English Literature and Culture (MA)
Meet our staff
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. J.F. van Dijkhuizen
Jan Frans van Dijkhuizen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. His research focuses primarily on the interaction between literature and religious culture in early modern England (approximately 1500–1700), with a special interest in the Reformation and the (religious) history of the human body. See 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.
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.
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.
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 publishes on women’s history, diplomacy, and masques. View her 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. View her full profile here.
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. His fields of interest are Modernism and the Nachleben of classical culture in modern English-language literatures and cultures. View his full profile here.
Dr. J.F. van Dijkhuizen
Jan van Dijkhuizen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. His research focuses primarily on the interaction between literature and religious culture in early modern England (approximately 1500–1700), with a special interest in the Reformation and the (religious) history of the human body. View his full profile here.
Dr. M.S. Newton
Michael Newton is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. He is 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.