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The Literature Project Text, Culture and Identity Keywords: Literary Culture – Media – Constructions of Identity and Heritage – History of the Present – Topicality of the Past – Ideology – Effect/Affect – Cultural Theory Description of research program Culture is ordinary and everywhere, yet at the same time it is highly complex, difficult to grasp, and endlessly variable. In this program, therefore, modern and contemporary culture are studied as a complex, dynamic network of signifying practices, in interaction with the discourses and ideologies that structure society at large. In our research, we explore the role of literary and other forms of production in the construction of this network, with a specific focus on discourses of identity, modernity, memory, scholarship and technology. In order to achieve this, we propose a definition of literary heritage that includes the various forms of cultural convention in different media and the tropes and narratives we live by, as well as explicit constructions of the past from a present day perspective. We argue that the dynamics of literary and cultural heritage can only be addressed when these two perspectives are studied interdependently. This twofold vision implies that we analyze literature, media and other forms of textual production as practices that constantly write and rewrite modern and contemporary culture, thereby reiterating as well as contesting dominant values and hierarchies. Hence, our approach has a societal dimension by definition and is always close up the heels of current political, ethical and cultural issues, such as debates about national, European and cosmopolitan forms of identity, conceptions of globalization, multiculturalism and pluralism, or discussions of the cultural impact of science and technology. Departing from the assumption that everyday realities are crucially shaped by the tropes and stories that people live by, we study the cultural representations that

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 The  Literature  Project  Text,  Culture  and  Identity      Keywords:  

Literary  Culture  –  Media  –  Constructions  of  Identity  and  Heritage  –  History  of  the  Present  –  Topicality  of  the  Past  –  Ideology  –  Effect/Affect  –  Cultural  Theory    

   Description  of  research  program  Culture  is  ordinary  and  everywhere,  yet  at  the  same  time  it  is  highly  complex,  difficult  to  grasp,  and  endlessly  variable.  In  this  program,  therefore,  modern  and  contemporary  culture  are  studied  as  a  complex,  dynamic  network  of  signifying  practices,  in  interaction  with  the  discourses  and  ideologies  that  structure  society  at  large.  In  our  research,  we  explore  the  role  of  literary  and  other  forms  of  production  in  the  construction  of  this  network,  with  a  specific  focus  on  discourses  of  identity,  modernity,  memory,  scholarship  and  technology.  In  order  to  achieve  this,  we  propose  a  definition  of  literary  heritage  that  includes  the  various  forms  of  cultural  convention  in  different  media  and  the  tropes  and  narratives  we  live  by,  as  well  as  explicit  constructions  of  the  past  from  a  present  day  perspective.  We  argue  that  the  dynamics  of  literary  and  cultural  heritage  can  only  be  addressed  when  these  two  perspectives  are  studied  interdependently.     This  twofold  vision  implies  that  we  analyze  literature,  media  and  other  forms  of  textual  production  as  practices  that  constantly  write  and  rewrite  modern  and  contemporary  culture,  thereby  reiterating  as  well  as  contesting  dominant  values  and  hierarchies.  Hence,  our  approach  has  a  societal  dimension  by  definition  and  is  always  close  up  the  heels  of  current  political,  ethical  and  cultural  issues,  such  as  debates  about  national,  European  and  cosmopolitan  forms  of  identity,  conceptions  of  globalization,  multiculturalism  and  pluralism,  or  discussions  of  the  cultural  impact  of  science  and  technology.  Departing  from  the  assumption  that  everyday  realities  are  crucially  shaped  by  the  tropes  and  stories  that  people  live  by,  we  study  the  cultural  representations  that  

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contribute  to  and  interact  with  these  debates.  These  signifying  practices,  we  find,  do  not  simply  consist  of  reflections  on  transformations  in  society,  but  actively  contribute  to  them  as  well,  precisely  because  they  are  not  limited  to  any  specific  social  field,  discourse  or  discipline.  

A  second  important  implication  of  our  vision  is  that  we  focus  on  the  specific  ability  of  literary  texts  and  other  cultural  artifacts  to  establish  links  between  the  past,  the  present  and  the  future.  Contemporary  cultural  production  brings  the  past  of  a  society  and  its  heritage  up  to  date,  while  it  at  the  same  time  reworks  and  remediates  this  heritage  in  the  light  of  present-­‐day  developments  and  concerns  such  as  globalization  and  cultural  diversification.  Here,  one  can  think  of  practices  of  cultural  memory,  the  construction  of  national  identity  and  the  formation  of  heritage,  or  ethically  charged  interventions  in  the  public  and/or  scholarly  debate  on  both  historical  legacies  as  contemporary  issues.  Cultural  artifacts,  in  short,  historicize  the  present,  and  contemporize  the  past.  Moreover,  they  project  versions  of  the  present  into  the  future;  they  anticipate  upon  and  invest  in  developments  yet  to  happen  or  never  to  occur  at  all.  Thus,  (re)writing  culture  also  implies  (re)writing  the  future.  

