Curriculum vitae (short)

Education and Academic training:

1992
Phd - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Le Salut par la fiction: sens, valeurs et narrativité dans Le Roi des aulnes de Michel Tournier)

1982
Masters in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

1976-77
Diplôme d’études approfondies (DEA) Université Paris VIII (French Government scholarship)

1976
Masters in French language and literature, University of Utrecht

1971
French Baccalauréat littéraire, Lycée Chateaubriand, Rome

 

Professional experience

• Academic positions

1999-today
Chair of Literary Theory and chair of Modern French Literature, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

1980-1999
 Assistant professor of French Literature; intermittently, of Literary Theory, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

 

• Other professional activities

1992-1999
Free-lance critic, responsible for reviewing French and francophone Literature (Trouw)

1980-1985
Free-lance critic for French and francophone Literature (NRC-Handelsblad)

 

Academic memberships and responsibilities (selection)

2009-

Member of the Board of the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, GroningenUniversity

2003-2009
Head of the Department of Arts, Culture and Media, GroningenUniversity

Since 2003
Director of studies for the Research Masters Literature and Performing Arts, GroningenUniversity

1999-2001
Member of the Board of the Research School Agricola, Faculty of Arts, GroningenUniversity

1999-2006
Chair of the Dutch Association for Comparative Literature and literary Theory (VAL)

1999-2007
Member of the ‘Verkenningscommissie Letterkunde’ of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW), co-author of the resulting report

2005-2007
Member of the selection committee for the NWO (Dutch Scientific Council) VICI-grants

Since 1999
Member of the editorial board of CRIN Journal of French Literature

Since 2007
Member of the editorial board of Relief (international electronic journal of French Literature)