eds.), 'Classics on Tour: Graphic Narrative Adaptations of Slavic Literary Masterpieces' (cluster of articles). under review
  • Dieter De Bruyn & MDD, Graphic Grotesque? Comic Adaptations of Bohumil Hrabal and Bruno Schulz. under review]

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Mogelijke scriptieonderwerpen voor studenten (max. 2)

  • Russische / Bulgaarse narratieve literatuur tot ca. 1800, bv. Michail Cheraskovs korte ‘zeeslagepos' Česmesskij boj (1771): plot, personage, ideologie…
  • Narrativiteit in premoderne Oost-Europese historiografische teksten, evt. comparatistisch t.o.v. West-Europese teksten over dezelfde gebeurtenis(sen)
  • Narratologisch-ideologische doorlichting van een Slavisch 'belegeringsverhaal', ook 'modernere' casussen (blokkade van Leningrad, beleg van Stalingrad...) en afzonderlijke delen van een werk (bv. passages in Tolstojs Oorlog en vrede over  Napoleons belegering van Moskou)
  • Alternatieve geschiedenis (uchronie) / adaptatietheorie m.b.t. populaire cultuur, i.h.b. strips (over/uit Oost-Europa)
  • Fictionele (uchronische) werelden in bordspelen, games (over belegeringen, veldslagen) [onder voorbehoud]