Frans Willem Korsten
Professor Literature, Culture and Law
- Name
- Prof.dr. F.W.A. Korsten
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2196
- f.w.a.korsten@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9133-6807
Frans Willem Korsten is a Professor Literature, Culture and Law at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
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Fields of interest
- Rhetoric (classical and modern)
- Literature and Politics
- Politico-cultural organization of Europe
- Dutch Baroque
- Literature and Law
- Theatricality and Dramatization
- Humanities approach to urbanism
Research
Initially, my research focused on ideology criticism, rhetoric and politics. After completing my PhD thesis, in which I combined narratology with argumentation theory in an analysis of cultural critical texts, I wrote a new introduction to literary studies: Lessons in Literature, in which I combined a selection of historical periods in European literature with twelve different approaches to literature and with short analytical explorations. This book helped me to define my interest in major historical and cultural lines, nodes and recurring problems in the politico-cultural organization of Europe. One such a problem was (and is) the conceptualization of sovereignty, that I traced in plays by the seventeenth century baroque playwright Joost van den Vondel. This part of my research resulted in Vondel belicht: voorstellingen van soevereiniteit (Hilversum: Verloren, 2006). It was thoroughly rewritten in English: Sovereignty as inviolability: Vondel;s Theatrical Explorations in the Dutch republic (Hilversum: Verloren, 2009). Together with Jan Bloemendal I was happy to realize a successful open access, edited volume: Joost van den Vondel: Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age (Leiden: Brill, 2012). The research into the baroque found a concluding study in A Dutch Republican Baroque: Theatricality, Dramatization, Moment and Event (Amsterdam: AUP, 2017). Meanwhile, back in 2007, I started a new line of research, with All Inclusive: The poetic and capitalism. That line of research developed into an interest in the field of literature and law. In this context I published Art as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption (Oxford: Hart, 2021). The pivotal points of connection between these forms of research are: the Dutch Republic as a proto-capitalist society; Spinoza and his distinction between power and the potential, on the basis of which he was reread in radical Italian political theories from the seventies and eighties, and by Gilles Deleuze and Rosi Braidotti; the issue of theatricality and dramatization in relation to the political and law; the relations between literature, art, sovereignty and justice; the conceptualization of history in relation to politics.
Currently I finished a co-authored monograph together with Inger Leemans, Kornee van der Haven and Karel Vanhaesebrouck that is the end result of an NWO-FWO project on representations of violence in the 17t century Baroque: Imagineering Violence: Affective Economies in the Dutch Republic (Cambridge UP Elements series, 2023). I am happy to be part of a an NWO-project that studies contemporary politics in its relation to play (together with Sybille Lammes, Frank Chouraqui, Alex Gekker, Bram Ieven and Sara Polak). Two other projects are related to new courses I developed for new programs of Leiden University in The Hague. The course for International Studies led to a book by Amsterdam University Press: Cultural Interactions: Conflict and Cooperation (2022). The second project was developed for the program of Urban Studies: ‘Imagining the City: Imaginations-Cancellations’. This is a book in progress, written together with Anthony T. Albright, to be published in 2023-2024.
What happened in the process
- At Utrecht University I first studied Dutch Arts and Letters, and then Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, from 1977 to 1984.
- I wrote my PhD thesis, The Wisdom Brokers: Narrative's Interaction with Arguments in Cultural Critical Texts, at the University of Amsterdam, with Mieke Bal and Frans van Eemeren as supervisors.
- Since 2007 I hold the chair by special appointment in ‘Literature and Society’ at the Erasmus University Rotterdam – with the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication up until 2020, with the Erasmus School of Philosophy since then. Since January 2023 I am professor ‘Literature, Culture, and Law’ in Leiden.
Committees and other panels
- I worked for the Dutch national Council for Culture as chairman for the section Letters, and was a member of the Rotterdam Council for Culture.
- I was several times a member of assessment committees for the Norwegian Research Council and for The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NWO.
- I was a member of an editorial board (Boom-The Hague Publishers) that was concerned with a new series of introductions into the philosophy of science, for which I edited four volumes.
- For a couple of years I was member of the editorial board of the open access Journal of Dutch Literature (AUP).
- I was a member of the Supervisory Board of art exhibition and post-academic research center BAK in Utrecht, between 2017 and December 2022. (https://www.bakonline.org/)
- Since 2001, I am a member of is the Annie Romein-Verschoor committee that organizes a Leiden University lecture each year on International Women’s day (https://evenementen.leidenuniv.nl/lezingen/romein-verschoorlezing/)
Teaching
- I have been working at the department of Film and Literary Studies of Leiden University since 1998; since 2018 I came to be connected rather to the International Studies and Urban Studies programs in The Hague.
- From 2013 to 2020 I worked for the Master of Education in Arts program of the Piet Zwart Institute (the Ma program of the Willem de Kooning Academy).
- With colleagues dr Claudia Bouteligier, dr. Tessa de Zeeuw and dr. Yasco Horsman, we developed a minor in The Hague called ‘Questions of Justice in Law, Literature and the Arts’ which is either a 30 ects or15 ects minor that started in the fall of 2022.
Administration
- From January 2010 to September 2013, I was Director of Education of LUCAS, the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
Grants
- I was responsible for the NWO internationalization program Post/autonomia and precarity – the global heritage (2010-2014), together with Monica Jansen (UU) and Joost de Bloois (UvA)
- With Kornee van der Haven, Inger Leemans, Karel Vanhaesebrouck, we got ITEMP funded by NWO/FWO: Imagineering Techniques in the Early Modern Period (2015-2019); a project that allowed for two finished PhD projects.
