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D'haen, Theo    |    Belgium
Basic information
Curriculum vitae

Education

Theo D’haen (Antwerp, Belgium, 1950) was educated at the Universities of Antwerp (English, Spanish, BA [1970], MA in Translation Studies [1972] and Conference Interpreting [1973]), Vanderbilt (Nashville, Tennessee - Comparative Literature), Brussels (Germanic Philology), Massachusetts (Amherst, Massachusetts - MA [1976] and PhD in Comparative Literature [1981]), and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1976-1977).

Career

D’haen has worked as a simultaneous interpreter (Dutch, English, French, Spanish, German) for the European Commission (1973-74), and taught at Vanderbilt University (teaching assistant -
1972), the University of Massachusetts (teaching assistant 1974-75, teaching associate 1975-
1976, University Fellow 1976-1978), and Utrecht University, The Netherlands (Assistant Professor 1978-80, Associate Professor 1980-1986). He served as Full Professor and Chair of English and American Literature (1987-2005), Associate Dean of Humanities for Research Affairs (1992-1994), and as Pro-Rector (1998-2001) of Leiden University (The Netherlands). He served as Academic Director of the Dutch (nation-wide) Onderzoekschool Literatuurwetenschap/ Netherlands Graduate Research School for Literature 1999-2002.   As of 2002 he has been Professor of English, American and Comparative Literature at the University of Leuven (KU Leuven, in English usually called “Louvain”), Belgium, where he has also served as Director of the Centre for European Studies (2002-2007), and Head of the Research Unit Literary Relations and Post-National Identities (2005-2008). In all these institutions he sat on various committees (appointments, research, departmental structure, evaluation, etc.) and in Leiden and Leuven he has also served as Head of the Department of English. For courses taught at these institutions see further down.

Honors, awards, fellowships

D’haen held a Research Fellowship from the University of Massachusetts 1976-1978. He was a Fellow at NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies) 1999-2000. The Spring Semester of 2004 he served as Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne in Paris; the Fall Semester of 2007 he held the Erasmus Chair at Harvard University; the Fall Semester of 2010 he held a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship at Harvard; July 2011, July 2013 and July 2014 he taught at the Institute of World Literature (Harvard) at Peking University, Harvard and the City University of Hong Kong, respectively;  July 2015 he served as Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University (Bijing); the Fall Semester of 2011 he held a Gastprofessur at Vienna University (Universität Wien) in Austria; the Fall Semester of 2012 he served as Visiting Professor at the University of the Dutch Antilles (UNA).

Visiting scholar at IFUSS (International Forum for US Studies), University of Illinois, April 2014.

D’haen holds a Research Associate appointment at Harvard’s Department of Comparative
Literature.

D’haen holds a Doctorate honoris causa from the University of Bucharest (2011) and is Honorary
Professor at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.

D’haen has been a Member (1999-) and is a Board (2002-) and Executive Board Member (2009-
) of the Academia Europaea, served as Chair (2002-2009) of its Section on Literary and Theatrical Studies, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of the AE journal, The European Review (Cambridge University Press), as of 2008.

Editorships

Editor-in-Chief of the Academia Europaea journal, The European Review (Cambridge University
Press), as of 2008.

Founding editor of Criticism in Translation (1976), DIVER: Magazine for Reading and Literature (1983-86), Post-War Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors (1988-95), Postmodern Studies (1988-), and Textxet, Studies in Comparative Literature (1992-). Editor of Costerus New Series, Publications on Literature in English (1988-).

Editorial Board or Advisory Board Member for: Journal of Modern Literature (1988-2005), Americana (1987-91), Tmesis (1993-2000), Feit & Fictie (1993-2005), The Low Countries/Ons Erfdeel (1993-), European Journal for English Studies (1996-2006), Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap (1996-1999), European Journal of American Culture (1997-), Journal of American Studies (Cambridge UP, 1998-2006), abes/ Annotated Bibliography for English Studies (1997-2002), Comparative American Studies (2002-), Journal of Literary Studies (UNISA, South Africa; 2002-),  Dedalus, Revista Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada (2004-2010), RIAS (Review of International American Studies, 2004-), Textos e Pre-Textos (Lisbon, Portugal; 2004-
2010), European Review (Cambridge UP, 2004-), Werkwinkel (Poznan, Poland; 2008-), 1616: Anuario de Literatura Comparada (2010-), ), Intertext (ULIM, Chiᶊinău, Moldavia; 2011-), Journal of English Language and Literature (Seoul, Korea – 2012-) Forum for World Literature Studies (Shanghai – 2012-), Foreign Literature Studies (Wuhan, China; 2012-), Atlantic Studies: Global Currents (2014-), Colloquia Comparativa Litterarum (Sofia, Bulgaria; 2015-).

