Staff members with discipline Literary Theory & Criticism
Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.
English and Anglophone Literatures and Cultures; Ecocriticism; Travel and Mobility; Life Writing; Bildungsroman; Children’s Writing; Heterotopia; Diaspora; Transculturality.
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v.alexander rug.nl
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Assistant Professor (UD1)/Senior Lecturer
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Middle English (Religious) Literature, History of the Book, Material Culture, Devotional Reading Practices, Memoralisation, Testamentary Charity
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j.bleeker rug.nl
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PhD Student
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Scandinavian literature, culture, history, dance; cultural transfer and transmission studies; minority literature and culture
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p.broomans rug.nl
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Associate Professor European Languages and Cultures (Scandinavian studies) with ius promovendi
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Cultural memory; popular culture; modern German literature and culture; culture of the Weimar Republic; intermediality; intertextuality
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c.h.f.flinterman rug.nl
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PhD student
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j.gallego.benot rug.nl
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PhD student
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Alberto Godioli is Associate Professor in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen, and Programme Director of the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (OSL). He obtained his PhD in 2012 from the Scuola Normale Superiore... read more
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a.godioli rug.nl
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Associate Professor (UHD1) with Ius Promovendi
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Roman poetry, comparative mythology
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h.l.m.hermans rug.nl
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Theory of culture; culture and cognition; arts and cognition; arts and culture education
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Professor emeritus
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Literature, Modernism, Women's Travel Writing, and Migrant Fiction
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a.c.hoag rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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French and Francophone culture and literature
Populism in France and the Netherlands
Culture and identity politics
Gender studies
Populism in France and the Netherlands
Culture and identity politics
Gender studies
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j.f.jansma rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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Narrative and cognitive film theory
Digital Film Forensics / Videographic Criticism
Complex cinema, puzzle films
Digital Film Forensics / Videographic Criticism
Complex cinema, puzzle films
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Associate Professor of Audiovisual Arts and Cognition
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My research interests include film, TV, and videogame studies, bringing together narrative, cognitive, and cultural approaches to these media. My current focus is on critical approaches to empathy across media. I am the author of Mental Illness and... read more
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m.kreitler rug.nl
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(long) nineteenth-century English literature and culture (esp. novel, gender, popularity, Empire, realism, Anglo-German relations); travel writing (often with a China/Hong Kong focus, theories of travel/ writing); literary and poetic theory (genre,... read more
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j.c.kuhn rug.nl
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Translation Studies, Sociolinguistics (specifically, urban youth language), Literary Studies (specifically, migrant literature and YA literature), Sociology of Literature
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assistant professor
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European Culture, European Crises; Cultural Production in Times of Conflict; Cultural Self-Reflection; Migration and Contemporary Culture
Literature and Film; Literary Theory; Visual Studies; Documentary Film; Film Theory
Sociology; Discourse Theory;... read more
Literature and Film; Literary Theory; Visual Studies; Documentary Film; Film Theory
Sociology; Discourse Theory;... read more
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Associate Professor in European Culture and Literature, Director Research Centre for the Study of Democratic Cultures and Politics
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Gemma López Canicio is Research Fellow in European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen. Her expertise is in narrative research, emphasizing artistic-narrative communication (literature and cinema), fiction, story-telling, and... read more
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g.lopez.canicio rug.nl
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Melissa Luypaers is a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen working on the Humour in Court project financed by the Dutch Research Council. They hold a Bachelor’s degree in European Languages and Cultures (with a focus on literary studies and... read more
interdisciplinary modernism, modern and contemporary British literature (specializing in the literature of the mid-twentieth century), literature and politics, environmental humanities, the novel
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a.k.maher rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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The fiction and literary archives of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The prose of Indian writer Kiran Nagarkar and satire in modern Indian literature. Postcolonial Studies in Literature related to former British colonies; diaspora fiction and transnational writing;... read more
Modern English literature, print culture, book history, periodicals, publishing studies, typography, literary modernism, nationalism, James Joyce, genre fiction, contemporary romance, fanfiction, retellings, translingual and transcultural fiction,... read more
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t.d.mecsnober rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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Narrative studies and narratology
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Assistant professor
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Internationalisation: International Strategy & Relations.
Qualitative communication support for written and spoken English.
University-wide Language and Culture Policy. Diversity & Inclusion.
ENLIGHT. See CV in pdf.
Qualitative communication support for written and spoken English.
University-wide Language and Culture Policy. Diversity & Inclusion.