- I was happy to support and participate in the Hera funded project Night Spaces: Migration, Culture and Integration in Europe (NITE), under supervision of Sara Brandellero and in cooperation with Kamila Krakowska. The program ran from 2019 to 2022, with one PhD project.
- Under the supervision of Sybille Lammes and together with Frank Chouraqui, Alex Gekker, Bram Ieven and Sara Polak we started out on an NWO-project entitled Play and Politics, from 2021 to 2025, with one PhD project.
Focus
- At the moment, I work together with artists Edward Clydesdale Thomson and Sjoerd Westbroek, make music with my old friends from the band Zatikmaarinhoogcatharijne (https://www.zatikmaarinhoogcatharijne.nl/), and am learning to do some woodwork. Professionally speaking, I am focusing on teaching, reading, writing, and on the work of my PhD students. I still like travelling, but listening to, or living with, the ecological environment can well be done within a restricted area. I consider giving lectures to be an activity that can be successful sometimes, though I’d rather talk with people instead of ‘to’.
Finished PhD's
As co-promotor
- June 2001, Leiden: Aldin Kaizilege Mutembei (supervisor prof. dr. Mineke Schipper), Poetry and AIDS in Tanzania : changing metaphors and metonymies in Haya oral traditions
As supervisor
- Helmer Helmers, cum laude (co-promotor: dr. Ton Hoenselaars), The Royalist Republic : literature, politics and religion in the Anglo-Dutch public sphere, 1639-1660; June 2011, Leiden
- Tammy Lynn Castelein (together with prof. dr. Hent de Vries), No More Heroes: Heidegger Between the Wars; May 2012, Amsterdam
- Marie-Anne Coebergh van der Marck (co-promotor Janneke Lam), In de ban van het incestverbod: analyse van een historische omslag in de verbeelding van erotiek tussen broer en zuster; December 2012, Leiden
- Aamir Aziz (co promotor dr. Yasco Horsman) Theatre as Truth Practice: Arthur Miller’s The Crucible – a Play Waiting for the Occasion; December 2014, Leiden
- Adam Hall, (with prof. dr. Jürgen Pieters and prof. dr. Sandro Jung), Renaissance Metonymy and Shakespeare’s Hamlet; December 2014, Gent
- Berrie Vugts (co-promotor dr. Yasco Horsman), The Case against Animal Rights: A Literary Intervention; March 2015, Leiden
- Marrigje Paijmans (with prof. dr. Lia van Gemert and co-promotor dr. Frans Blom – UvA), Dichter bij de waarheid: Parrhesia en dramatisering in het werk van Joost van den Vondel; November 2015, Amsterdam
- Sara Polak (with prof. dr. Peter Liebregts), “This is Roosevelt’s world”: FDR as a Cultural Icon in American Memory; December 2015, Leiden
- Cui Chen (co-promotor: dr. Maria Boletsi), The Savage as Living Ghost: Representations of Native Americans and Scholarly Failures to Dismantle the Notion of the Savage; March 2017, Leiden
- Frank van Doeselaar (with prof. dr. Yra van Dijk), Bewegend lezen: Voorstel tot een cinematografische leeshouding; September 2017, Leiden
- Bart Vieveen, Leiden (co-promotor dr. Peter Verstraten), Kortsluiting in het symbolische: Hamlet, Katadreuffe en Van Egters verkennen de grenzen van het bedreigde Vader-land; May 2019, Leiden
- Mark O’Donnell (co-promotores dr. Jan-Frans van Dijkhuizen and dr. Madeleine Kasten), ‘A glimmering light’: Reading, Writing, Mysticism and Presence in the Religious Verse of John Donne; November 2019, Leiden
- Riccardo Giacconi, Leiden (PhDarts; with prof. dr. Janneke Wesseling & co-promotor dr. Yasco Horsman) The Variational Mode: Three cases about documents, artworks and animation; December 2019, Leiden
- Michel van Duijnen (with prof. dr. Inger Leemans, VU), A VIOLENT IMAGINATION: Printed images of violence in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1700; December 2019, Amsterdam
- Kai-wen Chiu (with prof. dr. Marcel Cobussen and co-promotor dr. Yasco Horsman), Phónè and the Political Potential of Metal Music: A Scholarly Intervention; May 20, 2020, Leiden
- Joost Haan (with prof. dr. Michel Ferrari), Migraine as Text - Text as Migraine: Diagnosis and Literature; October 22, 2020 Leiden
- Gerlov van Engelenhoven, summa cum laude (with prof. dr. Greta Olson, Giessen), “Whereof one cannot speak…”: Deceptive voices and agentive silences in the articulation of identities in the Moluccan postcolonial migrant community in the Netherlands; December 11, 2020, Justus Liebig Universität, Giessen
- Tessa de Zeeuw (co-promotor dr. Yasco Horsman), Postdramatic Legal Theatres: Space, Body, Media and Genre; June 2, 2021, Leiden.
- Esther Edelmann (co-promotor dr. Nanne Temmer), Inverted Worlds and Belated Baroques; May 18, 2021, Leiden.
- Jack Segbars, (PhDarts, with prof. dr. Janneke Wesseling and co-promotor Joost de Bloois), The Emergent Artistic Object in the Postconceptual Condition; November 18, 2021, Leiden.
- Seger Kersbergen (co-promotors: dr Sara Brandellero and dr. Kamila Krakowska), Nightlife in the Cabo Verdean Diaspora: The Case of Rotterdam City; February 16, 2023, Leiden.
- Tine Nederveen (co-promotor: dr. Liesbeth Minnaard), Taalbenadering en taalhouding in werk van Jacob Israël de Haan: zuiverheid, gekunsteldheid, dubbelzinnigheid, expressiviteit; April 4, 2023, Leiden.