Service to the Profession

Executive Board member of NASA/Netherlands American Studies Association (1990-93), NSES/Netherlands Society for English Studies (1990-93, and 2000-2), ICLA/International Comparative Literature Association – Co-Ordinating Committee on Comparative Literary History (1992-2000 and 2009-2012), ICLA/International Comparative Literature Association - Executive Committee (1994-2000), Belgian-Luxembourg American Studies Association (BLASA, 2002-
2009), International Association for Literary Theory (2000-2005), IASA/International American Studies Association (2000-), FILLM/Fédération Internationale des Langues et Littératures Modernes (2002-2008), Center for American Studies at the Belgian Royal Library (2010-).

Chair ICLA Nominating Committee (2013-2016), Vice-Chair ICLA Co-Ordinating Committee on
Comparative Literary History (2012-2015), Chairman ICLA Research Committee (2007-2010).

Advisory Board Member of CERES (Center for Reception Studies, University of Brussels, 2005-
2012), CETRA (Center for Translation Studies; University of Leuven, 2005-2012)

Executive Director of IASA/International American Studies Association (2000-2004). President of BLASA (2009-2015).
President of FILLM (2008-2011), Assistant-Secretary-General FILLM (2002- 2008).

Participant in various European Thematic Research Networks subsidized by the European
Union.

Founder/Board Member HERMES – European Graduate School for Literary Studies (2002-
2010).

Member Stockholm Collegium.

Executive Committee Member IWL (Institute for World Literature – Harvard, 2010-2014).

Organization of Congresses, Conferences, etc.

Organizer Academia Europaea Congress (Leuven 2010),  First IASA-Congress (Leiden, 2003); XVth ICLA Congress (Leiden, 1997); Co-organizer First Word & Image Congress (Amsterdam
1987), IASAIL Congress (Leiden 1991), and of numerous workshops, symposia, and conferences in The Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, and China, subsidized by university resources, NWO (Dutch Research Foundation), KNAW (Dutch Royal Academy), FWO (Flemish- Belgian Research Foundation), KVAB (Royal Flemish Academy), AE (Academia Europaea), ESF (European Science Foundation), Tsinghua University. For details see further down.

International Evaluation Experience

Member of evaluation panels for EU FP6 and FP7 (European Union Research Programs – Framework Programs), HERA (Humanities European Research Area), ESF (European Science Foundation), NWO (Dutch Research Organization), VSNU (Dutch Universities Association), Portuguese Research Foundation (FCT), Polish Research Foundation, Danish Research Foundation, Swiss Research Foundation, Romanian Research Foundation, Austrian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies), Faculty of Arts Utrecht University (Netherlands), CEC (Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Lisbon – 2000-2010), Istituto Margarida Llosa (Un. De Porto – 2000-
2010), Anton de Kom University (Paramaribo, Surinam), University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu), Leverhulme Trust.

Chair Program Review Evaluation Committee (Visitatiecommissie, 2012-2013) for NVAO (Dutch- Flemish University Accreditation Organisation)

External Examiner Limerick University, Ireland (2014-2017).

Referee for U.S., Canadian, British, Dutch, Belgian, Austrian, Australian, and Swedish university tenure appointments.

Assessor/Reader for Routledge, Palgrave/Macmillan, Cambridge University Press, Columbia
University Press, Bloomsbury, Anthem Press, Brill.

Guest Lectures and Keynotes
Guest lectures in many universities around the world. For a list see further down. Keynote/speaker/participant in numerous congresses, conferences, symposia, etc. For a list see
further down.

PhD and MA Supervision

28 Ph.Ds supervised in Leiden and Leuven. Member Ph.D. committees in The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark, Spain, and Portugal. List of Ph.D. candidates and subjects available upon request.

Several hundred MA Theses supervised in Utrecht, Leiden and Leuven.

Current Research Interests

On-going research areas and teaching interests include modernism and postmodernism, colonialism and post-colonialism, popular genres, the relationship between literature, history and economics, and world literature.

Research plans for the immediate future concern completing two large sections (200pp) on European literature since 1500 for Blackwell (see “publications, under contract”), and writing a volume on a number of nineteenth-century American authors (Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, Longfellow, Whitman, Twain, Howells, James) in relation to world literature.

