Liesbeth Minnaard
University Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. E. Minnaard
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2358
- e.minnaard@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-5456-0295
Liesbeth Minnaard is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
More information about Liesbeth Minnaard
PhD candidates
Research
Since September 2007 I have been working as an assistant professor (UD) at the Film and Literary Studies department of Leiden University. Aside teaching a broad variety of “general” courses in the field of comparative literature and literary theory, I am particularly committed to the Interculturality track within the Literary Studies curriculum.
My main fields of expertise are interculturality in literature, postcolonial theory, and issues of gender and sexuality. My research particularly focuses on cultural effects of migration and globalisation, exoticism in literature, representations of “the national”, and intersectionality.
Education
In 1998 I obtained a MA degree in cultural studies (specialisations Modern Western Literature and Gender Studies) from Utrecht University. Between 1998 and 2002 I worked for several NGO’s (Project Aisa, TransAct, Vrouwenalliantie) that were engaged in drawing the attention to intersections of gender and ethnicity in the socio-political field. From 2000 to 2002 I carried out the project “Kleur in het curriculum” for the Centre of Expertise GEM (Gender, Ethnicity, Multiculturality) at Utrecht University.
In 2002 I received two research grants from the DAAD (Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst) and the Catharine van Tussenbroek Fund that enabled me to start my PhD research on imaginations of national identity in German and Dutch literature of migration in Berlin and at the Viadrina University in Frankfurt/Oder. From 2003 to 2006 I received a DFG-scholarship for participation in the interdisciplinary, DFG-funded graduate school “Identity and Difference. Gender and Interculturality from the 18th to the 21st century” at Trier University. From 2003 to 2006 I participated in Mieke Bal’s “Theory Seminar” at the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis. In 2006 I received a grant to participate in the Spring Term Graduate Programme of Cornell University (upon invitation by Leslie A. Adelson). In 2007 I obtained my PhD degree in from Trier University. My dissertation was published with Amsterdam University Press in 2008.
Key publications
I have published widely on Dutch and German literature of migration, as well as on exoticism in literature. I am the author of the monograph New Germans, New Dutch. Literary Interventions (Amsterdam University Press, 2008) and co-editor of the volumes Ethnizität und Geschlecht. (Post-)Koloniale Verhandlungen in Geschichte, Kunst und Medien (Böhlau, 2005), Literature, Language and Multiculturality in Scandinavia and the Low Countries (with Wolfgang Behschnitt and Sarah De Mul, Rodopi 2013), Beyond the Myth of Monolingualism and Nach der einen Sprache: literarische Mehrsprachigkeit? (both with Till Dembeck, KultuRRevolution, 2013 and Rodopi 2014). Most recently I published De lichtheid van literatuur. Engagement in de multiculturele samenleving, together with Maria Boletsi, Sarah De Mul, and Isabel Hoving (Acco, 2015).
International activities
- Partner in the CORE-project ‘The Construction of Identity in Multilingual Literature: A Comparison of Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands’ funded by the FNR Luxembourg. Other partners are Luxembourg University (project leader, Prof. Dr. Georg Mein and Dr. Till Dembeck), Leuven University (Dr. Anke Gilleir) and University Duisburg-Essen (Prof. Dr. Rolf Parr and Dr. Thomas Ernst).
- Co-organizer of the bi-annual Flemish-Dutch Platform for Postcolonial Readings (Leiden University /Antwerp University): https://hum.leiden.edu/lucas/pocoplatform.
- Member in the German Centre for Postcolonial and Gender Studies (Trier University)
- Member of the transnational network (Post-) Colonialism Across Europe (chair: Prof. Dr. Dirk Göttsche, Nottingham University).
Teaching activities
Over the last years I have been teaching a broad variety of courses on all levels, ranging from
- BA1 courses like Representatie: Cultuur en Betekenis and Inleiding Comparative Studies,
- BA2 courses like Inleiding Interculturele Literatuurbenaderingen and Symbolisme, Historische Avant-garde en Modernisme,
- BA3 courses like Globalisering en postkoloniale literatuurtheorie and Postmodernisme,
- Minor courses Gender en Seksualiteit
- MA courses like Marvellous Worlds: The Literary Fantastic and Literary Theory: Barthes, Bakhtin, Foucault to
- ResMA courses like Approaches to Literature and Interculturality: The Key Concepts.
At the German Department of Trier University I taught courses on
- literature of migration ( “Ausländer
– Türken – Kanaken?” Kulturelle Identität in der Literatur von Deutschen türkischer Herkunft, WS 04/05),
- the imagination of Berlin in 20th century German literature ( Berlinin der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts, SoSe 06), and
- non-canonical German literature ( Literatur vom Rande der Gesellschaft (nach 1945), WS 06/07).