To the reading committee
- Anna Krýsová (co-promotor dr Esther Op de Beek), Beyond postmodernism: oscillation, affect and reparative reading in contemporary Dutch literature - to the reading committee.
- Ana Paula Cordoza de Souza (co-promotor dr. Sara Brandellero), Pedagogy in Literary Postcards: João do Rio in São Paulo (1905-1915) – to the Reading committee
Almost finished
- Zeynep Anli (co-promotor Liesbeth Minnaard) on the relation between 20th century feminism and utopian or dystopian fiction
- Thomas Bragdon (co-promotor dr. Wout Cornelisse – Radboud University) on the cultural representation of political rights of refugees in the context of the work of Hannah Arendt
- Robin Oomkes (co-promotor Sara Polak) on the cultural implications of a Fremdkörper statue of Fridjof in Norway, installed by emperor Wilhelm II
PhD work in progress
- Anthony T. Albright (co-promotor dr. Yasco Horsman), ‘A Media Archeology of the High-Touch Surface (1800–Present)’
- Marijn van Dijk (with prof. Nadine Akkermans), on modes of address and tone in Baroque texts, images, and glass decorations.
- Bram Eenink (together with dr. Sara Polak), ‘It Will Happen Here: Hope and Despair in Second American Civil War Fiction’
- Aida Gholami (together with Sara Polak) on the use of memes in the context of the Iranian uprising in 2022-2023.
- Amarantha Goes (co-promotor Robin van den Akker) on the representation of pregnancy on the interstice of the carrying subject and the subject being carried.
- Nike van Helden (co-promotor dr. Nanne Temmer) on censorship and self-censorship in Cuban literature since the sixties
- Andries Hiskes (co-promotor dr. Jules Sturm), ‘Against staring: Disability and its affective affordances – deformity, decay, disruption, distortion’
- Maaike Hommes (with prof. dr. Greta Olson, Univ. Giessen), Nervous Routes: Tracing Explicability Between Medical Knowledge and Bodily Experience.
- Çağlar Köseoğlu (co-promotor Robin van den Akker, EUR), on the pedagogic requirements for a decolonized academic curriculum.
- Marcos Neto de Cordova (co-promotores dr. Yasco Horsman and dr. Sara Brandellero), ‘A (Dis)oriented Aesthetics: A Schizoanalysis of the Intersection of Gender, Race and Sexuality in Brazilian Art, Culture and Literature since the 1990s’
- Angel Perazzetta (co-promotor dr. Daný van Dam), ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Moral Dimensions of Victorian Trash Between Value, Values and Worth’
- Mitchell van Vuuren (together with prof. dr. Minna Valjakka), ‘Understanding digital forms of ideological suture through the influence of the People’s Republic of China on Video-on-Demand platform users’
PhD committees
Member of more than fifty promotion committees in the last 10 years at the Universities of Leiden, Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Gent, Giessen, Louvain la Neuve
Teaching
- Courses on all levels of the BA in the Faculty of Humanities Leiden, including the core curriculum ‘Introduction Literary Studies’ (150-250 students); core course ‘Cultural Interactions’ with International Studies (500 students, The Hague); core course ‘Imagining the city’ with Urban Studies (60 students, The Hague);
- BA course for international students ‘Literature, art and capitalism’ (25 students, ESHCC, Rotterdam)
- Courses at the Erasmus University College on ‘Literature and Politics’ and ‘Analyzing Contemporary Literature’
- courses on MA-level and in Research Master, on literature/art and justice; on cultural history and cultural studies; on philosophical approaches to art and literature; on didactic art and literature; on baroque theatricality; on culture, representation and mediation.
- winter- and summer schools on art/literature and justice
- Organizer of Honours College for the Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines (2008-2013)
Conferences, symposiums, seminars
- Together with dr. Bram Ieven (UU): Waiting for the Political Moment (Rotterdam, June 2010) conference website;
- Together with dr. Joost de Bloois (UvA) and dr. Monica Jansen (UU): ‘What is post/autonomia today?’; first conference in a set of three; followed by two conferences in the years 2012-2013 organized by international partners: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ann Arbor (Michigan), and Paris Nanterre.
- Together with Yasco Horsman (UL); Legal bodies: Corpus /Persona /Communitas (Leiden, May 2014); https://hum.leiden.edu/lucas/news-events/legal-bodies-corpus-persona-communitas.html
- Together with Joost de Bloois, symposium ‘Decoloniality, Modernity and the Anthropological Perspective’, June 25, 2015, Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies
- Together with prof. dr. Jeanne Gaakeer, conference Issues of fact, Rotterdam, September 2015
Prizes, awards
- Three time nominee for best teacher of the University of Leiden
- Best supervisor of the Netherlands 2015
Professor Literature, Culture and Law
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Literatuurwetenschap
- Chouraqui F. & Korsten F.W.A. (2024), Using Spielraum for a normative definition of politics: Obama’s play politics and Trump’s asceticism, Human Studies 42(1): .
- Korsten F.W.A., Leemans I., Haven C. van der & Vanhaesebrouck K. (2023), Marketing violence: the affective economy of violent imageries in the Dutch Republic. Cambridge Elements on Histories of Emotions and the Senses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2023), Populists in court: wager, match, and chance considered as generic forms of playful legalities, Law, Culture and the Humanities : 1-17.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2023), The judiciary’s theatrical Achilles’ heel: playing the fool (pre-RAF members) versus acting in bad faith (Alex Jones), Documenta 41(2): 207-227 (8).
