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. 

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.

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.

Dr. M.S. Newton

Michael Newton a cultural historian, film critic, literary critic, editor and essayist, with a strong interest in our engagement with representations of the state of nature and with ‘the fantastic’, whether in art or in life. View his full profile here.

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.

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.

Dr. K. Rolfe Ph.D.

Kirsty Rolfe is a university lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her research focuses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature, in particular news, political writing, and gender. She has published articles on plague and on military news reports, and is currently working on a book about news, providence, and emotion in the Thirty Years’ War. She is also interested in scholarly editing, and is currently editing Thomas Nashe’s 'The Anatomie of Absurditie' (1589) for Oxford University Press. View her full profile here.