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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.

Overview of all disciplines

English and Anglophone Literatures and Cultures; Ecocriticism; Travel and Mobility; Life Writing; Bildungsroman; Children’s Writing; Heterotopia; Diaspora; Transculturality.
V. (Vera) Alexander, Dr
Contact
v.alexander rug.nl
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Assistant Professor (UD1)/Senior Lecturer
Scandinavian literature, culture, history, dance; cultural transfer and transmission studies; minority literature and culture
prof. dr. P. (Petra) Broomans
Contact
p.broomans rug.nl
Function
Associate Professor European Languages and Cultures (Scandinavian studies) with ius promovendi
Cultural memory; popular culture; modern German literature and culture; culture of the Weimar Republic; intermediality; intertextuality
C.H.F. (Chris) Flinterman, MA
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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

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...
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A. (Alberto) Godioli, PhD
Contact
a.godioli rug.nl
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Associate Professor (with Ius Promovendi)
Roman poetry, comparative mythology
A. (Andrea) Harbach, Dr
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a.harbach rug.nl
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Lecturer
Theory of culture; culture and cognition; arts and cognition; arts  and culture education
prof. dr. B.P. (Barend) van Heusden
Contact
b.p.van.heusden rug.nl
+31 50 36 36018
Function
Professor emeritus
Literature, Modernism, Women's Travel Writing, and Migrant Fiction
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a.c.hoag rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor
French and Francophone culture and literature
Populism in France and the Netherlands
Culture and identity politics
Gender studies
dr. J.F. (Judith) Jansma
Contact
j.f.jansma rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor
Narrative and cognitive film theory
Digital Film Forensics / Videographic Criticism 
Complex cinema, puzzle films
dr. M. (Miklós) Kiss
Contact
m.kiss rug.nl
+31 50 36 37269
Function
Associate Professor of Audiovisual Arts and Cognition
(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
prof. dr. J.C. (Julia) Kühn
Contact
j.c.kuhn rug.nl
Function
Translation Studies, Sociolinguistics (specifically, urban youth language), Literary Studies (specifically, migrant literature and YA literature), Sociology of Literature
dr. S.I. (Stella) Linn
Contact
s.i.linn rug.nl
+31 50 36 35268
Function
assistant professor
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;...
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F.J. (Florian) Lippert, Dr
Contact
f.j.lippert rug.nl
+31 50 36 34655
Function
Associate Professor (UHD) in European Culture and Literature, Director Research Centre for the Study of Democratic Cultures and Politics
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
G. (Gemma) Lopez Canicio, PhD
Contact
g.lopez.canicio rug.nl
Function
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
M.M.B. (Melissa) Luypaers, MA
Contact
m.m.b.luypaers rug.nl
Function
PhD Candidate
Field / Discipline
Dutch as a second language / Language and Culture
drs. F.C.M. (Fros) van der Maden
Contact
f.c.m.van.der.maden rug.nl
Function
Teacher Dutch Language and Culture
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
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; diaspora fiction and transnational writing; genetic criticism in literary... read more
P.G. (Pauline) Mc Gonagle, Dr
Contact
p.g.mc.gonagle rug.nl
Function
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
T.D. (Tekla) Mecsnóber, Dr
Contact
t.d.mecsnober rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor
Narrative studies and narratology
dr. S.J. (Sjoerd-Jeroen) Moenandar
Contact
s.j.moenandar rug.nl
+31 50 36 36939
Function
Assistant professor
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.
dr. G.E. (Liesbeth) Muda
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g.e.muda rug.nl
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Project Manager Language and Culture Policy / English Teacher and Coach
Latin literature
Literary theory
R.R. (Ruurd) Nauta
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r.r.nauta rug.nl
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Professor of Latin emeritus
grant advice, academic editing, translation, translation studies
drs. T. (Tia) Nutters
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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
J.A. (Jet) Oosterheert
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j.a.oosterheert rug.nl
Function
PhD student
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
I'm interested in digital social reading (how people write and read fiction online) and I use computational, qualitative, and quantitative methods to study how people read.

I'm Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant project GOLEM (Graphs and...
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F. (Federico) Pianzola, PhD
Contact
f.pianzola rug.nl
+31 6 3198 4081
Function
Assistant Professor in Computational Humanities
Comics studies, narrative theory, word and image
dr. B. (Barbara) Postema
Contact
b.postema rug.nl
+31 6 3198 4150
Function
Lecturer
Contemporary Russian literature and art
Postcolonial literatures and theory
Memory studies
Postsocialist and postcolonial studies
South African literature and culture
K. (Ksenia) Robbe, Dr
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k.robbe rug.nl
Function
Assistant professor/Senior lecturer (UD 1)
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
K.S. (Kathryn) Roberts, Dr
Contact
k.s.roberts rug.nl
Function
Senior Lecturer in American Studies
Nederlandse literatuur van de twintigste en eenentwintigste eeuw in internationale context; literatuur en ecologie; hedendaagse poëzie
prof. dr. M.P.J. (Mathijs) Sanders
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m.p.j.sanders rug.nl
Function
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
J.D. Schnepf, PhD
Contact
j.d.schnepf rug.nl
Function
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
D. (Dorka) Tamás, Dr
Contact
d.tamas rug.nl
Function
Lecturer in Modern English Literature (fixed-term)
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
dr. J.M.L. (Jeanette) den Toonder
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j.m.l.den.toonder rug.nl
+31 50 36 35891
Function
Assistant Professor / Director Centre for Canadian Studies
M.F.W. (Merlijn) Torensma, MA
Contact
m.f.w.torensma rug.nl
+31 6 4300 6913
Function
PhD student
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
dr. V.N. (Vera) Veldhuizen
Contact
v.n.veldhuizen rug.nl
+31 50 36 35202
Function
Assistant Professor
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).
prof. dr. A. (Thony) Visser
Contact
anthonya.visser rug.nl
+31 50 36 37905
Function
Dean Faculty of Arts/Full Professor of Modern European, in particular German, Literature and Culture
Institutional Approach to Dutch Modern Literature, professionalization and internationalisation of the literary Field, reading Culture and book Science.
dr. S. (Sandra) van Voorst
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s.van.voorst rug.nl
+31 50 36 35868 geen voic emai l
Function
Assistant Professor
toxicity, ecocriticism, time studies, nuclear aesthetics, cultural analysis, the body
R.E. (Ruby) de Vos
Contact
r.e.de.vos rug.nl
Function
Lecturer
Oscar Wilde
Victorian Literature and Culture
Neo-Victorian Literatre / contemporary appropriations of 19th century literature
Literary Theory
Postmodernism
Word and Music Studies
dr. K. (Kees) de Vries
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kornelis.de.vries rug.nl
Function
Lecturer in English Language and Culture
Postcolonial European cultural identity; contemporary South African culture, the Afrikaans literary field, and the public sphere. Transnational cultural production. Interdisciplinary project-based education.
prof. dr. M.C. (Margriet) van der Waal
Contact
m.c.van.der.waal rug.nl
Function
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)
Film & Media Studies | Narrative Studies & Narratology | Arts & Cognition | Empirical Aesthetics|
dr. S.P.M. (Steven) Willemsen
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s.p.m.willemsen rug.nl
Function
Assistant Professor in Arts & Cognition
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
A.A.G. (Alexander) Williams
Contact
a.a.g.williams rug.nl
Function
PhD student
Satire, Humor, Environmental Humanities, Ecocriticism, Identity
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s.m.zekavat rug.nl
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