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NameFunctionDutch Studies expertise
Henriette LouwerseSenior Lecturer in Dutch; DirectorModern Dutch literature, especially migration and literature, issues of multiculturalism, and women´s writing in Dutch
Henk de BergProfessor of GermanIntellectual history and social thought
Filip De CeusterTutor for Dutch Language and Dutch StudiesThe modern city, the countryside, interwar literature, the Flemish Movement, authorial self-fashioning and posture.
Anna GeurtsHonorary Research Fellow and tutor in Dutch language and Dutch and Flemish history 18th-20th century cultural and social history
Simon MiddletonSenior Lecturer in HistoryThe New Netherlands
Anthony MiltonProfessor of Early Modern HistoryAnglo-Dutch relations, anti-catholicism, the Synod of Dort
Bob MooreProfessor of 20th Century European HistoryThe history of the Netherlands, especially the Netherlands in the Second World War
Michael PerraudinEmeritus Professor of German19th and 20th century Dutch literature
Duco van OostrumSenior Lecturer in EnglishSports writing and autobiography. Anton de Kom, representation of slavery and slave narratives in English and Dutch
Cydney SturgessPostgraduate Research StudentLiterary constructions of gender and sexuality and 20th century Dutch history
Renee TimmersSenior Lecturer in MusicDutch musical culture
Eddy VerbaanHonorary Research FellowEarly modern intellectual history, the history of science and scholarship, urban history, historiography, and memory studies
Roel VismansEmeritus Professor in Dutch StudiesDutch language and linguistics, especially pragmatics and sociolinguistics
Jan WoudstraReader in Landscape History and TheoryDutch landscape

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