Jeroen Jansen specializes in the impact of humanism and the revival of learning in Renaissance Netherlands, rhetoric, textual and literary criticism, argumentation and style. My current research interests seek all kinds of strategies, as seen from historical pragmatics, speech act theory, the grammar of Dutch, rhetoric, causation and framing theory. Previous projects include Dutch and European literature, rhetoric, literary criticism and style. My major publications include Brevitas (1995), Decorum (2001) and Imitatio (2008).
Contact: j.jansen@uva.nl
2014-present
Programme director BA Dutch Studies (Opleidingsdirecteur BA Neerlandistiek).
Research: causality in Dutch historiographic texts in the Early Modern period
2010- present
Master's coordinator of the Research Master Dutch Golden Age Studies, coordinator of the Master Gouden Eeuw and Minor Gouden Eeuw.
Research: Cultural memory, rhetoric and literary discourse
2006-present
Lecturer / Assistant Professor in Dutch literature
Department of Dutch, University of Amsterdam
Reseach: Pretextual Strategies. The Rhetoric of Ethos, Literary Authority and (Con)Textual Identity in Renaissance Preliminary Texts
2001-2006
VIDI, NWO, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Department of Dutch, University of Amsterdam
Research: Imitation: between Plagiarism and Originality. The Scope and Boundaries of Textual Imitation (imitatio auctorum) in European Literature from c. 1500 to c. 1700: Italy, France, Netherlands
1997-2001
Research Fellow KNAW, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Department of Dutch, University of Amsterdam
Research: Decorum. Observation on literary propriety in Renaissance poetics
1995-1997
VENI, NWO, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
Department of Dutch, University of Amsterdam
Research:Stylistic ideas in Dutch literature between 1600 and 1670, especially concerning perspicuity
1987-1988
Assistant researcher
Department of Dutch, University of Amsterdam
1988-1992
Faculty of Arts, University of Amsterdam.
PhD: April, 24, 1995
Thesis: Brevitas. Opinions on formal and stylistic brevity in the
Renaissance
1984-1987
Classics, Faculty of Arts, University of Amsterdam
1981-1987
Dutch literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Amsterdam
MA: May, 1987
Thesis: Aulularia - Warenar, adaptation contrasted