Methodologically,  the  members  of  the  research  group  combine  the  approaches  of  cultural  history,  literary  theory  and  cultural  studies.  Important  basic  principles  include,  but  are  not  limited  to:  intra-­‐  and  intertextual  analysis  of  literary  culture,  discourse  analysis  of  texts  and  media,  and  various  forms  of  cultural  and  ideological  critique.  In  the  broadest  sense,  the  initiated  research  focuses  on  the  interdiscursive  relations  between  literary  and  cultural  phenomena  on  the  one  hand,  and  politics,  ethics,  economics,  sciences,  visual  culture,  scholarship,  popular  culture,  journalism  –  et  cetera  –  on  the  other.  Thereby,  the  diverse,  yet  converging  activities  of  the  group  aim  at  a  reassessment  of  modern  and  contemporary  culture  as  a  common  and  interdisciplinary  core  concern  in  the  humanities.    Envisaged  results  The  research  group’s  principal  aim  is  to  join  forces  and  to  develop  a  distinct  profile  for  the  study  of  modern  and  contemporary  literary  culture  and  heritage  at  our  university.  The  coherency  of  the  group  is  safeguarded  in  monthly  meeting  in  which  the  group’s  (strategic)  activities  are  discussed,  such  as:  joint  research  proposals  (NWO,  ERC),  co-­‐publications,  panel  proposals,  research  seminars,  Winter/Summer  Schools  for  PhD-­‐students  (Onderzoekschool  Literatuurwetenschap  OSL),  collaborations  with  international  partners…                      The  research  output  of  the  group  members  will  be  actively  monitored  and  managed  with  an  eye  to  the  coherence  and  integration  of  the  program.                      Specifically,  we  are  aiming  at  an  a  large,  international  conference  end  2014,  provisionally  entitled:  ‘(Re)writing  the  Present’.  We  will  invite  several  internationally  acclaimed  key  note  speakers;  a  selection  of  the  presented  key  notes  and  papers  will  be  published  in  a  book  volume  or  as  a  special  issue  of  an  international,  peer  reviewed  

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journal.  Additionally,  public  lectures  and  debates  will  be  organized  in  collaboration  with  Spui25,  Studium  Generale,  Perdu,  de  Balie,  and  other  institutions.    Research  interests  The  research  group’s  shared  concerns  are  related  to  urgent  questions  in  both  current  scholarship  as  in  today’s  public  debate  in/on  culture:    

• Literary  culture  and  cultural  production  as  privileged  domain  for  the  formation  and  reconfiguration  of  national  (collective)  identities;  culture’s  role  in  relation  to  nationalisms  since  the  19th  century  on  the  one  hand  and  the  critique  of  limited  notions  of  identity  (cf.  the  ‘rise’  of  world  literature,  post-­‐colonial  literature  etc.)  and  of  collective  identities  on  the  other  hand;  contextualizing  intellectual  debates  and  the  role  of  public  intellectuals;  

• The  topicality  of  the  past  and  the  extended  history  of  the  present:  culture  as  a  set  of  practices  that  construct  and  undo  images  of  the  past  and  notions  of  heritage;  retaking  and  remodeling  heritage  to  explore  future  vistas.  

• New  perspectives  for  comparative  literary  and  cultural  analysis:  rethinking  literature,  culture  and  the  humanities:  not  as  universalizing  projects,  but  as  forms  of  dynamic,  localized  cosmopolitanism;    

• Analysis  of  the  discourses  of  cultural  heritage  and  “digital  humanities”:  Fears  of  forgetting  and  fantasies  of  completeness  and  contemporary  culture  and  academia;  exploration  of  contemporary  ‘archive  fever’  and  database  aesthetics  as  strategies  of  a  repositioning  and  reformatting  of  the  humanities;      

• Critical  engagement  with  essentialist  approaches  to  the  past  and  heritage  and  reductive  forms  of  contextualization;  

• Opening  up  the  space  of  literature:  the  relevance  of  popular  culture,  digital  writing,  non-­‐fiction,  therapeutic  and  scientific  writing,  and  the  literariness  of  cultural  representations  in  general.    