- Korsten F.W.A. (2023), Besmirching judges, undermining authority: populists playing with feelings of law and justice. In: Keiser T., Olson G. & Reimer F. (Eds.), Feelings about law/justice. Rechtsgefühle : the relevance of affect to the development of law in pluralistic legal cultures: Nomos. 191-214.
- Korsten F.W.A. & McGourty L.H.G. (2023), Civic Babylonian pride in Vondel's Mars Tamed: baroque allegory performing contradiction in the Dutch Republic, Early Modern Low Countries 7(1): 54-81.
- Oosten R.M.R. van Korsten F.W.A. Otte A.F. (30 November 2023), Moet de universiteit wel zaken doen met twijfelzaaiers over het klimaat?. Leids Universitair Weekblad Mare.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2022), ‘Broodjeszaak in de woestijn of collectief leven: charisma en de mogelijkheid van gemeenschappelijkheid’. In: Leven B. & Bluijs S. (Eds.), Vluchtlijnen van de poëzie: over het werk van Jeroen Mettes. SEL-Reeks no. 16. Gent: Academia Press. 53-68.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2022), Cultural interactions: conflict and cooperation. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2022), Vermogen tot verbinden. Literatuurwetenschap en herstelrecht. In: Claessen J. & Hoek A. van (Eds.), Door de ogen van... Herstelrecht bezien vanuit verschillende disciplines. Den Haag: Boom Criminologie. 435-452.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2022), The not-yet. In: Kramer F. & Wesseling J. (Eds.), Critical making. Amsterdam: Valiz.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2022), Criticality. In: Kramer F. & Wesseling J. (Eds.), Critical making. Amsterdam: Valiz.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2022), Vermogen tot verbinden: literatuurwetenschap en herstelrecht. In: Classen J. & Hoek A. van (Eds.), Herstelrecht door de ogen van...: reflecties op restorative justice vanuit 27 verschillende perspectieven. Den Haag: Boom Criminologie.
- Haven C. van der, Leemans I., Vanhaesebrouck K., Duijnen M. van, De Bruyn Y. & Korsten F.W.A. (2021), ‘Imagineering, or what Images do to People: The Spectacle of Violence in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic’, Cultural History 10(1): 1-30.
- Aziz A. & Korsten F.W. (2021), Theatre as Intervention: Responsibility/Irresponsibility or Literature's Classical Role in Democracy and Miller's The Crucible, English Studies 102(8): 1142-1150.
- Aziz A. & Korsten F.W. (2021), Actualising History Responsibilities with Regard to the Future in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Critical Survey 33(3-4): 79-92.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2021), Art as an Interface of Law and Justice – Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption. Oxford: Hart Law Publishers.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2021), ‘Geen ideologie maar corpologie: Het Indische werk van Adriaan van Dis’. In: Bel J., Honings R.A.M. & Veer C. van ’t (Eds.), De postkoloniale spiegel. De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 433-446.
- Haan J. & Korsten F.W.A. (2020), The status of documents: medical files and literary genres – the case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Commentary on Franssen, Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology 27(4): 419-421.
- Dijk M. van & Korsten F.W.A. (2020), Violence heard: the ekphrasis of sound from thundering sea battles to thick silence, Journal of the Northern Renaissance 11: 1-23.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2020), Historical prefigurations of vitriol: communities, constituencies and plutocratic insurgency. In: Polak S. & Trottier D. (Eds.), Violence and Trolling on Social Media: History, Affect, and Effects of Online Vitriol. MediaMatters. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 87-108.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2019), Taal als wapen: de urgentie voor de Neerlandistiek, De Nederlandse Boekengids 3(6): 27-32.
- Anonymous (9 April 2019), Engels is de Wetenschapstaal, Nederlands de vertaling [Engels is de Wetenschapstaal, Nederlands de vertaling] (translation: Ieven B.K. & Korsten F.W.A.). NRC.nl.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2019), Theatraliteit en de wording van rechtspraak: Milo Rau's Congo-tribuaal en twee vormen van jurisgenesis. In: Elion-Valter C., Klink B. van & Taekema S. (Eds.), Wegen der Vrijheid. Liber amoricum voor Willem Witteveen. The Hague: Boom Juridische Uitgevers. 295-304.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2019) Depressie doorvoelen, depressie begrijpen, depressie ontsnappen: de rollen van literatuur. Review of: Meer A.-F van der (2018), Ladders naar het licht: Depressie en intertekstualiteit in hedendaagse autobiografische literatuur. Utrecht: Eburon. Vooys: tijdschrift voor letteren 37(2): 72-76.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2018), 'Obstinaat recht: het chiasme van politiek en recht in relatie tot empathie en geweld - George Eliot's Daniel Deronda'. In: Bouteligier Claudia & Slootweg Timo (Eds.), Het Empathisch Supplement in Recht en Literatuur. Kritische Studies in Recht en Literatuur no. 3. Oud- Turnhout / ’s- Hertogenbosch: Gompel&Svacina. 81-102.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2018), De politieke taak van Nederlandse letterkunde. Van natiestaat tot urbaniciteit – van taal als ui naar taal als strijdtoneel, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 134(2): 171-187.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2018), Het poëtische en proto-traumatische in het verlies van een kind: Van stoïsche beslotenheid naar mediale exuberantie. In: Honings R., Marion O. van & Vergeer T. (Eds.), Van Constantijntje tot Tonio: Het dode kind in de Nederlandse literatuur. Hilversum: Verloren. 251-260.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2018), Lyrical and Theatrical Apostrophe, from Performing Actor to Textual Self. In: Haven C. van der & Pieters J. (Eds.), Lyric Address in Dutch Literature, 1250-1800. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 181-194.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2017), Justice. In: Bloois J. de, De Cauwer S. & Masschelein A. (Eds.), 50 Key Terms in Contemporary Cultural Theory. Kalmthout: Pelckmans Pro. 63-69.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2017), Theatrical Torture versus Dramatic Cruelty: Subjection through Representation or Praxis. In: Haesebrouck K. van, Haven C. van der & Mactosay Th. (Eds.), The Hurt(ful) Body. Performing and Beholding Pain, 1600-1800. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 223-247.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2017), Öffentlichkeit and Law’s Behind the Scenes: Theatrical and Dramatic Appearance in European and US American Criminal Law, German Law Review 18(2): 399-421.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2017), To resist and disappear: the song and the puppet, or how to think the inactive in works by Riccardo Giaconni. In: Giacconi Riccardo (Ed.), The Variational Status. Milan: Humboldt Books.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2017), A Dutch Republican Baroque: Theatricality, Dramatization, Moment and Event. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press / Chicago University Press.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2016), Poet/healer/judge: Literature as cicatrix – the case of Maria Dermoût’. In: Grave Jaap, Honings Rick & Noak Bettina (Eds.), Illness and Literature in the Low Contries: From the Middle Ages until the 21st Century. Göttingen:: V&R Unipres. 181-198.