Relation to China

Honorary Professor at Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China.

July 2015 Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University.

May 2014 co-organization, with Prof. Wang Ning of Tsinghua and Jiao Tong universities, of a joint Tsinghua/Academia Europaea colloquium on “The Humanities and Social Sciences, Globalization, and China.” (proceedings to be published in the European Review in 2016).

July 2011 Seminar Leader at Harvard Institute for World Literature held at Peking University, July 2014 Seminar Leader at Harvard Institute for World Literature held at City University of Hong Kong.

Guest lectures at Tsinghua University, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Finance and Economics
University, Nanjing University.

Member Advisory Editorial Board of Forum for World Literature Studies (Shanghai – 2012-),
Foreign Literature Studies (Wuhan, China; 2012-).

Been invited to serve as European Director of a Sino-European Centre for Humanities and Social Development jointly organized by and at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and the Academia Europaea.




Selected Publications
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Books



Authored or Co-Authored

1. 2014 American Literature: A History, London: Routledge, 314pp. (with Hans Bertens); hb &
pb
2. 2012 The Routledge Concise History of World Literature, London and New York: Routledge,
201pp. hb & pb
Reviewed in 452 F : revista de teoría de la literatura y literatura comparada ; Núm. 11 (2014), p. 215-219;
3. 2008 Amerikaanse literatuur: een geschiedenis, Leuven: ACCO, 516pp. (with Hans Bertens)
4. 2001 Contemporary American Crime Fiction, London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 233pp, (with
Hans Bertens). hb & pb
Reviewed in Choice, Vol.39(7), p.1234
5. 1991 Windows on English & American literature, Groningen: Wolters- Noordhoff, 204pp, (with Hans Bertens and Anna van Gelderen).
6. 1988b Het Postmodernisme in de literatuur, Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers, 196pp, (with
Hans Bertens)
7. 1988a Fragments Against Our Ruins: Canons in de Anglistiek, Inaugural Lecture at Leyden
University on 20 May 1988, Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers.
8. 1986 Diver’s Kort Verhaal van de engelstalige literatuurgeschiedenis, Groningen: Wolters-
Noordhoff,  56pp  magazine-format,  (with  A.  van  Gelderen,  T.  Heuvelmans,  and  W. Verhoeven; literature survey for high school), repeatedly reprinted.
9. 1983b Geschiedenis van de Amerikaanse literatuur, Amsterdam: De Arbeiderspers, 366pp,
(with Hans Bertens).
10. 1983a Text to Reader: A Communicative Approach to Fowles, Barth, Cortázar and Boon, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 162 pp + X.

Edited or Co-Edited

11. 2015  Cosmopolitanism and  the  Postnational:  Literature  and  the  New  Europe,  César
Domínguez and Theo D’haen, eds., Leiden and Boston: Brill/Rodopi, 250pp.
12. 2015 Major versus Minor? Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World, Theo D’haen,
Iannis Goerlandt and Roger Sell, eds., Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins
Publishing Company, 276pp.
13. 2014 Caribbeing: Comparing Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Kristian van Haesendonck
and Theo D’haen, eds., Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 341pp.
Reviewed in ProtoView, Dec, 2014