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Group  Members      On  the  next  pages  you  find  very  brief  outlines  of  the  group  member’s  bio’s  (affiliation,  sketch  of  research  project,  key  publications)  and  their  email  address:    Stephan  Besser  Paul  Bijl  Yra  van  Dijk  Femke  Essink  Gaston  Franssen  Rudolph  Glitz  Joyce  Goggin  Tara  MacDonald  Suze  van  der  Poll  Jan  Rock  Ellen  Rutten  Guido  Snel  Lisanne  Snelders  Thomas  Vaessens  Sabine  van  Wesemael        

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Stephan  Besser    Assistant  professor,  modern  Dutch  literature    Situated  in  the  field  of  literature  and  science,  Stephan  Bessers  current  research  focuses  on  tropes  and  narratives  of  contemporary  neuroculture  from  an  interdiscursive  perspective.          Key  publications  

• Stephan  Besser,  Pathographie  der  Tropen.  Literatur,  Medizin  und  Kolonialismus  um  1900.  Würzburg,  Königshausen  und  Neumann,  2013.    

• Stephan  Besser,  ‘Tropenkoller:  The  Interdiscursive  Poetics  of  a  German  Colonial  Syndrome’.  In:  G.S.  Rousseau  et  al,  Framing  and  Imagining  Disease  in  Cultural  History.  New  York,  Palgrave  Macmillan,  p.303-­‐320.    

• Stephan  Besser,  ‘Germanin:  Pharmazeutische  Signaturen  des  deutschen  (Post)Kolonialismus’.  In:  A.  Honold  &  Oliver  Simons  (eds),  Kolonialismus  als  Kultur.  Literatur,  Medien,  Wissenschaft  in  der  deutschen  Gründerzeit  des  Fremden.  Tübingen,  Francke,  2002,  p.167-­‐196.  

• Stephan  Besser,  ‘Neurocultuur.  Een  kleine  verkenning’.  Parmentier  21:1,  2012,  21-­‐30.  

• Marie-­‐Aude  Baronian,  Stephan  Besser  &  Yolande  Jansen  (eds),  Diaspora  and  Memory:  Figures  of  Displacement  in  Contemporary  Literature,  Arts  and  Politics.  Amsterdam/New  York,  Rodopi,  2006.    

   Email:  [email protected]        

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Paul  Bijl    Assistant  professor,  modern  Dutch  literature    Paul  Bijl’s  research  is  on  cultural  memories  of  European  colonialism.  In  his  project  ‘The  Transnational  Afterlives  of  Colonized  Voices’  he  focuses  on  the  memories  of  the  voices  of  colonized  writers  in  four  former  colonial  empires,  (Belgium,  France,  Great  Britain,  the  Netherlands).  The  project  will  investigate  how  different  conditions  (such  as  different  forms  of  colonialism,  different  colonized  regions  and  different  national  cultures)  impact  the  ways  in  which  the  voices  of  critical  writers  have  been  remembered  in  the  public  sphere,  both  of  the  metropole  of  their  (former)  colonizers  and  transnationally.      Key  publications  

• P.A.L.  Bijl,  Emerging  Memory:  Photographs  of  Colonial  Atrocity  in  Dutch  Cultural  Remembrance.  Amsterdam,  Amsterdam  University  Press  (forthcoming).  

• P.A.L.  Bijl,  ‘Dutch  Colonial  Nostalgia  across  Decolonization’.  Journal  of  Dutch  Literature  4,  2013.  http://journalofdutchliterature.org  (forthcoming).  

• P.A.L.  Bijl,  ‘Colonial  memory  and  Forgetting  in  the  Netherlands  and  Indonesia’.  Journal  of  Genocide  Research,  14-­‐3/4,  p.441-­‐461.  

• P.A.L.  Bijl,  ‘Embodying  Colonial  Photography:  Remembering  Violence  in  Tabee  Toean’.  Depth  of  Field,  1-­‐1,  2012.  http://journal.depthoffield.eu.  

• P.A.L.  Bijl,  ‘Old,  Eternal  and  Future  Light  in  the  Dutch  East  Indies:  Colonial  Photographs  and  the  History  of  the  Globe’.  In:  Astrid  Erll  &  Ann  Rigney  (Eds),  Mediation,  remediation,  and  the  dynamics  of  cultural  memory.  Berlin,  Gruyter,  2009,  p.49-­‐65.  

   Email:  [email protected]      

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Yra  van  Dijk    Assistant  professor,  modern  Dutch  literature    Yra  van  Dijk’s  research  interest  lays  with  literature,  media  and  memory.  She  studies  the  cultural  and  aesthetic  effects  of  transforming  materialities  of  texts.        Key  publications  

• Yra  van  Dijk,  ‘Reading  the  form.  The  function  of  typographic  blanks  in  modern  poetry’.  In:  Word  and  Image  27-­‐4,  2011,  p.407-­‐415.  