- Korsten F.W.A. & Zeeuw T.L. de (2016), Ethics of Becoming as a Frame for Ethics: Theatricality and Balance in Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover, Pólemos 10(1): 249-266.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2016), The comedic sublime in a dynamic of worlds: the work of Frans Hals in a Dutch Baroque, Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art 8(2): 1-24.
- Horsman Y. & Korsten F.W.A. (2016), Introduction: legal bodies: corpus/persona/communitas, Law and Literature 28(3): 277-285.
- Horsman Y. & Korsten F.W. (Eds.) (2016), Legal Bodie: Corpus / Persona / Communitas. Law and Literature. New York: Routledge.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2016), What Roman Paradigm for the Dutch Republic?: Baroque Tragedies and Ambiguities Concerning Dominium and Torture. In: Bloemendal Jan & Smith Nigel (Eds.), Politics and Aesthetics in European Baroque Tragedy. Leiden: Brill no. 5. Leiden: Brill. pp. 43-74.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2015), Unreasonability: Style, and Pretiosity. In: Luisetti F., Pickles J. & Kaiser W. (Eds.), The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 192-201.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2015), Animistische geschiedenis in een veranderd landschap. In: Honings R. & Zonneveld P. van (Eds.), Een tint van het Indische Oosten: reizen in Insulinde 1800-1950. Hilversum: Verloren. 259-268.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2015), Poet/healer/judge: Literature as cicatrix – the case of Maria Dermoût. In: Grave J., Honings R. & Noak B. (Eds.), Illness and Literature in the Low Countries. From the Middle Ages until the 21th CenturyIllness and Literature. Göttingen: V&R Unipress.
- Korsten F.W.A. & Zeeuw T.L. de (2015), Towards a New Judicial Scene for Humans and Animals: Two Modes of Hypocrisy, Law and Literature 27(1): 23-47.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2015), De instemmende knik van het oordeel: Prince’s Purple Rain. In: Jong J. de, Pieper C. & Rademaker A. (Eds.), Beïnvloeden met emoties. Pathos en retorica. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2015), Grondslagen, situaties en houdingen, Vooys: tijdschrift voor letteren 33(2): .
- Rovers Daniël, Joostens Piet, Keizer Frank, Korsten F.W.A. & Winkler Marieke (Eds.) (2014), N30.nl .
- Korsten F.W.A. (2014), Verdrongen waarheden en literatuur als aanval op de samenleving - W.F. Hermans, Ik heb altijd gelijk. In: Honings Rick, Jensen Lotte & Marion Olga van (Eds.), Schokkende boeken. Nijmegen: Verloren. 189-196.
- Korsten F.W.A., Bloois Joost de & Jansen Monica (2014), From Autonomism to Post-Autonomia: A Political Anthropology Beyond Self-Valorisation and Mediation Phobia, Rethinking Marxism 26(2): 163-177.
- Korsten F.W.A. & Carpenter Bennett (2014), Corporate personhood as inhuman: the paradigm of asbestos cases and Dracula, Quaderni - communication, technologies, pouvoir Quaderni 84(La radicalité ouvrière en mots et en actes): 13-26.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2014), Enhancing the body’s powers to act: Bringing art (back) down to earth. In: Dolphijn Rick & Braidotti Rosi (Eds.), The Deleuzian Century: Art, Activism, Society. Amsterdam: Rodopi.. Faux Titre no. 400. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 145-167.
- Korsten F.W.A. & Kwa Chunglin (Eds.) (2014), Kernthema’s in de wetenschapsfilosofie. Den Haag: Boom.
- Korsten F.W.A. & Bloois Joost de (2014), ‘Qu’aura été la Précarité ? Futurs possibles d’un Concept’. In: Contarini Sylvia & Marsi Luca (Eds.), Précariat : pour une critique de la société de la précarité. Paris: Presses Universitaires Paris X.
- Korsten F.W.A. & Paul H.J. (Eds.) (2014), Als het verleden trekt - Kernthema’s in de geschiedwetenschap. Den Haag: Boom.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2013), De intensiteit van wat ‘raakt’: collectiviteit en de simultane werking van tekst en intertekst in Tonnus Oosterhoff. In: Dijk Y. van (Ed.), Draden in het donker: Intertekstualiteit in theorie en praktijk. Nijmegen: Vantilt. 307-324.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2013), Revolution Fabrication Convulsion: Bringing Art (Back) Down to Earth, Frame. Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap 25(2): .
