Several empirical findings suggest that reading fiction expands and shapes our senseof self. This paper contributes to this line of research by mapping which temporaldimensions of the self-concept (Markus & Nurius, 1987) ...

Reading literature is often related to cognitive patience (i.e., the ability to read with focused and sustained attention and delay gratification, while refraining from multitasking or skimming over parts of the text). In ...

This is the text of the valedictory lecture that Rosi Braidotti delivered in June 2022, to mark the retirement from her academic position at Utrecht University. It was conceived as a spoken text and written within the ...

The New Humanities are a signifcant critical and creative response to the Anthropocene, especially the Environmental, Medical, Public and Digital Humanities. This chapter examines the rise of these new felds of research ...

This open access book focuses on the textual features, or ‘strategies’, which form popularization discourse. In popularization discourse, research findings from academia are re-presented to make them noteworthy to society ...

The term ‘Anthropocene’ was proposed by the geological and natural sciences community to describe the current geological epoch and show the infuence of human activity on the planetary ecosystem and its dynamics. This idea ...

Docenten en onderwijsontwikkelaars in het hoger onderwijs incorporeren vaak multidisciplinair teamwerk in hun onderwijs om studenten voor te bereiden op het analyseren van complexe problemen in teamverband. De onderzoeksvraag ...