• Yra  van  Dijk,  ‘A  Performance  of  Reality.  Handwriting  and  paper  in  digital  literature’.  In:  Journal  of  Dutch  Literature  3-­‐1,  2011.  

• Thomas  Vaessens  and  Yra  van  Dijk  (eds),  Reconsidering  the  Postmodern:  European  Literature  Beyond  Relativism.  Amsterdam,  Amsterdam  University  Press,  2011.  

• Yra  van  Dijk,  Maarten  De  Pourcq  en  Carl  de  Strycker  (eds),  Draden  in  het  donker.  Intertekstualiteit  in  theorie  en  praktijk.  Nijmegen,  Vantilt,  2013.  

• Yra  van  Dijk:  ‘Picking  up  the  pieces.  History  and  memory  in  European  digital  literature’,  in:  Marcel  Cornis-­‐Pope,  Literature  and  Multimedia  in  late  20th  and  21st  Century  Europe.  John  Benjamins  Press  Series  on  Histories  of  Literatures  in  European  Languages.  Forthcoming.      

       Email:  [email protected]        

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Femke  Essink    PhD-­‐student,  modern  Dutch  literature    Project:  Adaptation  and  the  Heritage  of  the  Sixties              My  research  project  focuses  on  the  shifting  appreciation  of  the  heritage  of  the  sixties.  The  cultural  transformation  that  commenced  in  this  mythical  decade  has  been  of  major  normative  influence  on  Western  society,  particularly  in  the  socio-­‐cultural  domain.  Many  of  the  perceived  achievements  considered  natural  in  this  day  and  age  are  associated  with  the  democratizing  and  emancipatory  developments  of  the  sixties.  However,  in  contemporary  society,  this  heritage  of  the  sixties  is  subject  to  debate.  This  especially  is  remarkable  in  the  Netherlands,  since  in  this  particular  era,  the  country  developed  from  a  rather  inward  and  paternalistic  nation  into  a  progressive  and  tolerant  society.  Using  the  sequential  adaptations  of  Dutch  literary  texts  from  the  sixties  I  will  trace  and  explain  the  continuous  (re)construction  of  the  myth  of  the  sixties.  This  project  is  hereby  situated  within  the  discipline  of  adaptation  studies:  adaptations  are  understood  as  reflexive  spaces  where  implicit  and/or  explicit  ideological  assumptions  are  being  reconsidered.  This  project  outlines  how  literary  texts  from  the  sixties  enter  into  a  discussion  with  their  contemporary  counterparts  and  how  adaptations  pass  on  the  heritage  of  the  sixties  in  an  altered  form.      Email:  [email protected]      

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Gaston  Franssen    Assistant  professor,  modern  Dutch  literature    Gaston  Franssen’s  research  focuses  on  the  impact  of  cultural  diversification  on  modern  literature  and  literary  culture.  Research  topics  include  contemporary  Dutch  and  American-­‐English  literature,  reception  aesthetics,  bestseller  authorship,  literary  celebrity,  performance  poetry,  therapeutic  fiction/fictional  therapy,  and  the  relationship  between  literature  and  popular  culture  in  general.    Key  publications  

• Gaston  Franssen,  ‘The  Performance  of  Poeticity:  Stage  Fright  and  Text  Anxiety  in  Dutch  Performance  Poetry  since  the  1960s.  In:  Authorship  1-­‐2,  2012,  p.1-­‐20.  

• Gaston  Franssen,  ‘Literary  Celebrity  and  the  Discourse  on  Authorship  in  Dutch  Literature’.  In:  Journal  of  Dutch  Literature  1-­‐1,  2010,  p.91-­‐113.  

• Gaston  Franssen,  ‘Intertekstualiteit  versus  interdiscursiviteit’.  In:  Yra  van  Dijk,  Maarten  de  Pourcq,  Carl  de  Strycker  (eds),  Draden  in  het  donker:  intertekstualiteit  in  theorie  en  praktijk.  Nijmegen,  Vantilt,  2013,  p.231-­‐248.  

• Gaston  Franssen.  ‘Van  spiegels  en  vensters:  de  retorica  van  het  canondebat’.  In:  Lizet  Duyvendak,  Saskia  Pieterse  (eds),  Van  spiegels  en  vensters:  de  literaire  canon  in  Nederland.  Hilversum,  Verloren,  2009,  p.97-­‐112.  