- Korsten F.W.A. (2013), Rehearsal in Occurrent Art. In: De la Torre Blanca (Ed.), Of More than One Voice. Vitoria-Gasteiz: Artium. 89-143.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2012), Close reading - The David Plays. In: Bloemendal Jan & Korsten Frans-Willem (Eds.), Joost van den Vondel: Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age. Leiden: Brill. 427-445.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2012), The Invention of the Moment: Telescope, Literalness and Baroque Theatricality of the World’. In: Leuker M. (Ed.), Visualität in der niederländischen Literatur und Kunst des 17. Jahrhunderts. Münster/New York/München/Berlin: Waxmann. 261-276.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2012), 'Simulation'. In: Ritzer George (Ed.), Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization. Hoboken: Wiley. 1-4.
- Korsten F.W.A. & Ieven B.K. (2012), 'Sovereignty. Ritzer George (Ed.), Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization. . Hoboken: 'Wiley. 1-7.
- Bal M.G., Bleeker Maaike, Carpenter Bennett & Korsten F.W.A. (2012), Cultural Analysis – The Joseph Plays. In: Bloemendal Jan & Korsten Frans-Willem (Eds.), Joost van den Vondel. Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age. Leiden: Brill.. 317-340.
- Korsten F.W.A. & Bloemendal J. (Eds.) (2012), Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679: Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age. Leiden: Brill.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2012), Apostrophe, witnessing, and its essentially theatrical modes of address: Maria Dermôut on Pattimura and Kara Walker on the New Orleans flooding, AI & Society: Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Communication 27(1): 13-23.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2012), ‘Mundus Dramaticus: A School Drama and Dramatization – Franciscus van den Enden’. In: Bloemendal Jan, Eversmann Peter G.F. & Strietman Elsa (Eds.), Drama, Performance and Debate: Theatre and Public Opinion in the Early Modern Period. Leiden: Brill. 311-333.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2012), ‘Refusing to live in a nice world: minimal conditions for the collective’. Bekan Maja & Kromhout Irene (Eds.), Our House in the Middle of the Street: 10 jaar kunsthuis SYB. . Beesterzwaag: Stichting SYB. 139-142.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2012), Vondel’s Dramas: Ways of Relating Past and Present. In: Bloemendal Jan & Korsten Frans-Willem (Eds.), Joost van den Vondel: Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age. Leiden: Brill. 23-50.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2012), Interruption, or the Moment of Parabasis: A Short Play on Edward C. Thomson's "Selbstzweck". In: Slater Marnie & Thomson Edward (Eds.), As If an Entrance is Over There. Eindhoven: Lecturis. 66-77.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2011), Een stad zoekt haar grens. Levy L. (Ed.), Het beste van de Unie in debat. . Rotterdam: De Unie. 66-79.
- Korsten F.W.A., Rovers Daniel & Joostens Piet (Eds.) (2011), Jeroen Mettes, Weerstandsbeleid. Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek.
- Korsten F.W.A. (13 October 2011), Panfleto sobre la literatura como arma en un siglo de corrupción. [web article].
- Korsten F.W.A. (2011), Pamphlet on literature as a weapon in a century of corruption. [other].
- Korsten F.W.A. (2011), Meer dan van iedereen: minimale condities voor het collectief. Bekkenkamp J. & Verheijen J. (Eds.), Onszelf voorbij: Over de grenzen van verbondenheid. . Almere: Pathenon. 84-105.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2011), De fetisj van diversiteit – de Nederlandse samenleving en de diffuse politiek. In: Gera Judit (Ed.), Diversiteit. Budapest: Pro nederlandistica. 15-46.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2011), Facing it: sovereignty and how to live with theft and violence in the law – the case of Karel ende Elegast, Journal of Dutch Literature 1(2): 57-78.
- Korsten F.W.A., Rovers Daniel & Joostens Piet (Eds.) (2011), Jeroen Mettes, N30+. Amsterdam: Wereldbibliotheek.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2010), ‘But did they not, with it, burn the excrements as well?’: Macropedius’s Experimental Plays, or Humanism as Avant-garde. In: , The Latin Playwright Georgius Macropedius (1487-1558) in European Contexts. European medieval drama. Turnhout: Brepols. 117-136.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2010), Action, What Action? Vondel’s Prefaces as Political Acts (1612-1668). Bossier Philiep & Scheffer Rolien (Eds.), Soglie testuali. Funzioni del paratesto nel secondo Cinquecento e oltre.. Textual Thresholds. Rome: Vecchiarelli, Manziana. 201-222.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2010), God as a Keystone to the System of Commonplaces – The Case of Joost van den Vondel’s Plays. In: Banks K. & Bossier P. (Eds.), Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period, vol. II: The Consolidation of God-Given Power.. Leuven: Peeters. 1-23.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2010), Moments of Indecision, Sovereign Possibilities – Notes on the Tableau Vivant. In: Otten Willemien, Vanderjagt Arjo & Vries Hent de (Eds.), How the West Was Won. Essays on Literary Imagination, the Canon, and the Christian Middle Ages for Burcht Pranger. Leiden: Brill. 17-38.
- Korsten F.W.A. (Ed.) (2010), Joost de Bloois en Esther Peeren, Kernthema's in de literatuur- en cultuurwetenschap. Den Haag: Boom-Den Haag.
- Korsten F.W.A. (Ed.) (2010), Vincent Meelberg, Kernthema's in het muziekonderzoek. Den Haag: Boom-Den Haag.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2009), ‘Everything is Gonna Be’: Tragedy and the Script of History’. Bangma Anke (Ed.), Katarina Zdjelar, But If You Take My Voice, What Will Be Left To Me? The Serbian Pavillion at the 53rd Biennale di Venezia. 137-152.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2009), ‘Glorious Fiction Revisited: Katarina Zdjelar’s Don’t Do It Wrong', http://katarinazdjelar.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/glorious-fiction1.pdf. .
