Evert Jan van Leeuwen
University Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. E.J. van Leeuwen
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3949
- e.j.van.leeuwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4704-3492
Evert Jan van Leeuwen is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
Fields of interest
- Fantastic fictions from the eighteenth century to the present: gothic, horror, supernatural and science fiction
- Countercultures and critical theories from the Romantic Era to the present
Favourite authors: Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charlotte Riddell, William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood; H.P. Lovecraft; Shirley Jackson, Flannery O’Connor, Joyce Carol Oates, and Stephen King.
Favourite filmmakers: Val Guest, Robert Wise, Roger Corman, George Romero, John Carpenter, and Alex Cox.
Research
- The history, development and intertextual relations of gothic, horror, supernatural and science fiction from the British Isles, the Low Countries and North America.
Curriculum Vitae
- 2000-2001 MPhil in the Gothic Imagination (University of Stirling, Scotland)
- 2000-2006 PhD candidate (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
- 2007- Lecturer (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
Teaching activities
- BA courses in English-language literature and culture from the eighteenth century to the present
- MA courses on various topics within my field of interest for the Literature in Society and English tracks of the MA Literary Studies.
University Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Moderne Engelstalige letterkunde
- Leeuwen E.J. van (18 May 2022), Dracula: Dagonderwerp. Interviewed by Lucien Geelhoed for Seutelstad.nl (Radio Weetlust). [interview].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (27 October 2021), We willen meer, sneller en beter, maar wat zijn de consequenties?: De ware boodschap van reclames. Interviewed by Lisanne Bos. [interview].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (21 January 2021), Hoe werkt een sonnet?. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (14 October 2021), De hoofdpersoon in horror is het spook van de moderne consumptiemaatschappij. Interviewed by Laura van der Hauw. [interview].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (1 November 2021), Bovennatuurlijke gerechtigheid. Interviewed by Frank van der Meijden for SF Terra: 36-37. [interview].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (19 April 2021), "The House as Gothic Locus". Interviewed by Mónica Fernández Jiménez . [interview].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (26 August 2020), Radio Horzelnest - "Aflevering 4: Nathaniel Hawthorne". Interviewed by Peeters Norbert. [interview].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (23 December 2020), Radio Horzelnest - Aflevering 13: Edgar Allan Poe. Interviewed by Norbert Peeters. [interview].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (24 February 2020), Schotland: de Romantiek van het Noorden (HSVL event). [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (31 August 2019), Terrible Trees and Other Demonic Plant Life, Guest Lecture at Albion Weekend. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (14 May 2019), "We're Not Gonna Take It" - Theodore Roszak, de professor van de tegencultuur. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (2 June 2018), Nature and Horror (flits college/mini lecture): Museumnacht Leiden. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (12 March 2018), Onder invloed van De Quincey - Edgar Allan Poe’s nachtmerrie esthetica in woord en beeld; Studium Generale: The Dope Show. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (10 October 2018), Frankenstein: Icoon van de tegencultuur; Studium Generale: Frankenstein, op weg naar een nieuwe mens. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (31 October 2018), Invasie van de Plastic Soep Monsters: Horror, Science Fiction en het Ecologisch Bewustzijn van 1972 tot de Apocalypse. A.S.V. Prometheus. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (30 April 2018), "Haunted Houses: Paranormal Vehicles for Personality Growth"; at 7th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity: Stories of the Supernatural: Encounters with the Other Side in Literary and Everyday Narratives. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (1 April 2018), Het rendez-vous met Evert Jan van Leeuwen. Interviewed by Colin Jean-Paul for EdgarAllanPoe.nl. [interview].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (26 October 2017), Het spookt hier!. Interviewed by Bongers Vincent for Leids Universitair Weekblad Mare. [interview].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (28 October 2017), 'Jane Austen’s ‘Horrid Novels': Northanger Abbey and the Sociology of Popular Culture [Leiden University English Department Alumni Day, October 28 2017]. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (2017), Tales from the Panic Room: Adolescent Horror versus the Moral Majority [Halloween Lecture, Albion Association , Leiden University, October 2017]. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (28 October 2017), Verborgen Gebreken: Het spookhuis als metafoor voor een verrotte samenleving [Naturalis After Dark Halloween Edition, Leiden, October 2017]. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (2016), “Ghost Fiction/Ghost Fact; or, what makes a story (just) a story?” Pre-Union Day BA English Language and Culture. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (2015), Horror and the Supernatural interview by Linda Boutellier in The Angler 11.2 (December 2015). . [interview].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (2015), “The Ugly Christmas Sweater” lecture for Albion Association Christmas Fundraiser, Leiden University. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (2015), Interviewed with A.A. Foster and D. Smakman for High School students' Project On English Accents and Cultures; Visser 't Hooft Lyceum, Leiden. . [interview].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (2014), “De bovennatuurlijke verbeelding.” S.V.Prometheus, Leiden. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (2014), “Poe as a Brand.” OSL Workshop Literary Celebrity at UVA. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (2014), “Edgar Allan Poe: Master of Horror” Albion Association Halloween Lecture, Leiden University. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. (2013), “The Night Horror Came Home: Sex, Suspense and the Supernatural in John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978).” Albion Association Halloween Lecture, Leiden University. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. (2013), “Paranormal Activities: Supernatural Fiction in the Classroom”. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. (2013), “The Ageless Attraction of the Haunted-House Formula.”Propedeuse Ceremony Lecture BA English Department, Leiden Univeristy. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (31 October 2013), Mijn eerste thema is spookhuizen. Interviewed by Borrel Daan for De Groene Amsterdammer, special. [interview].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (2012), “The Gothic Novel and Medievalism” Guest Lecture invited by prof.dr. Wim van Anrooij, Leiden University, NL. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (2 November 2010), "Rights for the Civil Dead" Guest Lecture at Radboud University Nijmegen. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (10 April 2008), Monster Workshop at "Days of Evil" Stanislas College Delft. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (26 November 2008), A Sense of Wonder: Dissecting “the heart of science fiction” Guest Lecture for Albion. [lecture].
- Leeuwen E.J. van (19 March 2008), "Making Monsters" guest lecture at Insula College Dordrecht. [lecture].