Curriculum Vitae
2007 – present
Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at Leiden University
2004 – 2007
Occasional Lecturer at the German Department of Trier University.
2003 – 2007
PhD project within the DFG-funded Graduate School “Identity and Difference. Gender Constructions and Interculturality (18th – 21st century)” at Trier University. Supervision: Prof. Dr. Herbert Uerlings and Prof. Dr. Ernst van Alphen Scholarships from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Trier University Research Council
2006
Research and participation in the Graduate Programme of the German Studies Department of Cornell University, Ithaca NY, USA. Supervision: Prof. Dr. Leslie Adelson Grant (tuition fee): Cornell University
2003 – 2006
Participation as affiliated PhD-student in the “Theory Seminar” at ASCA, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam. Supervision: Prof. Dr. Mieke Bal
2002/2003
Preparatory research for PhD-project in Berlin. Participation as affiliated PhD-student in the DFG Graduate School “Rhetorik – Repräsentation – Wissen” at the Heinrich-von-Kleist-Institut für Literatur und Politik at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder. Scholarships from the Doctor Catharine van Tussenbroek Fund and the Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst (DAAD)
2000 – 2002
Project manager ‘Colour in the Curriculum’ at the Centre of Expertise GEM (Gender, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism), Utrecht University. Supervision: Prof. Dr. Gloria Wekker
2001
NOISE European Summer School in Women’s Studies from Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives at Complutense University Madrid. Theme: ‘Diasporic Identities and Medi@ted Cultures: Gender, Power, Representations’
1992 – 1998 (leave 1997)
M.A. in “Algemene Letteren” (Culture studies) at Utrecht University. Specializations: Gender Studies and Modern Western Literature. Supervision: Prof. Dr. Rosemarie Buikema and Dr. Aleid Fokkema
1995/1996 Erasmus International Exchange: Participation in the M.A. Programme Women’s Studies at WERRC (Women’s Education, Resource and Research Centre), University College Dublin, Ireland
1986 – 1992 Secondary School, Pre-University, Goes
University Lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Literatuurwetenschap
- Minnaard L. (2023), Intersektionale Kritik avant la lettre: Eine giftige Mischung aus Race, Gender und Sexualität in Marion Bloems Geen gewoon Indisch meisje. In: Abrego V., Henke I., Kißling M., Lammer C. & Leuker M.T. (Eds.), Intersektionalität und erzählte Welten: Fachwissenschaftliche und fachdidaktische Perspektiven auf Literatur und Medien. Darmstadt: WBG Academic. 163-185.
- Minnaard L. (2023) Onverwachte constellaties, verrassende verbanden: een vernieuwende benadering van Nederlandse literatuur. Review of: Prandoni M. (2022), Essays on contemporary Dutch Literature. Migration – identity negotiation – cultural memory: Peter Lang. Internationale Neerlandistiek 61(2): 197-200.
- Minnaard E. (2021), ‘Wij doen immers niet aan ras’: Interculturaliteit, postkolonialisme en ras in de Nederlandse letterkunde, Nederlandse Letterkunde 26(2-3): 223-239.
- Minnaard E. (2021), Het meervoudige monster: Hoe Jacob Israël De Haans ‘Het monster van China’ in en voorbij hokjes denkt, Vooys: tijdschrift voor letteren 39(4): 6-15.
- Minnaard E. (2021), Een zoekende spelbreker: Marion Bloem. In: Honings R.A.M., Veer C.B. van 't & Bel J. (Eds.), De postkoloniale spiegel. De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 380-396.
- Minnaard E. (2020), “Heb je dat, betrokken blanke wereldburger?”: de vluchtelingencrisis, betrokkenheid en opportunisme in twee werken van Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 136(3): 147-163.
- Boletsi M., Houwen J.J.M. & Minnaard E. (Eds.) (2020), Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes: From Crisis to Critique. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Boletsi M. Houwen J.J.M. Minnaard E. (2020), Introduction: from crisis to critique. In: Boletsi M., Houwen J.J.M. & Minnaard E. (Eds.), Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes: From Crisis to CritiqueLanguages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes: From Crisis to Critique. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 1-24.
- Minnaard E. (2020), Lampedusa in Europe; or touching tales of vulnerability. In: Boletsi M., Houwen J.J.M. & Minnaard E. (Eds.), Languages of resistance, transformation, and futurity in Mediterranean crisis-scapes: from crisis to critique. Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 145-162.