• Gaston  Franssen,  gerrit  kouwenaar  en  de  politiek  van  het  lezen.  Nijmegen,  Vantilt  2008.  

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Rudolph  Glitz    Assistant  professor,  English  literature    Rudolph  Glitz  is  interested  in  literary  representations  –  and  enactments  –  of  generational  and  age  group  politics.  How  exactly  do  particular  works  of  literature  contribute  to  the  identity  formation  of,  say,  youth  in  Early  Modernity  or  the  so-­‐called  Generation  of  1914.  How  do  such  age-­‐based  groups  interrelate  with  similar  ones  in  and  through  literature?  And  how  with  other  social  formations  (e.g.  class,  race,  gender)?        Key  publications  

• ‘The  Fertile  Fields  of  the  Unpoetic'.  In:  La  traductière:  revue  franco-­‐anglaise  de  poésie  et  art  visuel  29,  2011,  p.134-­‐144.  

• ‘Making  Worlds  Historical:  The  Politics  and  Aesthetics  of  Sid  Meier’s  Civilization  Series’.  In:  Ansgar  Nünning  et  al.  (Eds),  The  Aesthetics  and  Politics  of  Cultural  Worldmaking.  Trier,  WVT,  2010,  p.161-­‐180.  

• Writing  the  Victorians:  The  Early  Twentieth-­‐Century  Family  Chronicle.  Heidelberg,  Universitätsverlag  Winter,  2009.  

• ‘Horrifying  Ho(l)mes:  Conan  Doyle's  Bachelor  Detective  and  the  Aesthetics  of  Domestic  Realism’.  In:  Paul  Fox  &  Koray  Melikoglu  (Eds),  Formal  Investigations:  Aesthetic  Style  in  Late-­‐Victorian  and  Edwardian  Detective  Fiction.  Stuttgart,  Ibidem,  2007,  p.1-­‐28.  

• Current  article  project  (drafts  presented  at  various  institutions):  ‘“Young  Men  Must  Live”:  Age  Group  Politics  in  Shakespeare’s  Henriad’  

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Joyce  Goggin    Associate  professor,  English  literature    Joyce  Goggin’s  research  focuses  on  literature,  film,  painting  and  new  media,  which  she  approaches  from  an  economic  point  of  view.          Key  publications  

• Joyce  Goggin,  ‘Qu’est  qu’on  réadapte?  Ocean’s  Eleven  et  l’esthétique  de  la  finance’.  In:  A.  Hudelet  &  S.  Wells-­‐Lassagne,  De  la  page  blanche  aux  salles  obscures:  Adaptation  et  réadaption  dans  le  monde  Anglophone.  Rennes,  Presses  Universitaires  de  Rennes,  2011,  p.49-­‐59.  

• Joyce  Goggin,  ‘Of  Gutters  and  Guttersnipes:  Hogarth's  Legacy’.  In:  Joyce  Goggin  &  Dan  Hassler-­‐Forest  (Eds),  The  Rise  and  Reason  of  Comics  and  Graphic  Literature:  Critical  Essays  on  the  Form.  Jefferson,  McFarland,  2010,  p.5-­‐25.  

• Joyce  Goggin,  ‘A  Body  Hermeneutic?  Corpus  Simsi  or  Reading  Like  a  Sim’.  In:  G.  Mitrano  &  E.  Jarosinski  (Eds),  The  Hand  of  the  Interpreter:  Essays  on  Meaning  after  Theory.  Bern,  Peter  Lang,  2008,  p.205-­‐223.  

• Joyce  Goggin,  ‘Reading  and  watching:  literature  and  games.  In  D.  Schram  (Ed.),  Reading  and  watching:  what  does  the  written  word  have  that  images  don't?  Delft,  Eburon,  p.79-­‐92.  

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Tara  MacDonald    Assistant  professor,  English  literature    Tara  MacDonald’s  research  focuses  on  Victorian  and  neo-­‐Victorian  literature,  gender,  and  sexuality.  Her  new  projects  include  a  monograph  on  British  sensation  novels  of  the  1860s,  tentatively  titled  Reading,  Writing,  and  Feeling  in  Victorian  Sensation  Fiction,  and  a  special  journal  issue  on  Neo-­‐Victorianism  and  feminism.          Key  publications  

• Tara  MacDonald  and  Anne-­‐Marie  Beller  (Eds),  Beyond  Braddon:  Re-­‐Assessing  Female  Sensationalists.  Special  Issue  of  Women’s  Writing  20-­‐2,  2013.  