ENLIGHT. See CV in pdf.
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g.e.muda rug.nl
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Project Manager Language and Culture Policy / English Teacher and Coach
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Latin literature
Literary theory
Literary theory
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r.r.nauta rug.nl
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Professor of Latin emeritus
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grant advice, academic editing, translation, translation studies
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t.nutters rug.nl
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Funding Officer at the Faculties of Spatial Sciences and Religion, Culture and Society
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j.a.oosterheert rug.nl
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PhD student
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Computational Linguistics, Computational Literary Studies, Semantic Web Technology, Academic Website here
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f.a.pannach rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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Assistant Professor in Computational Humanities
Comics studies; narrative theory; English for Academic Purposes; 20th and 21st century American Literature; graphic narrative; word and image
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Lecturer
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Contemporary Russian literature and art
Postcolonial literatures and theory
Memory studies
Postsocialist and postcolonial studies
South African literature and culture
Postcolonial literatures and theory
Memory studies
Postsocialist and postcolonial studies
South African literature and culture
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k.robbe rug.nl
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Assistant professor/Senior lecturer (UD 1)
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critical approaches to American literature, art, and media, 1900 to the present; modernism; utopia in literature, theory, and history; the culture of politics and politics of culture in the 21st century
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k.s.roberts rug.nl
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Senior Lecturer in American Studies
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Nederlandse literatuur van de twintigste en eenentwintigste eeuw in internationale context; literatuur en ecologie; hedendaagse poëzie
postcolonial theory, diaspora studies, memory studies, life writing, Middle East studies
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a.sathananthar rug.nl
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J.D. Schnepf's current research focuses on the literature and culture of the US security state, surveillance technologies, extractive infrastructures, domestic labor, and the War on Terror. Her writing has appeared and is forthcoming in academic journals... read more
twentieth-century literature, post-war American poetry, modernism, magic and witches from Shakespeare to twentieth-century literature and popular culture, environmental humanities, particularly poetry and ecology
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d.tamas rug.nl
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Lecturer in Modern English Literature (fixed-term)
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Contemporary Literature and Culture in French; Canadian Studies; Representation of space in the contemporary novel in Québec; Franco-Iranian womens' literature; Migrant and Minority Writing; Gender Studies; Identity and Exile; Life Writing
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Assistant Professor / Director Centre for Canadian Studies
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PhD student
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Pablo Valdivia is Chair-Full Professor of European Culture and Literature (University of Groningen), Director Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture ICOG (University of Groningen), Accreditated Full Professor [Catedrático Universidad] of... read more
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p.valdivia rug.nl
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Vera Veldhuizen is assistant professor in both European Languages and Cultures, and Arts, Media, Culture at the University of Groningen. Previously she attended Cambridge University for her PhD in children's literature, with Homerton College and the... read more
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Assistant Professor
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Visser is a member of the Dutch Literary Society (Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde); member of the Royal Dutch Society of Sciences (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen); member of the Deutscher Germanistenverband-Gesellschaft für Hochschulgermanistik and member of the Netherlands Graduate School for Literary Studies (OSL).
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Dean Faculty of Arts/Full Professor of Modern European, in particular German, Literature and Culture
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Institutional Approach to Dutch Modern Literature, professionalization and internationalisation of the literary Field, reading Culture and book Science.
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Assistant Professor
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toxicity, ecocriticism, time studies, nuclear aesthetics, cultural analysis, the body
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r.e.de.vos rug.nl
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Lecturer
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Postcolonial European cultural identity; contemporary South African culture, the Afrikaans literary field, and the public sphere. Transnational cultural production. Interdisciplinary project-based education.
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m.c.van.der.waal rug.nl
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Associate Professor and Director of Studies Erasmus Mundus Master Euroculture: European society, culture, and politics in a global context. Also Endowed Chair of South African literature, culture and history (University of Amsterdam)
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Film & Media Studies | Narrative Studies & Narratology | Arts & Cognition | Empirical Aesthetics|
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s.p.m.willemsen rug.nl
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Assistant Professor in Arts & Cognition
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Alexander Williams is a PhD candidate at the Institute for the Study of Culture (ICOG), University of Groningen. By focusing on survivor testimonies concerning the former the Aktion Reinhardt extermination camps—Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka—his research... read more
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a.a.g.williams rug.nl
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PhD Candidate and Lecturer on the Holocaust and Nazi Germany
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Satire, Humor, Environmental Humanities, Ecocriticism, Identity
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s.m.zekavat rug.nl
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