- Wienand K. & Minnaard E. (2019), Einleitung: Positionierungen. Kritische Antworten auf die „Flüchtlingskrise“ in Kunst und Literatur, FKW: Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur 66(September): 5-16.
- Minnaard E. & Wienand K. (Eds.) (2019), FKW: Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur.
- Wienand K. & Minnaard E. (2019), Introduction: Taking Positions on the “Refugee Crisis”: Critical Responses in Art and Literature, FKW: Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur 66(September): 17-26.
- Minnaard E. (2019), “Leve de vrouw in al haar vrijheid. Rochelen is onfatsoenlijk.” Over moslims, mannelijkheid en ironie in het werk van Hafid Bouazza, Nederlandse Letterkunde 24(2): 253-270.
- Minnaard E. (2018), Oscillating between margin and centre: Dutch literature of migration. In: Sievers W. & Vlasta S. (Eds.), Immigrant and ethnic minority writers since 1945: fourteen national contexts in Europe and beyond. Leiden; Boston: Brill Rodopi. 355-387.
- Kessel L. van, Minnaard E. & Steinbock E.A. (Eds.) (2018), Dossier: Trans* Policy and Legislation in Western Europe. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Steinbock E.A., Minnaard E. & Kessel L. van (Eds.) (2018), Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies special issue Trans* Approaches, Methods, Concepts. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Steinbock E.A., Kessel L. van & Minnaard E. (2018), Editorial Introduction, Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies 20(4): 335-339.
- Minnaard L. & Houwen J. (2017), Postcolonialism. In: , 50 Terms in Contemporary Cultural Theory: Pelckmans Pro. 241-246.
- Minnaard E. (2017), Hafid Bouazza’s Crusade Against Islam in the Netherlands. Between Public Provocations and Literary Irony [Migration and Religion in European Literature, Brussels University (VUB/ULB), 16 November 2017]. .
- Minnaard E. (2017), Niederländische und flämische Literatur. In: Göttsche D., Dunker A. & Dürbeck G. (Eds.), Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. 368-374.
- Kessel L. van, Minnaard E. & Steinbock E.A. (Eds.) (2017), Trans*: Approaches, Methods, and Concepts. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Minnaard E. (2017), Testimonies of Life in Limbo: Asylum Seeking Narratives [Art & Activism: Resilience Techniques in Times of Crisis, Leiden University, 14 December 2017]. .
- Minnaard E. (2017), Lampedusa in Europe; or Touching Tales of Vulnerability [Europe in Crisis?-panel at the ACLA conference, Utrecht University, 7 July 2017]. .
- Kessel L. van, Minnaard L. & Steinbock E. (Eds.) (2017), Trans*: Approaches, Methods and Concepts. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Minnaard E. (2017), Niederlande. In: Göttsche D., Dunker A. & Dürbeck G. (Eds.), Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Literatur. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler. 414-417.
- Minnaard E. (2016), The Shaking Palsy in the Low Countries: Representations of Parkinson’s disease in Dutch and Flemish prose. In: Grave J., Honings R. & Noak B. (Eds.), Illness and Literature in the Low Countries. From the Middle Ages until the Twentieth Century. Göttingen: V&R Unipress. 231-252.
- Minnaard E. (2016), ‘Facing the Facts in Contemporary Dutch Literature. Representations of Refugees between Innumerability and Singularity,’ international workshop Refugees in Europe: A Long History of Representation, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, 12-13 May 2016. .
- Minnaard E. (2016) Migratieliteratuur als genre. Op zoek naar parallellen tussen Brits en Oostenrijks proza. Review of: Vlasta Sandra (2015), Contemporary Migration Literature in German and English. A Comparative Study. Leiden; Boston: Brill. Vooys: tijdschrift voor letteren 34(1/2): 139-142.
- Boletsi M., Mul S. de, Hoving I. & Minnaard E. (2015), De lichtheid van literatuur. Engagement in de multiculturele samenleving. Leuven, Den Haag: Acco.
- Minnaard E. (2015), ‘Diversifying the Margins. The Intricate Intersection between Postcolonial and Migration Literature in Dutch Letters,’ Interpreting Communities, University of London, 29-30 October 2015. .
- Minnaard E. (2015), Wij, zij, jullie... Over de grenzen van gastvrijheid in Elvis Peeters’ roman De ontelbaren. In: Boletsi M., Mul S. de, Hoving I. & Minnaard E. (Eds.), De lichtheid van literatuur. Engagement in de multiculturele samenleving. Leuven: Acco. 51-72.
