Michel De Dobbeleer

BIOGRAPHY

Michel De Dobbeleer (1978) is a Slavist, Italianist and classicist who has studied at Ghent University (1996-2004), BAS (Sofia, 2004) and Pisa University (2008). Among his main research interests are epic(s), older historiography, historical narration, ideology and narratives (incl. comics) on war situations.

Michel De DobbeleerCurrently, he works as a doctoral researcher in the Department of Slavonic and East-European Studies (Ghent University), where he is preparing a PhD dissertation in which he investigates, from a comparatist and narratological point of view, ‘premodern’ (until 1800) historiographic and epic ‘capture stories’ by making use of Aristotelian and Bakhtinian (plot) poetics. The siege/blockade/taking can be approached as a traumatic and/or apocalyptic event, especially in losers’ capture stories, i.e. narratives on city sieges that are told from the standpoint of the besieged. Furthermore, this kind of narratives, on the whole, allows for reflections of memory and ordeal.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • De Dobbeleer, Michel. “Approaching Unity in Epic /vs./ Historiography. Kheraskov’s Rossiad, the Kazanskaya istoriya and the Aristotelian Plot.” Slavica Gandensia 35 (2008): 23-35.
  • De Dobbeleer, Michel. “The Fall of Kazan, or the Return to Balance. Comparing Recurrence Plots in Russian Historiography and Epic.” In: Gašper Troha, Vanesa Matajc & Gregor Pompe (eds.), History and its Literary Genres:74-83, 150-151. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
  • De Dobbeleer, Michel. “From Older Testimony to World Literature? A Greek, Ottoman and Russian Report of the Fall of Constantinople (1453).” In: Karen-Margrethe Simonsen & Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (eds.), World Literature. World Culture. History, Theory, Analysis: 87-99. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2008.
  • De Dobbeleer, Michel. “Ideology within Three Russian Capture Stories. A Matter of Plot and Focalization.” Studia Slavica 7 (2007): 21-30.

CONTACT

Department of Slavonic and East-European Studies
Ghent University
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B-9000 Ghent
Belgium
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Web: http://www.slavistiek.ugent.be/personeel/dedobbeleer