English Language and Culture

As the oldest English department in the Netherlands we have a long tradition of commitment to excellent teaching and high-quality research. Our staff have received their doctorates and teaching experience at leading Dutch universities as well as international institutions including Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, UCL, University of Virginia, Toronto, McGill, Trinity College Dublin, and Edinburgh. At the same time, students' theses are supervised by researchers whose work is being published and read throughout the English-speaking world.

Research covers all areas of English literature and linguistics. Our particular strengths lie in medieval and early modern culture, Romanticism, Modernism, language development, and we publish widely on such topics as critical theory, visual culture, travel literature, Western literature on the Pacific, women's writing, medieval learning, manuscript studies, or language acquisition and loss. Our staff members run or participate in a number of international research projects, including the Hakluyt Editorial Project.