- Minnaard E. (2014), Of a Chinese Merchant and a Chinese Monster. Functions of Exoticism in Dutch Fin-de-Siècle Literature’. In: Göttsche D. & Dunker A. (Eds.), (Post)colonialism across Europe. Transcultural History and National Memory. Bielefeld: Aisthesis. 209-230.
- Minnaard L. (2014), ‘European Postcolonialisms: Temporalities and Theories,’ workshop at NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences), Wassenaar, 15-17 October 2014. [other].
- Minnaard E. (2014), ‘Every Carpet a Flying Vehicle? Multiculturality in the Dutch Literary Field,’ European Postcolonialisms: Temporalities and Theories, NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences), Wassenaar, 15-17 October 2014. .
- Minnaard L. (2014) ‘Hybriditeit in de Nederlandse literatuurkritiek: van ‘een verschrikkelijk vonnis van veroordeeling’ tot de migrant als dansende tussenfiguur’. Review of: Leune C. (2013), Grenzen des Hybriden. Münster: Waxmann. Spiegel der Letteren 56(4): 568-570.
- Minnaard E. & Dembeck T. (Eds.) (2014), Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism. Thamyris: mythmaking from past to present no. 28. Leiden: Brill.
- Minnaard E. (2014), Review of: Meyer C., Kosmopolitische ›Germanophonie‹. Postnationale Perspektiven in der deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur. Zeitschrift für interkulturelle Germanistik : 177-180.
- Minnaard L. (2014), Between “Dutch Tolerance” and “Moroccan Normality.” Benali’s Bruiloft aan zee as Challenge to an all too “Happy Multiculturality”. In: Essed Ph. & Hoving I. (Eds.), Dutch Racism. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 239-253.
- Minnaard E. (2014), Between “Dutch Tolerance” and “Moroccan Normality.” Benali’s Bruiloft aan zee as Challenge to an all too “Happy Multiculturality”. In: Essed P. & Hoving I. (Eds.), Dutch Racism. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 239-253.
- Minnaard L. (2014), Illegitimate Love, or The Troubles of Interculturality. In: Lu J. & Alphen E. van (Eds.), Literature, Aesthetics and History. Beijing: China Social Science Press.
- Minnaard L. (2013), “Pas op, ze komen...” De uitvergroting van een publiek doemscenario in Elvis Peeters’ roman De ontelbaren, Nederlandse Letterkunde 18(1): 59-77.
- Minnaard L., Dembeck T. & Parr R. (Eds.) (2013), . KultuRRevolution.
- Minnaard L. (2013), Versuch über das Repräsentieren. Ramsey Nasr als Stadtschreiber von Antwerpen und niederländischer “dichter des vaderlands”, KultuRRevolution 65(November): 28-35.
- Behschnitt W., De Mul S. & Minnaard L. (2013), Conclusion: A Comparative View. In: Behschnitt W., De Mul S. & Minnaard L. (Eds.), Literature, Language and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries no. 71. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi. 317-338.
- Minnaard L., Behschnitt W. & De Mul S. (Eds.) (2013), Literature, Language and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries no. 71. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi.
- Minnaard L. (2013), Every Carpet a Flying Vehicle? Multiculturality in the Dutch Literary Field. In: Behschnitt W., De Mul S. & Minnaard L. (Eds.), Literature, Language and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries no. 71. Amsterdam; New York: Rodopi. 97-122.
- Minnaard L. (2013), The Postcolonial Flaneur. Ramsey Nasr’s 'Antwerpse stadsgedichten', Dutch Crossing 37(1): 79-92.
- Minnaard L. (2012), ‘Functions of Exoticism. The Figure of the Chinese in Dutch Fin-de-Siècle Literature,’ international conference (Post-) Colonialism Across Europe: Transcultural History and National Memory, Bremen University, 13-15 September 2012. .
- Minnaard L. (2012), ‘Oscillating between Margin and Centre. Dutch Literature of Migration,’ international workshop Migration and Literature: theories, approaches and readings, Vienna University, 26-28 September 2012. .
- Minnaard L. (2012), ‘About Being Representative. Ramsey Nasr’s “Antwerpse stadsgedichten”,’ international symposium Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism, Leiden University, 23-24 mei 2012. .
- Minnaard L. (2012), Transnational Contact-Narratives: Dutch Postcoloniality from a Turkish-German Viewpoint. In: , The Postcolonial Low Countries. Literature, Colonialism and Multiculturalism. Lanham: Lexington Books. 123-139.
