Özen Nergis Dolcerocca (PhD 2016) awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for 1.5 million Euros.
Özen Nergis Dolcerocca (PhD 2016) is awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant for 1.5 million Euros. Her project Modernizing Empires: Enlightenment, Nationalist Vanguards and Non-Western Literary Modernities (NONWESTLIT) is a comparative study of cultural reforms, linguistic renewal and literary renaissance movements in three imperial traditions, caught between the East-West divide: Russia, Turkey and Japan. It looks at the negotiated cultural models in modernization and westernization processes and argues that their shared historical experience resulted in a common intellectual vocabulary and narrative models shared by otherwise extremely diverse cultures. The project will start in September 2021 at the University of Bologna.