• Tara  MacDonald,  ‘Sensation  Fiction,  Gender  and  Identity’.  In:  Andrew  Mangham  (Ed.),  The  Cambridge  Companion  to  Sensation  Fiction.  Cambridge  University  Press,  2013.  

• Tara  MacDonald,  ‘The  Failure  of  the  New  Man:  Masculinity  in  The  Odd  Women’.  In:  Christine  Huguet  and  Simon  J.  James  (Eds),  George  Gissing  and  the  Woman  Question:  Convention  and  Dissent.  Ashgate,  2013.  

• Tara  MacDonald,  ‘Doctors,  Dandies  and  New  Men:  Ella  Hepworth  Dixon  and  Late-­‐Century  Masculinities’.  In:  Women’s  Writing  19-­‐1,  2012,  p.41-­‐57.  

• Tara  MacDonald,  ‘‘Vulgar  Publicity’  and  Problems  of  Privacy  in  Margaret  Oliphant’s  Salem  Chapel’.  In:  Critical  Survey.  Special  Issue  on  Other  Sensations  (Ed.  Janice  Allan),  23-­‐1,  2011,  p.25-­‐41.  

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Suze  van  der  Poll    Assistant  professor,  Scandinavian  literature    Suze  van  der  Poll’s  research  interest  lies  in  visual  arts,  culture  and  literature,  adopting  a  transnational  perspective  on  late    post-­‐modern  Scandinavian  literature.  Special  interest  in  literature  as  cultural  memory,  autonarration.  Other  fields  of  interest:  theatre  and  national  identity        Key  publications  

• Suze  van  der  Poll,  ‘Norwegian  literature:  the  return  of  the  narrative’.  In  T.  Vaessens  &  Y.  van  Dijk  (Eds),  Reconsidering  the  Postmoder.  European  Literature  Beyond  Relativism.  Amsterdam,  Amsterdam  University  Press,  p.133-­‐148.  

• Suze  van  der  Poll  &  R.  van  der  Zalm,  Henrik  Ibsen.  De  zomer  beschrijf  je  het  best  op  een  winterdag:  brieven:  geselecteerd,  vertaald,  ingeleid  en  van  commentaar  voorzien  door  Suze  van  der  Poll  &  R.  van  der  Zalm.  Amsterdam,  De  Arbeiderspers,  2009.  

• Suze  van  der  Poll,  Realismer  i  norsk  samtidsprosa.  Dissertation  UvA,  Amsterdam  2009.  

• Suze  van  der  Poll,  ‘Maskeblomstfamilien.  En  hybrid?’.  In:  Christine  Hamm,  Jørgen  Magnus  Sejersted  og  Lars  Rune  Waage  (red),  Tekster  på  tvers.  Trondheim,  Tapir  Akademisk  Forlag,  2008,  p.297-­‐209.  

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Jan  Rock    Postdoctoral  researcher,  modern  Dutch  literature    Jan  Rock’s  postdoctoral  research  project  investigates  virtual  collections  of  Dutch  literary  heritage  from  pre-­‐digital  times  and  both  scholarly  and  popular  uses  made  of  them.  He  focuses  on  two  twentieth-­‐century  cases:  the  Bibliotheca  Neerlandica  Manuscripta  (Leiden)  and  the  Letterkundig  Museum  (The  Hague).    Key  publications  

• Jan  Rock,  Papieren  monumenten.  Over  diepe  breuken  en  lange  lijnen  in  de  geschiedenis  van  tekstedities  in  de  Nederlanden  1591-­‐1863.  Doctoral  thesis:  Universiteit  van  Amsterdam.  

• David  Van  Reybrouck,  R.  De  Bont,  &  Jan  Rock,  ‘Material  Rhetoric:  Spreading  Stones  and  Showing  Bones  in  the  Study  of  Prehistory’.  In  Science  in  Context  22,  p.195-­‐216.  

• Jan  Rock,  ‘“Remember  Dousa!”  Literary  historicism  and  scholarly  traditions  in  Dutch  philology  before  1860’.  T.  van  Kalmthout  &  H.  Zuidervaart  (eds),  The  Practice  of  Philology  in  the  Nineteenth  Century  Netherlands.  Amsterdam,  Amsterdam  University  Press  [submitted  for  peer  review,  11.980  words].  

• Jan  Rock,  ‘‘De  Ezel  die  een  Leeuwenhuid  aangedaan  hadt’.  De  ontmaskering  van  Klaas  Kolijn  en  de  Nederlandse  filologie  (1709-­‐1777)’.  In:  De  Achttiende  Eeuw  41-­‐1,  p.75-­‐93.  