- Minnaard L. (2012) Een verlangen om opnieuw te beginnen. Review of: Lamrabet R. (2011), De man die niet begraven wilde worden no. 2. Antwerpen: De Bezige Bij. Ágora : Estudos Clássicos em Debate 55: 153-154.
- Minnaard L. (2012), A Ghostly Presence: Colonial Memory in Contemporary Dutch Literature, Journal of Dutch Literature 3(1): 88-94.
- Minnaard L. (2012), ‘A Novel of Multicultural Downfall. Or Pushing the Rhetoric of Threat in the Debate on Migration To Its Limits,’ international conference Barbarism Revisited, Leiden University, 29 May-1 June 2012. .
- Minnaard L. (2012), ‘The Postcolonial Flaneur. Ramsey Nasr’s Antwerpse stadsgedichten,’ international ALCS Conference Low Countries, Big Cities, Sheffield University, 3-5 April 2012. .
- Minnaard L. (2011) Allochtonen in beeld. Twee bijdragen aan een andere beeldvorming. Review of: Ridder K. de & Voorst R. van (2010|2010), De witte media. Of waarom 'allochtonen' altijd slecht nieuws zijn|Jullie zijn anders als ons. Jong en allochtoon in Nederland no. 2. Leuven|Amsterdam: LannooCampus|De Bezige Bij. Ágora : Estudos Clássicos em Debate 54: 176-177.
- Minnaard L. (2011), Between Exoticism and Silence. A Comparison of First Generation Migrant Writing in Germany and the Netherlands, Arcadia: Internationale Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft 46(1): 199-208.
- Minnaard L. (2010), Moving Moroccan Memories: Hafid Bouazza’s Critical Re-Vision of Abdullah’s Feet. In: Gebauer M. & Schwarz Lausten P. (Eds.), Migration and Literature in Contemporary Europe. Munich: Martin Meidenbauer Verlag. 349-361.
- Minnaard L. (2010), The Spectacle of an Intercultural Love Affair. Exoticism in Van Deyssel's Blank en geel, Journal of Dutch Literature 1(1): 74-91.
- Minnaard L. (2009), Literarische Interventionen. Nationale Identität in der niederländischen und deutschen Migrationsliteratur. In: Mitterbauer H., Scherke K. & Millner A. (Eds.), Moderne. Kulturwissenschaftliches Jahrbuch. Migration. Innsbruck: Studienverlag. 92-103.
- Minnaard L. (2009), Bouazza's Principe van Paradoxaliteit, Spiegel der Letteren 51(2): 285-287.
- Minnaard L. (2009), Miscommunicatie na migratie. Het literaire werk van Abdelkader Benali verkent de kloof tussen de generaties, Kunsttijdschrift Vlaanderen 58(November): 286-291.
- Minnaard L. (2008), New Germans, New Dutch. Literary Interventions. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
- Minnaard L. (20 February 2007), New Germans. New Dutch: Imaginations of German and Dutch National Identity in Literature of Turkish and Moroccan Migration (Dissertatie, ., Trier University). Supervisor(s): Alphen E.J. van & Uerlings H.
- Minnaard L. (2006), De succesvolle wisselwerking tussen parodie en performance. Voorstellingen van Moreaanse mannelijkheid in Hafid Bouazza’s Paravion, Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies 9(3): 49-62.
- Minnaard L. (2006), Mein Istanbul, mein Berlin. Emine Sevgi Özdamar's literary re-negotiations of Turkish-German division. In: Göckede R. & Karentzos A. (Eds.), Der Orient, die Fremde. Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst und Literatur. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag. 83-100.
- Graduiertenkolleg Identität und Differenz & Minnaard L. (2005), Ethnizität und Differenz. (Post-)Koloniale Verhandlungen in Geschichte, Kunst und Medien. Cologne: Böhlau.
- Minnaard L. (2005), Hafid Bouazzas fliegender Teppich. Die Imagination eines niederländischen Arkadiens. In: Graduiertenkolleg "Identität und Differenz" (Ed.), Ethnizität und Geschlecht. (Post-)Koloniale Verhandlungen in Geschichte, Kunst und Medien. Cologne: Böhlau. 263-280.
- Minnaard L. (2004), Playing Kanak Identity: Feridun Zaimoglu's rebellious Performances. In: Arlt H. (Ed.), Das Verbindende der Kulturen. TRANS Studien zur Veränderung der Welt. Vienna: INST.
- Minnaard L. (2002) Free Mobility and the Promise of one European Labour Market. Review of: Zulauf M., Migrant Women Professionals in the European Union no. 4. European Journal of Women's Studies : 490-492.