14. 2013 World Literature: A Reader, Theo D’haen, César Domínguez, and Mads Rosendahl
Thomsen, ed., London and New York: Routledge, 373pp. hb & pb
15. 2012a A World History of Literature, Theo D’haen, ed., Brussels: Koninklijke Vlaamse Akademie van België voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten (Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium), 111pp.
16. 2012b The Routledge Companion to World Literature, Theo D’haen, David Damrosch and
Djelal Kadir, ed., London and New York: Routledge, 515pp. hb & pb
Reviewed in Reference Reviews, Vol.26(7), pp.42-43
17. 2011 The Canonical Debate Today: Crossing Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries, Liviu
Papadima, David Damrosch and Theo D’haen, ed., Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi,
355pp.
Reviewed in CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, March, 2012, Vol.14(1) [Peer
Reviewed Journal]; Comparative Literature Studies, 2014, Vol.51(4), pp.679-683;
18. 2009a International Don Quixote, Theo D’haen and Reindert Dhondt, ed., Amsterdam & New
York: Rodopi, 275pp.
Reviewed in The Comparatist : Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Association,
2012, Vol.36(0), pp.312-314; Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos, 1 January 2010, Vol.34(2), pp.409-410;    Comparative Literature Studies, Vol.49(1), p.123; Reference and Research Book News, Vol.24(3)
19. 2009b Literature for Europe? Theo D’haen and Iannis Goerlandt, ed., Amsterdam & New York:
Rodopi, 437pp.
Reviewed in Comparative Literature Studies, 2013, Vol.50(2), pp.364-367 [Peer Reviewed Journal]; Revue de littérature comparée : RLC, 2010, Vol.84(3), pp.349-349; Comparative Critical Studies, 2012, Vol.9(2), p.227-231; Reference and Research Book News, Vol.25(2)
20. 2006 Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing, Theo D’haen and Pieter Vermeulen, ed.,
Postmodern Studies 39, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 258pp.
Reviewed in Reference and Research Book News, May 2007, Vol.22(2)
21. 2005 How Far is America From Here? Theo D’haen, Paul Giles, Djelal Kadir, and Lois Parkinson
Zamora, ed., Textxet Studies in Comparative Literature 47, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi,
636pp
Reviewed in Reference and Research Book News, Vol.20(4)
22. 2003  Configuring Romanticism, Theo  D’haen,  Peter  Liebregts,  and  Wim  Tigges,  ed.,
assisted by Colin Ewen, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 306pp.
Reviewed in Reference and Research Book News, Vol.19(1)
23. 2002a Europa buitengaats: koloniale en postkoloniale literaturen, 2 Vols, Theo D’haen, ed., Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 526 + 452 pp.
24. 2002b Zorro & Co, Nadia Lie and Theo D’haen, ed., Nijmegen: Vantilt, 192pp.
25. 2001 Tussen twee werelden: het gevoel van ontheemding in de postkoloniale literatuur, Theo D'haen and Peter Liebregts, ed., Semaian 21, Leiden: Opleiding Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azië en Oceanië, 240pp.
26. 1999a Colonizer and Colonized, Theo D’haen and Patricia Krüs, ed., Proceedings of the
XVth ICLA Congress - Leiden 1997, Vol. 2, Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 643pp.
27. 1999b Proceedings of the XVth ICLA Congress, Leiden 1997, Theo D’haen, General Editor (with separate teams of editors for each separate volume), 9 vols., Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi.
28. 1998a De geest van Multatuli: proteststemmen in vroegere Europese koloniën, Theo D’haen
en Gerard Termorshuizen, ed., Semaian 17, Leiden: Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuid- Oost Azië en Oceanië, vi + 248pp.
29. 1998b (Un)Writing Empire, Theo D’haen, ed.,  Cross/Cultures 30, Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 321pp.
Reviewed in Africa, Jan 1, 1998, Vol.68(4), p.617;