• Jan  Rock,  ‘Ridders  van  de  natie  en  van  de  academie.  De  kroniek  van  Jan  van  Heelu  tussen  nationale  epiek  en  internationale  geleerdheid  1836-­‐1848’.  In:  N.  Bemong,  M.  Kemperink,  M.  Mathijsen  &  T.  Sintobin  (eds),  Naties  in  een  spanningsveld.  Tegenstrijdige  bewegingen  in  de  processen  van  identiteitsvorming  in  de  negentiende-­‐eeuwse  Lage  Landen.  Nijmegen,  Vantilt,  2013.  

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Ellen  Rutten    Full  professor,  Russian  literature    Ellen  Rutten  adopts  a  transnational  perspective  to  explore  post-­‐Soviet  Russian  culture,  literature,  art,  and  design;  she  has  a  special  interest  in  digital  media,  memory,  and  emotion  studies.        Key  publications  

• Ellen  Rutten,  ‘Old  Conflicts,  New  Media:  Post-­‐Socialist  Digital  Memories’.  In:  E.  Rutten,  J.  Fedor,  V.  Zvereva  (Eds),  Memory,  Conflict  and  Media:  Web  Wars  in  Post-­‐Socialist  States.  New  York,  Routledge  (in  print).      

• Ellen  Rutten,  ‘Post-­‐Communist  Sincerity  and  Sorokin’s  Thrilogy’.  In:  B.  Lange,  N.  Weller,  G.  Witte  (Eds),  Die  nicht  mehr  neuen  Menschen:  russische  Filme  und  Romane  der  Jahrtausendwende.  Wiener  Slawistischer  Almanach:  Sonderband  79  (p.27-­‐55).  Munich,  Sagner,  2012.  

• Ellen  Rutten,  ‘Russian  Literature:  Reviving  Sincerity  in  the  Post-­‐Soviet  World’.  In:  Y.  van  Dijk  &  T.  Vaessens  (Eds),  Reconsidering  the  Postmodern:  European  Literature  Beyond  Relativism.  Chicago/Amsterdam,  Chicago/Amsterdam  University  Press,  2011,  p.27-­‐41.    

• Ellen  Rutten,  ‘Web  Wars:  Digital  Diasporas  and  the  Language  of  Memory’.  In:  Digital  Icons:  Studies  in  Russian,  Eurasian  and  Central  European  New  Media,  4,  2010:  War,  Conflict  and  Commemoration  in  the  Age  of  Digital  Reproduction  (ed.  Adi  Kuntsman).  

• Ellen  Rutten,  ‘Art  as  Therapy.  Sorokin’s  Strifle  with  the  Soviet  Trauma  Across  Media’.  In:  Russian  Literature  65-­‐4,  2009,  p.539-­‐559.  

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Guido  Snel    Assistant  professor,  European  Studies    Guido  Snel’s  research  interest  is  with  art  and  literature  that  was  made  or  written  during  the  Bosnian  war,  or  that  reflects  on  it.  Other  fields  of  research  interest:  multilingualism,  literature  as  cultural  memory,  and  debates  on  the  (non)sense  of  a  European  literature.      Key  publications  

• Guido  Snel,  ‘Lingua  franca  in  Central  Europe  after  the  Disappearance  of  German’.  In:  Yearbook  of  European  Studies  29,  2012,  p.235-­‐252.  

• Guido  Snel,  ‘Post-­‐Yugoslav  literature:  the  return  of  history  and  the  actuality  of  fiction’.  In  T.  Vaessens  &  Y.  van  Dijk  (Eds),  Reconsidering  the  postmodern:  European  literature  beyond  relativism.  Amsterdam,  Amsterdam  University  Press,  p.115-­‐132.  

• Guido  Snel,  ‘Three  Forsaken  Poets.  Memory  and  Amnesia  in  Balkan  Modernism’.  In:  S.  Bahun  (Ed.),  Balkan  modernisms:  approaches  and  sources.  Oxford,  Oxford  University  Press,  2010.  

• Guido  Snel,  ‘Miloš  Crnjanski  in  exile’.  In:  J.  Neubauer  &  B.Z.  Török  (Eds),  The  exile  and  return  of  writers  from  East  Central  Europe:  a  compendium.  Berlin,  Walter  de  Gruyter,  2009,  p.309-­‐324.  

• Guido  Snel,  ‘Dealing  with  cultural  diversity  at  the  borders  of  the  Slavic  realm’.  In:  E.  de  Haard,  W.  Honselaar  &  J.  Stelleman  (Eds),  Literature  and  beyond:  Festschrift  for  Willem  G.  Weststeijn  on  the  occasion  of  his  65th  birthday.  Amsterdam,  Pegasus,  2008,  p.737-­‐753.  

