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The research team consists of four professors and three researchers, belonging to different faculties, but all of them conceiving of themselves as historical researchers; their respective fields are: (1) cultural history, within the department of History, with Prof. Tom Verschaffel and Saartje Vanden Borre, (2) history of education, within the department of Educational Sciences, with Prof. Marc Depaepe and Walter Kusters, and (3) historical and comparative literary theory, within the department of Literature, with Prof. Lieven D’hulst, Prof. Dagmar Vandebosch and Elien Declercq and Emmy Poppe. Consequently this centre enables the strengthening en valorisation of already existing research foci within the diverse research units of the K.U.Leuven.
Prof. dr. Tom Verschaffel
Prof. Tom Verschaffel belongs to the research unit Cultural History since 1750 of the subfaculty of History of the K.U.Leuven. His research focus is historical and visual culture in the 18th and 19th century, cultural history and cultural nationalism, and the cultural exchange between Belgium and its neighbouring countries in the 19th century, including France.
Prof. dr. Marc Depaepe
Prof. Marc Depaepe is a membre of the Centre for the History of
Education of the K.U.Leuven and chair of the subfaculty of Psychology
and Educational Sciences. His expertise concerns the methodology and
theory of the historical approach within educational sciences and
pedagogical historiography. In addition his research focuses on the
cultural history of education, colonial history an the confrontation
between various educational cultures.
Prof. dr. Lieven D'hulst
Within the research unit Literary Relations and
Post/national Identities of the subfaculty of Literature, Prof. Lieven D’hulst
studies Belgian and French literature from the 19th century,
transfer procedures as in the translation and editing of literary texts, high
and low literary genres and the literary reflection of centre-periphery
relations in Francophone literature.
Prof. dr. Dagmar Vandebosch
Dagmar Vandebosch is a member of the research unit Literary Relations and Post/national Identities of the subfaculty of Literary Studies. Her research focuses on 20th-century Spanish literature, with a special interest in the essay, the discursive construction of cultural identities and the study of Hispanic literature in intercultural contexts (exile and migration).
Saartje Vanden Borre
Saartje Vanden Borre obtained her Master's degree in History in 2007. In addition she also obtained a teaching certificate in History. Within the research project Intercultural Identities. Belgian migration to Northern France (1850-1914), she is responsible for the study of historical and visual culture of the Belgian migrants in Northern France in the second part of the 19th century.
Walter Kusters
Walter Kusters graduated in Applied Psychology (Lessius Hogeschool), Educational Sciences and European Translation (K.U.Leuven). Within the CHIR he is mainly working on pedagogical historiography of the relation education-identity and the role of education and schooling in the formation of (inter)cultural identities, more particulary with regard to the Belgian migration in Northern France during the peroid 1850-1914.
Elien Declerq
Elien Declercq studied Romance languages and literature at the Campus Kortrijk (2003-2005) and the University of Salamanca (2005-2006), and graduated with a Master's thesis in Spanish literature at the K.U.Leuven (2006-2007). Within the CHIR she is studying the literary production of Belgian migrants in the North of France during the second half of the 19th century.
Emmy Poppe
After her studies in French and Spanish Literature and Linguistics (2004-2007), Emmy Poppe obtained the degrees Master of Western Literature (2008) and Post-Master of Iberian and Ibero-American Studies (2009), both with a Master’s thesis in Hispanic literature. Several stays abroad, at the University of Salamanca (2006) and the University Complutense of Madrid (2008), completed this education. Her research within the CHIR focuses on identity discourse in the essayistic literature of second-generation Spanish exiles in Mexico.
