Ruth Clemens is lectures in Anglophone literature, film, and culture at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. She specialises in critical approaches in multidisciplinary modern and contemporary literary studies. Her research expertise includes modernism, book history and materiality, the posthuman in medical and environmental humanities, experimental forms, and multilingual writing.

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Fields of interest

• Modernism 
• Posthumanism 
• Paratext and materiality
• Experimental writing
• Translation and multilingualism
• Postcolonial and queer feminist approaches

Curriculum Vitae

Education 
2015–2020 PhD, University of Leeds, UK
2014–2015 MA Comparative Literature, University College London, UK
2009–2012 BA (Hons) English Literature, University of Salford, UK

Employment 
2022–present Leiden University, Lecturer in Modern Anglophone Literature, Film, and Culture 
2022–2023 University of Glasgow, Postdoctoral Research Assistant 
2019–2023 Utrecht University, Lecturer in Literary Studies 
2017–2018 Utrecht University, Visiting Research Fellow
2017–2017 University of Leeds, Visiting Lecturer in Comparative Literature 
2016–2017 Leeds Trinity University, Visiting Lecturer in English Literature

Publications