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Lisanne  Snelders    PhD-­‐student,  modern  Dutch  literature    Project:  The  Dynamics  of  Literary  Heritage.  The  Case  of  the  Dutch  East  Indies              This  project  researches  the  cultural  memory  of  the  Dutch  East  Indies  in  literature.The  remembrance  of  the  colonial  period  in  the  Dutch  East  Indies,  or  the  ‘Insulinde’  as  it  has  been  tenderly  called,  is  a  dynamic  process  of  constant  negotiation  in  which  media  such  as  literature  play  an  important  role.  Deploying  insights  from  both  memory  studies  as  postcolonial  studies,  this  project  takes  three  postcolonial  authors  from  different  ethnic  and  national  backgrounds  (Hella  Haasse,  Tjalie  Robinson,  Pramoedya  Ananta  Toer)  as  its  case  studies.  Besides  studying  the  way  in  which  the  work  of  these  authors  has  been  read  and  framed  over  time,  the  project  aims  to  explore  the  way  in  which  their  authorships  are  being  constructed,  which  factors  play  a  role  in  these  constructions  and  what  the  mnemonic  effects  of  these  constructions  are.  Using  a  discourse-­‐analytical  approach,  it  aims  at  identifying  the  role  literature  plays  in  debates  on  history  and  heritage  and  the  way  in  which  literature  contributes  to  the  construction  of  the  changing  memory  of  the  Dutch  East  Indies.      Email:  [email protected]      

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Thomas  Vaessens    Full  professor,  modern  Dutch  literature    Thomas  Vaessens’  research  interests: modern  and  contemporary  literature,  effective  history  (Wirkungsgeschichte),  interdiscursivity    (literature  and  politics,  literature  and  popular  culture,  literature  and  ethics...),  appropriation,  adaptation,  functions  of  literature,  literarity,  the  novel.    Key  publications  

• Thomas  Vaessens,  ‘Dutch  Novelists  Beyond  ‘Postmodern’  Relativism’.  In:  Journal  of  Dutch  Literature  2-­‐1,  2011,  p.5-­‐34.  

• Thomas  Vaessens,  ‘Making  Overtures:  Literature  and  Journalism,  1968  and  2011  –  a  Dutch  Perspective’.  In:  Literary  Journalism  Studies  3-­‐2,  2011,  p.55-­‐72.  

• Thomas  Vaessens  and  Yra  van  Dijk  (eds),  Reconsidering  the  Postmodern:  European  Literature  Beyond  Relativism.  Amsterdam,  Amsterdam  University  Press,  2011.  

• Thomas  Vaessens,  Geschiedenis  van  de  moderne  Nederlandse  literatuur.  Nijmegen,  Vantilt,  2013.  

• Thomas  Vaessens,  De  revanche  van  de  roman.  Literatuur,  autoriteit  en  engagement.  Nijmegen,  Vantilt,  2009.  

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Sabine  van  Wesemael    Assistant  professor,  French  literature    Sabine  van  Wesemael’s  current  research  focuses  on  the  extreme  contemporary  French  novel  from  a  interdisciplinary  perspective            Key  publications  

• Sabine  van  Wesemael,  Michel  Houellebecq.  Le  plaisir  du  texte.  Paris,  L’Harmattan,  2005.  

• Sabine  van  Wesemael,  Le  roman  transgressif  contemporain:  de  Bret  Easton  Ellis  à  Michel  Houellebecq.  Paris,  L’Harmattan,  2010.  

• Sabine  van  Wesemael,  ‘Tegen  de  wereld,  tegen  het  leven  :  over  de  verwantschap  tussen  Michel  Houellebecq  en  Arnon  Grunberg’.  In:  Tijdschrift  voor  Nederlandse  taal-­‐  en  letterkunde  126-­‐3,  2010,  p.285-­‐305.  

• Sabine  van  Wesemael:  ‘French  literature:  postrealims  and  anti-­‐realism’.  In:  Thomas  Vaessens  &  Yra  van  Dijk  (Eds),  Reconsidering  the  postmodern:  European  literature  beyond  relativism,  Amsterdam,  Amsterdam  University  Press,  2011,  p.93-­‐113.  

• Sabine  van  Wesemael,  ‘Ravel  de  Jean  Echenoz:  un  autoportrait  en  creux  de  l’auteur’.  In  :  Jean-­‐Michel  Wittmann  (Ed.),  Biographie  et  roman,  Metz,  Collection  Recherches  en  littérature,  Université  de  Lorraine,  2012,  p.91-­‐106.  

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