- Korsten F.W.A. (2009), Bodies in Pain and the Transcendental Organization of History in Joost van den Vondel. In: Dijkhuizen J.F. van & Enenkel K. (Eds.), The Sense of Suffering. Leiden: Brill. 385-410.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2009), ‘The Irreconcilability of Hypocrisy and Sincerity’. In: Alphen Ernst van, Bal Mieke & Smith Carel (Eds.), The Rhetoric of Sincerity.. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 60-79.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2009), Een rel of een gebeurtenis: wijkt de academie?. . nY: Tijdschrift voor literatuur, kritiek en amusement 413-416.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2009), Sovereignty as Inviolability: Vondel’s Theatrical Explorations in the Dutch Republic. Hilversum: Verloren.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2008), ‘Battling for the Soul of the City’, Fritz Haeg’s Animal Estates, Field Guide. . Utrecht: CASCO. 8-11.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2008), ‘Kernen van weerstand en activiteit: vmbo’ers in onderwijs en bibliotheek’. Didaktief 6. Pp. 13-20, Didaktief (6): 13-20.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2008), De bereidheid tot risico - Joost van den Vondel over souvereiniteit en tolerantie. In: Erp S. van (Ed.), Vrijheid in verdeeldheid: Geschiedenis en actualiteit van religieuze tolerantie. Nijmegen: Valkhof Pers. 83-103.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2008), ‘Literatuur in een vrije stad’. In: Lugtenberg G. (Ed.), Opstellen aan Opstelten. Rotterdam: Erasmus Podium. Rotterdam: Erasmus Podium. 38-41.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2008) Review. Review of: Calis Piet (2008), Vondel: het verhaal van zijn leven no. 4. Amsterdam: Meulenhoff. Ágora : Estudos Clássicos em Debate 51: 174-176.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2008), ‘“Werd dan niet de ontlasting meegebraden?” Macropedius’ experimenteerdrama’, Macropedius in Europese context. . Amersfoort: Florivallis. 75-94.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2008), ‘Geweld uit ongeduld: soeverein zoekt onvermogen’, Cahier EAJ. . Den Haag: Ministerie van Justitie. 15-22.
- Korsten F.W.A. (Ed.) (2008), Peter Verstraten, Kernthema's in de filmwetenschap. Den Haag: Boom-Den Haag.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2007), ‘Zee als het onmenselijke.’. In: Kruk Remke & Houppermans Sjef (Eds.), De zee, de zee… in literaturen wereldwijd. Amsterdam: Rozenberg. 81-96.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2007), ‘Geen paniek! Het klassieke als redelijk alternatief in Joost van den Vondels Leeuwendalers uit 1647’. Jan Bloemendal & A. Agnes Sneller (red.),. In: Bloemendal Jan & Sneller Agnes (Eds.), Bronnen van inspiratie: recepties van de klassieken in de vroegmoderne Nederlanden in muziek, literatuur en beeldende kunst. Hilversum: Verloren. 119-132.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2007), ‘De stad spreekt: de elocutio van een plein’. In: Korevaart Korrie, Jansen Henrike & Jong Jaap de (Eds.), Het woud van de retorica. Leiden: SNL. 127-138.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2007) Review - ‘Grenzend aan magie'. Review of: (2007), Opgefokte taal. Een politiek van de performatief no. 4. Amsterdam: Parrésia. Krisis: tijdschrift voor actuele filosofie 8: 91-98.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2007), ‘Loss of Face or the Next Sentence.’. In: Zdjelar Katarina & Ridgway Renée (Eds.), Another Publication. Rotterdam: Revolver. 13-17.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2006), ‘Derrida’s uitvlucht: God of context’, Filosofie Magazine 16(4): 19-24.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2006), ‘De waarde van hypocrisie: Vondels spel met politiek en religie in Lucifer, Salmoneus en Faëton’, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 122(2): 97-116.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2006), Regels en ontregeling: Literatuur en vijf soorten kennis. Hilberdink Koen & Wagenaar Suzanne (Eds.), Leescultuur onder vuur. 28 oktober 2005: bijeenkomst georganiseerd door de KNAW en de Stichting Lezen over leescultuur. Amsterdam: KNAW. 27-34.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2006), Vondel belicht: voorstellingen van soevereiniteit. Hilversum: Verloren.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2005), ‘Soeverein als aangeroepene: Vondels Gysbreght van Aemstel’, Ethiek & Maatschappij 8(1): 98-115.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2005), ‘Basisles van Frans-Willem Korsten – voor 5 vwo’, Handboek Literatuuronderwijs. . Amsterdam: Stichting Bulkboek. 25-27.
- Korsten F.W.A. & Jong C. de (2005), Vincent Mahieu, Tjoek, Lexicon van literaire werken 65: 1-11.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2005), Lessen in literatuur -- herziene en verbeterde druk. Nijmegen: Vantilt.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2005), Twee nieuwe Vondels, of te oude? Overwegingen aangaande Vondel en diens taal naar aanleiding van twee uitgaven in de Delta-reeks, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 121(4): 349-355.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2005), Meditatie, (zelf)destructie en trance: het verschil tussen jazz en pop in de Nederlandse literatuur. Steenmeijer M. (Ed.), Pop in literatuur. . Utrecht: IJzer. 167-184.
