Modern and Contemporary Studies: Culture and Transformation

Research Programme of the Modern and Contemporary Studies

• Members
• Sponsored research projects
• Joint research
• Serial Publications
• Text-edition projects

Research programme (pdf)

Members

In the research programme of this cluster more than sixty full professors, readers, lecturers, postdocs and PhD-students participate, from ten departments:

Art History
E.C.H. de Bruyn, PhD
W.J.L.M. van Damme, PhD
Professor T.M. Eliëns
M.H. Groot, PhD
M.M.A. Hendriksen, PhD-student 
H.M. Huistra, MSc, PhD-student
H.G. Knoeff, PhD
A.M. Koch, PhD
M.A. Leigh, PhD
L.M. Mendoza Straffon, PhD-student 
Professor S.C. Meiselas 
J.G. Roding, PhD (also cluster Medieval and Early Modern Studies)
J. Sun, M.A., guest PhD-student
L. Tilanus, PhD
H.L. Westgeest, PhD
Professor C.J.M. Zijlmans
Professor R. Zwijnenberg

Book and Digital Media Studies
B.P.M. Dongelmans, PhD (also Dutch Language and Culture Department)
Professor A.H. van der Weel

Dutch Language and Culture
B.P.M. Dongelmans, PhD (also Book and Digital Media Studies Department)
S.V Fagel, PhD-student
A.A.P. Francken, PhD
Professor J.L. Goedegebuure
R.A.M. Honings, PhD-student
Professor H. Hulshof
Professor W.L.H. van Lierop-Debrauwer
P.A.W. van Zonneveld, PhD

Dutch Studies
Professor O.J. Praamstra 

English Language and Culture
A. Aziz, M.A., guest PhD-student
J.C. Kardux, PhD
E.J. van Leeuwen, PhD
Professor P.T.M.G. Liebregts
M. Newton, PhD 
S.A. Polak, PhD-student

French Language and Culture
E. Daneshvar, PhD-student
J.M.M. Houppermans, PhD
S.H. Kuo, guest Phd-student 
A.E. Schulte Nordholt, PhD

German Language and Culture 
Professor A. Visser

Languages and Cultures of Africa
D. Merolla, PhD

Latin American Studies
A.I. Churampi Ramírez, PhD
G. Inzaurralde, PhD 
R.J.M. Ploegmakers, PhD
Professor L.M.L. Rodríguez
N. Timmer, PhD

Literary Studies
Professor E.J. van Alphen
I. Bakutyte, guest PhD-student 
Y. Bian, guest PhD-student
M. Boletsi, PhD
E. Chen, M.A., guest PhD-student
Y. Horsman PhD
J.J.M. Houwen, PhD-student
I. Hoving PhD
M.J.A. Kasten, PhD
Professor F.W.A. Korsten
C.S. Lee, guest PhD-student
E. Minnaard, PhD
M. Tariq, guest PhD-student
P.W.J. Verstraten, PhD

Slavic Languages and Cultures
O.F. Boele, PhD
J.L.J. Scheijen, PhD

Sponsored research projects

The following externally financed research projects participate in the research-cluster Culture and Transformation:


Cultures of Collecting
Project manager: prof.dr. R. Zwijnenberg (NWO-Vrije Competitie - 2008-2012)

Transcultural Creation in the French-Persian Literature after the Eighties
Project manager: E. Daneshvar MA (NWO-Mozaiek - 2008-2012)

Precarity and Post-autonomia: the Global Heritage Project manager: prof.dr. F.W.A. Korsten (NWO-Internationalisering - 2010-2013)

Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Connecting Diasporas and Local Auduences Project manager: dr. D. Merolla (NWO-Internationalisering - 2010-2013)

The Intimate Voice of the Russian Avant-garde: Adapting the Aesthetic Self and the Rise of Socialist Realism Project manager: dr. J.L.J. Scheijen (NWO-Veni - 2011-2014)

Joint research

The LUICD or individual members work in conjunction with other researchers at Leiden and with research-partners outside Leiden, both nationally and internationally. Apart from the numerous partnerships with colleagues in the Netherlands, the following institutes are involved.

Leiden researchers not connected with the LUICD

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Leiden study groups

• Platform for Postcolonial Readings for Junior Researchers in Fields of Postcolonial and Intercultural Criticism (contact: I Hoving PhD; in cooperation with the Department of Literature at the University of Antwerp)
• Study Group Book Studies (contact: Professor P.G. Hoftijzer)
• Study Group Convention and Originality (contact: J.M.M. Houppermans, PhD)

• Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL) (Digital Library of Dutch Literature); www.dbnl.nl

• Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) http://www.hum.uva.nl/asca
• Research School Art History http://www.onderzoekschoolkunstgeschiedenis.nl/
• Research School Literary Studies http://www.let.uu.nl/osl
• Judaic Studies Society (A.E. Schulte Nordholt, PhD)

• Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, Department of Comparative Literature and
  Department of Art History (Van Alphen)
• Hanover, Dartmouth College (Van Alphen)
• New York, Cornell University (Van Alphen)
• Santa Monica, Getty Research Institute (Van Alphen)
• Johannesburg, University of Witwatersrand (Van Alphen)
• Sydney, University of New South Wales (Van Alphen)
• Universität Bremen, Università di Ferrara, Université de Liège, University of Warwick: Project Europäische Mythen und nationale Identität (Visser)

Serial Publications

A number of LUICD-researchers are involved in serial publications started at Leiden:

• Bert van Selm-lezing: Editors: professor W van Anrooij, B.P.M. Dongelmans (Phd) (Leiden, Stichting Neerlandistiek)
• Thamyris/Intersecting (Amsterdam, Rodopi). Editorial Board: Professor E.J. van Alphen, I. Hoving, PhD a.o.
• Reeks Stichting Neerlandistiek Leiden. Editorial Board: B.P.M. Dongelmans, PhD, K.J.J. Korevaart, PhD.

Text-edition projects

• Vrouwen in de vormgeving van Nederland 1880-1940 / Women Designers in The Netherlands 1880-1940 (M.H. Groot, PhD)