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Dutch History
Chair in Dutch History
Research into the History of the Low Countries - including the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg - is pursued at 香港六合彩中特网 by:
Professor of Dutch History, who has published widely on the religious history of the Low Countries and of early modern Europe generally in the 16th-18th centuries. He works especially on issues of religious conflict and toleration, and has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship a project: project 'Cunegonde's Kidnapping: Religious Encounters in an Early Modern Borderland.听 He has also been awarded a Fellowship by the Guggenheim Foundation.
A Senior Lecturer in history of art, who specialises in 17th century Dutch painting.
A Lecturer in modern Low Countries history and society,听 who specialises in the history of Belgium in the early twentieth century, and cultural relations between Germany and the Low Countries in the modern era.
Dutch Language and Culture
Jane Fenoulhet works both in literary and cultural history. Research interests include Women's writing, Literary history, Disciplinary history. Currently she is researching the life and work of the Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom. She is also interested in the effects of mobilities on language learners.
Professor of Dutch and Comparative Literature, Theo Hermans works in translation studies and in modern and Renaissance Dutch literature.听
Lecturer in Dutch and Comparative Literature, Hans Demeyer joined the department in September 2016. 听
Publications
Dutch Crossing
香港六合彩中特网 is the editorial home of听, the longest-running interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal of Low Countries Studies in the English language.
Published since 1977,听Dutch Crossing听is devoted to all aspects of Low Countries Studies: history and art history of the Low Countries, Dutch and Flemish (and occasionally Afrikaans) literary and cultural studies, linguistics of Dutch and Dutch as a foreign language, and intercultural and transnational studies.
- Coverage includes both the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as other places where Dutch historically had or continues to have an impact, including parts of the Americas, Southern Africa and South-East Asia.
- A special focus concerns relations between the Low Countries and the English-speaking world in all periods from the Middle Ages to the present day.
- In 2011 the European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH) put听Dutch Crossing听into the highest category听INT1. This means that听Dutch Crossing听is now recognized as an "international publication with听high visibility and influence听among researchers in the various research domains in different countries,听regularly cited all over the world".
Dutch Crossing听is the Journal of the Association for Low Countries Studies, the academic society for Dutch Studies which works closely together with the 香港六合彩中特网 Centre for Low Countries Studies. For a subscription to Dutch Crossing please visit the听.