English Literature and Culture (MA)
Meet our staff
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Prof.dr. N.N.W. Akkerman
Nadine Akkerman, FRHistS, MAE is a Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture at the Centre for the Arts in Society. She leads a large-scale project on early modern manuscript culture and the mediation of authorship. To distinguish between authorial and scribal voices the project analyses 3 distinct manuscript types: Historical letters, Legal documents, and Literary works. In doing so it addresses 3 questions: who were these scribes; what was their role or function, and where did their influence end and their employer’s begin? View her full profile here.
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Dr. M.H. Porck
Thijs Porck teaches Old English, Middle English, Tolkien and Medieval Studies at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. He is a cultural historian of early medieval England, with a background in medieval history as well as English language and literature. The common strand in his research is gaining an understanding of Anglo-Saxon culture and of how modern generations have interacted with this early medieval heritage, in both scholarship and popular culture. View his full profile here.
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Dr. E.J. van Leeuwen
Evert Jan van Leeuwen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. His fields of interest includes Fantastic fictions from the eighteenth century to the present: gothic, horror, supernatural and science fiction and Countercultures and critical theories from the Romantic Era to the present. View his full profile here.
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Prof.dr. P.T.M.G. Liebregts
Peter Liebregts is a Professor of Modern Literatures in English at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. In his research on the Nachleben of classical culture in Modern(ist)/contemporary English-language literatures/cultures, he emphasizes the intertextual and appropriating aspects of the relationship between the source and its user while placing them in a wider historical-cultural context. View his full profile here.
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Dr. S.A. Polak
Sara Polak is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her long-term research focus is on the cultural and media politics of image-making of US presidents, and on presidents and their use of media in a broad sense. Currently she is working on a book about playful politics and Donald Trump’s use of Twitter, as part of the NWO project Playing Politics: Media Platforms Making Worlds. View her full profile here.
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Dr. J.J. Morgan-Owens Ph.D.
Jessie Morgan-Owens is a university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. View her full page here.