dr. J.J.H. (Jacqueline) Klooster

Coordinator of the new University Minor program The Mirror of Myth (started November 2022)

Coordinator of the implementation of active learning and blended learning strategies. _{I monitor and advise on teaching practices in the department, as well as organising workshops and discussion sessions for colleagues in which we design new teaching and testing practices and discuss and establish best practices, which are aim at promoting the self-learning abilities and independence of the students and further their active participation in the learning process.}

2019 Nominated by the Classics students 'Lecturer of the Year’ and shortlisted by the Network of Arts selection committee. The student nomination praised my ‘inspiring style of supervision, enthusiasm, personal engagement, and ability to show the value of Classics in our current society.’

TEACHING PORTFOLIO

PhD SUPERVISION

_{Completed: Tine Scheinen (PhD 2016) University of Ghent, Quintus of Smyrna’s Post-Homerica: A Study of Heroic Characterization and Heroism.  (supervisor: prof. dr. K. Demoen, co-supervisors: Prof. dr. K. De Temmerman; prof. dr. S. Bär)}

 Current:

_{Jos Janssen MA, RUG: The Political Philosophy of Seneca’s Tragedies (main supervisor Prof. dr. R.R. Nauta, co-supervisor, Dr. L.A. Joosse)}

_{Marije Derksen MA, Radboud University, Chatterboxes, Seductresses and Emotional Wrecks. Anchoring Innovation in Female Characterization in Hellenistic Poetry ( main supervisor Prof. dr. A.M.P.H. Lardinois, co-supervisor dr. F. Overduin)}

GREEK LITERATURE AND CULTURE BA

_{Greek Epic (5 ECTS)}

_{Greek Drama (5 ECTS)}

_{Poetry Analysis Greek Lyric (5 ECTS)}

_{Historiography and Documentary Texts (5 ECTS)}

_{History of Greek Literature I (5 ECTS)}

_{History of Greek Literature II (5 ECTS)}

_{Integration and Excursion Module Greece (5 ECTS)}

_{Research Seminar Greek BA (Epigram 2021; Theocritus 2018) (5 ECTS)}

GREEK LITERATURE AND CULTURE MA

_{Theme Course Greek and Latin: Fate and Fortune and the Rise of Rome (2017) (10 ECTS)}

_{Theme Course Greek and Latin: Fate and Fortune in Classical Literature (2018) (10 ECTS)}

_{Theme Course Greek: Tragic Fates (Tragedy) (2019) (5 ECTS)}

_{Theme Course Greek: Tragic Women (Tragedy) (2020) (5 ECTS)}

_{Commentary Course: Panegyrics (Dio Chrysostom / Pliny) (2018) (10 ECTS)}

_{Commentary Course: Didactic Poetry (Ps.Oppian Kynegetika / Lucretius) (2019, 2020) (10ECTS)}

GREEK LANUAGE ACQUISITION BA

_{Greek Language Acquisition, Levels 1-3 (5ECTS)}

_{Greek for Beginners (for non-Classicists, in English) (5 ECTS)}

_{Greek intermediate module (for non-Greek exam students) (5 ECTS)}

GREEK LANGUAGE ACQUISITION MA

_{Greek for Beginners and Research (2020) (10 ECTS)}

LATIN LITERATURE AND CULTURE BA

_{Historiography and Documentary Texts (Livy, Tacitus 5 ECTS)}

LATIN LITERATURE AND CULTURE MA

_{Theme Course: Aetiology (Hesiod, Callimachus, Ovid 2017) (10 ECTS)}

MYTHOLOGY

_{Ancient Mythology (Elective Minor) (5 ECTS)}

_{The Mirror of Myth: Stories ; Functions ; Theories (3 separate modules in University Minor program, 15 ECTS)}

ACADEMIC SKILLS BA

_{Academic Skills for Classicists (5 ECTS)}

_{Rhetoric and Science Communication (BA, minor Rhetoric, 5 ECTS)}

ACADEMIC METHODS AND APPROACHES RE-MA

_{Approaches: Classics, Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022) (10 ECTS)}

_{A course for history students, students of historical literature and classics; showcasing different in the humanities (e.g., memory studies, sociology of art and literature; the cognitive turn, the spatial turn; includes writing an essay and presenting ‘an object/building in context’ during an excursion to Rome, or Maastricht)}

BA, MA, REMA THESIS SUPERVISION AND TUTORING

_{I supervise a substantial number of BA, MA, Re-MA theses and tutorials on Greek and Latin and Reception topics each year.}

_{In 2020, Selina Bick, whose thesis on the reception of Euripides’ Medea in the context of the Greek Debt Crisis ( Recycling Medea )’ I supervised, was shortlisted for the CRASIS BA-thesis prize. In 2022 Marilin Jonkman, whose thesis on Theocritus Idyll 18 I supervised won second prize in the CRASIS BA-thesis prizes.in  2023 Folkert de Bruin whose thesis on Polyxena I supervised won first prize in the CRASIS BA-thesis prizes for Classics.}