Agnes Andeweg is associate professor in Literature, and cluster chair at 木瓜福利影视 College Utrecht. She specialises in modern Dutch literature, gothic fiction (1800-present), and Dutch cultural history and memory, with a focus on gender, sexuality, colonial past and national identity. In her research she is interested in how literature helps shape various collective and individual identities. Recently, she published on hospitality in the works of Ali Smith, and on the use and function of art, literature and culture in the Dutch LGBT+ movement (1960-1995). She teaches courses in literature, shared reading and research methods in the humanities. She is a researcher and supervisor in the NWA-project . In Fall 2024, she was a visiting researcher at the Digital Humanities Lab of the 木瓜福利影视 of Basel.
Andeweg wrote a PhD on gothic in contemporary Dutch novels (Griezelig gewoon, Amsterdam UP 2011) and edited the volume Gothic Kinship (Manchester UP 2013) with Sue Zlosnik. In 2014, her essay 鈥楳anifestations of the Flying Dutchman: on materializing ghosts and (not) remembering the colonial past鈥� was awarded the Essay prize of the International Society for Cultural History. She conducted a NWO Alfa Meerwaarde project with the city of Terneuzen, which resulted in the book De Vliegende Hollander en Terneuzen: van internationaal symbool tot lokale legende. She edited Seks in de nationale verbeelding: culturele dimensies van seksuele emancipatie (Amsterdam UP, 2015) and a special issue of Sexuality & Culture on this topic. She published a.o. in Dutch Crossing, Early American Literature, the Journal of Dutch Literature, Cultural History, Nederlandse Letterkunde, Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, and Sexuality & Culture. In 2022 she chaired the jury of the P.C. Hooft prize for narrative prose, which was awarded to Arnon Grunberg.
At 木瓜福利影视 College Utrecht, she initiated the first One Book One Campus project in the Netherlands in 2018. In Fall 2022 she organized One Book One Campus for Utrecht 木瓜福利影视, with Bernardine Evaristo's prize winning Girl Woman Other as the selected book. The second university wide edition in 2024 was devoted to Anton de Kom's We slaves of Suriname.
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