- Korsten F.W.A. & Jong C. de (2005), ‘Literaire wegen naar werkelijkheid: realisme, modernisme en postmodernisme', Aansluitingsmodule Literatuurwetenschap. Aansluitingsprogramma vwo-wo, Universiteit Leiden. .
- Korsten F.W.A. (2005), Ogen gevuld met leegte. Kruk R. & Houppermans S. (Eds.), Een vis in een fles raki: Literatuur en Drank in verschillende Culturen. . Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers. 5-16.
- Bloois J. de, Houppermans J.M.M. & Korsten F.W.A. (Eds.) (2004), Discern(e)ments: Deleuzian Aesthetics. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
- Alphen E.J. van & Korsten F.W.A. (Eds.) (2004), . Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2004), Theorie doen -- aan de hand van Joost van den Vondels werk, Vooys: tijdschrift voor letteren 3-4(22): 81-91.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2004), Space and the Sense of History: Gilles Deleuze Meets Baroque Playwright Joopt van den Vondel. Bloois J. de, Houppermans J.M.M. & Korsten F.W.A. (Eds.), Discern(e)ments: Deleuzian Aesthetics. . Amsterdam: Rodopi. 277-296.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2004) 'Spreek slechts met wijze mensen': Verlichter Francois Poulain over de gelijkheid van man en vrouw. Review of: Stuurman Siep (2003), Francois Poulain de la Barre and the Invention of Modern Equality no. 1. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Leids Universitair Weekblad Mare 4: 6-6.
- Alphen E.J. van, Hoving I. & Korsten F.W.A. (Eds.) (2004), Africa and Its Significant Others: Forty Years of Intercultural Entanglement. New York: Rodopi.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2004), De dood van Jezus Christus (bis) of de opgeloste auteur, Parmentier 1(13): .
- Korsten F.W.A. (2004) De pijn van het isolement en haar verlichting. Review of: Lam J. (2002), Whose pain? Childhood, trauma. imagination no. 5. Amsterdam: ASCA. Krisis: tijdschrift voor actuele filosofie 1.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2004), Making History (In-)Cohere: An African and Africanism in Joost van den Vondel's 'Palamedes'. Hoving I., Alphen E.J. van & Korsten F.W.A. (Eds.), Thamyris/Intersecting: Africa and Its Significant Others: Forty Years of Cultural Entanglement. afscheid Prof. dr. Mineke Schipper. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 107-120.
- Alphen E.J. van & Korsten F.W.A. (2004), Hoe verder? Toekomstperspectieven in de Studie van de Nederlandse Letterkunde, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 4(120): 289-297.
- Korsten F.W.A. & Jong C. de (2004), Maria Dermoût, Donker van uiterlijk, Lexicon van literaire werken 63. uitgave augustus 2004. Groningen: Wolters Noordhof. 1-12.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2004), Jattende patriarchen aan het eind van hun latijn, Parmentier 3(13): 92-103.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2003), Iedere vijg kan een mening hebben: het verschil tussen meningsvorming en oordeelsvorming. Smink F. (Ed.), Handboek literatuuronderwjs 2003-2004. Dag van het literatuuronderwijs. Amsterdam: Bulkboek. 15-18.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2002), Legitimatie, allianties, natievorming en mannenliefde: de retorische werking van verhalen en argumenten in Joost van den Vondels Gebroeders, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 118(1): 73-92.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2002), Lessen in literatuur. Nijmegen: Vantilt.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2002), 'Maak een verleden dat verdwijnt'. Het latere werk van Elisabeth Eybers. Francken E. & Santen A. van (Eds.), Pinguïns en pikkewijne. Opstellen over Afrikaanse en Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde. . Leiden: SNL. 109-122.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2001), Is Bess a Bike? Gender, Capitalism and the Politics of the BwO in Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves. Pisters Patricia (Ed.), Gilles Deleuze: Micro-Politics of Audiovisual Culture. . Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2001) Cultural Visions: Essays in the History of Culture. Review of: Gold Penny S. (2001), Cultural Visions: Essays in the History of Culture no. 2. Atlanta/Amsterdam: Rodopi. Arcadia: Internationale Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft 36: 24-30.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2001) Comparativity as Theory: Or, the Missed Opportunity of Practice. Review of: Zima Peter V. (2001), Vergleichende Wissenschaften: Interdisziplinarität und Interkulturalität in den Komparatistieken no. 1. Tubingen: Gunter Narr. Arcadia: Internationale Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft 36: 209-215.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2000), Een reactie op 'de motivatie van het offer van Ifis' van Jan Konst, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 2: 186-171.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2000), Sasotr(l)t: How the empirical study of literature started with the wrong name and how it did not truly substantiate what it promised, Frame. Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap 2-3: 28-42.
- Korsten F.W.A. (2000), Meisje dood Man: Een (post)moderne lezing van Vincent Mahieus "Tjoek", Nederlandse Letterkunde 2: 154-172.
- Korsten F.W.A. (1999), Foucault's Rhetorical Consciousness and The Possibilites of Acting upon a Regime of Truth. Neubauer J. (Ed.), Cultural History after Foucault. . New York: Aldine de Gruyter. 55-62.
- Korsten F.W.A. (1999), Waartoe hij zijn dochter slachtte: Enargeia in een modern retorische benadering van Vondels Jeptha, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 4: 315-333.
- Korsten F.W.A. (20 February 1998), The Wisdom Brokers: Narrative's Interaction with Arguments in Cultural Critical Texts (Dissertatie, Leiden University). Amsterdam: ASCA Press. Supervisor(s): Bal M.G. & Eemeren F.H. van.
- Korsten F.W.A. (1997), Poet, Critic, Sociologist: How Autobiographcal Subject and Self May Provide Epistemic Ground, Frame. Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap 2: 49-62.
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