Joep Leerssen
Joseph Theodoor "Joep" Leerssen (* 1955 in Leiden ) is a Dutch literary scholar and historian. He is Academy Professor for Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam .
Life
Leerssen studied English and comparative literary history in Aachen and Anglo-Irish studies at University College Dublin and Toronto. In 1986 he received his doctorate from the University of Utrecht and then went to the University of Amsterdam, where he received the Chair of Modern European Literature in 1991.
He dealt with the historical development of national identities and stereotypes, for example the formation of the Irish national identity.
In the Netherlands he was involved in the official recognition of Limburgish as a regional language.
In 2014 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bucharest . From 1995 to 2006 he was director of the Huizinga Institute. In 2003 he was an Erasmus Lecturer at Harvard University and in 2009 a Parnell Fellow at Magdalene College, Cambridge. From 2011 to 2012 he was a fellow at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg of the University of Göttingen. In 2010 he became Academy Professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences.
In 2008 he received the Spinoza Prize . He has been a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences since 2008, an honorary member of the Royal Irish Academy since 2009 and a member of the Academia Europaea since 2010 . He was accepted as a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen .
Fonts
- Mere Irish & Fíor-Ghael: studies in the idea of Irish nationality, its development and literary expression prior to the nineteenth century, Cork University Press 1986, 1996
- with Field Day: Remembrance and Imagination: patterns in the historical and literary representation of Ireland in the nineteenth century, Cork University Press 1996
- Editor with Manfred Beller: Imagology, 2007
- National Thought in Europe: a cultural history, Amsterdam University Press 2006
- Comparative literature in Great Britain, 1800–1950, Bouvier 1984
- with Menno Spiering (editor): National identity: symbol and representations, Amsterdam 1991
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leerssen, Joep |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Leerssen, Joseph Theodoor (full name); Leerssen, Joep |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Suffer |