Joep Leerssen

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Joep Leerssen was born in Leiden in 1955, studied in Aachen, Dublin and Toronto, and took his PhD cum laude in 1986 at the University of Utrecht. Since 1991 he has held the Chair of Modern European Literature at the Universiteit van Amsterdam and have co-directed its programme in European Studies. He was also in charge of launching the University’s faculty-wide Research Master’s Programme in Literary Studies. Additionally he served from 1996 until 2006 as director of the Huizinga Institute (the Dutch national Research Institute for Cultural History), which co-ordinates PhD tuition and senior research initiatives in Cultural History with participants from all Dutch universities. His training has been in Comparative Literature, English, and Anglo-Irish Studies. His work moves in four contiguous fields: Irish intercultural history, the theory of national stereotyping; the history of romantic nationalism in Europe; the history of the humanities. It has appeared in monographs, edited volumes, and as articles in journals such as the Journal of the History of Ideas, Poetics Today, the Modern Language Review, the Modern Language Quarterly and Nations and Nationalism. It has won awards and repeated grants from various funding authorities. He is Honorary Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, and a member of various learned bodies and committees; he has served on various juries for academic awards and academic review boards; he has advised, or refereed for, various research funding bodi

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