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Alisa van de Haar

University lecturer

Name
Dr. A.D.M. van de Haar
Telephone
071 5272179
E-mail
a.d.m.van.de.haar@hum.leidenuniv.nl
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0142-3833

Alisa van de Haar is Assistant Professor in historical French Literature. Her research focuses on historical multilingualism, the history of the language sector, and the intersection between language and migration. From 2022 to 2026, she conducted a Dutch Research Council Veni project titled ‘Languages as Lifelines: The Multilingual Coping Strategies of Refugees from the Early Modern Low Countries’. From 2026 to 2031, Alisa leads the ERC Starting Grant Project ‘LangPro: Professional Opportunities in the Early Modern Language Sector (1550-1650)’ and the Dutch Research Council Vidi project ‘Leveraging Language, Proclaiming Power: Linguistic Politics in Early Colonial North America’.

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Fields of interest

  • Historical multilingualism
  • History of the language sector
  • French language and culture
  • Languages of the early modern Low Countries
  • History of language education

Grants and awards

ERC Starting Grant for the research project ‘LangPro: Professional Opportunities in the Early Modern Language Sector (1550-1650)’, 2026-2031.
NWO Vidi grant for the research project ‘Leveraging Language, Proclaiming Power: Linguistic Politics in Early Colonial North America’, 2026-2031.
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Early Career Award, 2023.
NWO Veni grant for the research project ‘Languages as Lifelines: The Multilingual Coping Strategies of Refugees from the Early Modern Low Countries’, 2022-2026.
NWO PhDs in the Humanities grant for the doctoral research project ‘A Tale of Two Tongues: The Interplay of Dutch and French in the Literary Culture of the Low Countries, 1550-1600’, 2013-2017.

Curriculum vitae

2019 – present Assistant Professor, Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
2018 – 2019 Curator of the Special Collections department of the University of Groningen Library.
2017  – 2019 Lecturer, Bachelor Dutch Language and Culture & Honours College, University of Groningen.
2017 – 2018 Lecturer, Bachelor French Language and Culture, Leiden University.
2013 – 2017 PhD candidate, University of Groningen, Department of Historical Dutch Literature.

Visiting scholarships
KU Leuven, Lectio visiting fellow, 2023.
Macquarie University Sydney, visiting fellow, 2023.
Université de Lille, visiting researcher in the ERC project ‘AGRELITA, The Reception of Ancient Greece in Premodern French Literature and Illustrations of Manuscripts and Printed Books (1320–1550)’, 2022.
Universität Erfurt, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, Herzog Ernst fellow, 2018.
University of Cambridge, King’s College, visiting graduate student, funded by COST Action IS1301, ‘New Communities of Interpretation’, 2015.

Selected publications

A. van de Haar, The Golden Mean of Languages: Forging Dutch and French in the Early Modern Low Countries (1540-1620), Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Boston & Leiden, Brill, 2019. 

A. van de Haar, ‘Selling French: Netherlandish Migrants as Linguistic Brokers in Early Modern Germany (1560-1600)’, in: Renaissance Quarterly, 78, 1 (2025), 95-128.

A. van de Haar, ‘The Linguistic Coping Strategies of Three Netherlanders in England: Jan van der Noot, Lucas d’Heere, and Johannes Radermacher’, in: Early Modern Low Countries, 5, 2 (2021), 192-215. Read here

A. van de Haar & D. Schoenaers (eds.), Francophone Literature in the Low Countries, 1200-1600, special issue of Queeste, 28, 1 (2021). Read here

University lecturer

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society

Work address

Reuvens
Reuvensplaats 3-4
2311 BE Leiden

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