30. 1998c Oriental Prospects: Western Literature and the Lure of the East, C.C. Barfoot and
Theo D’haen, ed., DQR Studies in Literature 22, Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, vii +
283pp.
31. 1997a Constellation Caliban: Figurations of a Character, Nadia Lie and Theo D’haen, ed.,
Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 1997, iii+356pp.
Reviewed in Revue de Littérature Comparée, Vol.72(3), p.379; Journal of European Studies,
1998, Vol.28 (1), pp.176-178
32. 1997b ‘Closing the Gap’: American Postmodern Fiction in Germany, Italy, Spain, and The
Netherlands, Theo D’haen and Hans Bertens, ed., Postmodern Studies 20, Amsterdam and
Atlanta: Rodopi, 267pp.
Reviewed in The Comparatist : Journal of the Southern Comparative Literature Association,
2000, Vol.24, pp.171-173;
33. 1996a Weer-Werk: schrijven en terugschrijven in koloniale en postkoloniale literaturen, Theo
D’haen, ed., Semaian 15, Leiden: TCZOAO, 163pp.
34. 1996b Writing Nation, Writing Region in America, Theo D’haen and Hans Bertens, ed., European Contributions to American Studies XXXIII, Amsterdam: VU Press, 1996, 271pp.
Reviewed in Journal of American Studies, Vol.31, p.454
35. 1995a Narrative Turns and Minor Genres in Postmodernism, Theo D’haen and Hans
Bertens, ed.,Postmodern Studies 11,  Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 320pp.
36. 1995b The Small Town in America: A Multidisciplinary Revisit, Hans Bertens and Theo
D’haen, ed., European Contributions to American Studies XXXII, Amsterdam: VU Press,
246pp.
37. 1995c Troubled Histories, Troubled Fictions: Twentieth-Century Anglo-Irish Prose, Theo D’haen and José Lanters, ed., The Literature of Politics, The Politics of Literature: Proceedings of the Leiden IASAIL Conference, Vol. 4, Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi,
174pp.
38. 1995d The Literature of Politics, The Politics of Literature: Proceedings of the Leiden IASAIL Conference, 5 vols, General Editors C.C. Barfoot, Theo D’haen and Tjebbe A. Westendorp,
249pp, 204p, 249pp, 174pp, and 209pp.
39. 1994  Liminal  Postmodernisms: The  Postmodern,  The  (Post-)Colonial,  and  the  (Post-
)Feminist, Theo D’haen and Hans Bertens, ed., Postmodern Studies 8, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 357pp.
40. 1993a Shades of Empire in Colonial and Post-Colonial Literatures, C.C. Barfoot and Theo
D’haen, ed., DQR Studies in Literature 11, Amsterdam: Rodopi: 320pp.
Reviewed in The yearbook of English studies : YES, 1995, Vol.25(1), p.346; World Literature
Today, Vol.68(4), p.900
41. 1993b British Postmodern Fiction, Theo D’haen and Hans Bertens, ed., Postmodern Fiction
7, Amsterdam: Rodopi/Antwerpen: Restant, 179pp.
Reviewed in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik : ZAA ; a quarterly of language, literature and culture, 1995, Vol.43(4), p.365
42. 1992 Postmodern Fiction in Canada, Theo D’haen and Hans Bertens, ed., Postmodern
Studies 6, Amsterdam: Rodopi/Antwerpen: Restant, 221pp.
43. 1991 Tropes of Revolution: Writers’ reactions to real and imagined revolutions 1789-1989,
C.C. Barfoot and Theo D’haen, ed., DQR Studies in Literature 9, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 401pp.
44. 1990a Something Understood: Studies in Anglo-Dutch Literary Translation, Bart Westerweel
and Theo D’haen, ed., Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 335 pp.
Reviewed in Meta, 1993, Vol.38(1), pp.123-124; Modern Philology, Vol.91(2), p.254
45. 1990b Verbal/Visual Crossings 1880-1980, Theo D’haen, ed., Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi,
384 pp.
Reviewed in Revue de Littérature Comparée, Vol.66(3), p.358
46. 1990c Herinnering, herkomst, herschrijving: Koloniale en post-koloniale literaturen, Theo
D’haen, ed., Semaian 4, Leiden: Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuid-Oost Azië en
Oceanië van de Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1990, 207pp.

47. 1990d History and Post-War Writing, Theo D’haen and Hans Bertens, ed., Postmodern
Studies 3, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 279pp.
Reviewed in Journal of American Studies, Vol.26(1), p.103
48. 1990e Centennial Hauntings: Pope, Byron and Eliot in the Year 88, C.C. Barfoot and Theo
D’haen, ed., DQR Studies in Literature 8, Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 366pp.
49. 1989a The Clash of Ireland: Literary Contrasts and Connections, C.C. Barfoot and Theo
D’haen, ed. DQR Studies in Literature 4, Amsterdam/Atlanta GA: Rodopi, 281 pp.
Reviewed in Anglia : Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, 1993, Vol.111(1), pp.255-256; Journal of Modern Literature, Fall 1990/Winter 1991, Vol.17(2/3), p.254
50. 1989b Convention and Innovation in Literature, Th.D’haen, R. Gruebel and H. Lethen, ed.,
Utrecht Publications in General and Comparative Literature 24, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 434 pp.
51. 1988a Post-War Literatures in English: A Lexicon of Contemporary Authors,
Groningen/Alphen  a.d.  Rijn:  Wolters/Samson,  Hans  Bertens,  Theo  D’haen,  Joris
Duytschaever, and Richard Todd, ed.
52. 1988b Postmodern Fiction in Europe and the Americas, Theo D’haen and Hans Bertens, ed., Postmodern Studies 1, Amsterdam/Antwerpen: Rodopi/Restant, 208pp.
Reviewed in Modern Fiction Studies, Vol.35(4), p.858; The Modern Language Review, Vol.85(4), p.904; Journal of Modern Literature, Vol.16(2-3), p.195; Journal of American Studies, 1989, Vol.23(3), pp.504-506 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
53. 1986a Linguistics and the Study of Literature, Theo D’haen, ed., Amsterdam: Rodopi. 288pp.
54. 1986b Commonwealth Literature, mostly Canadian, Theo D’haen and August J. Fry, ed., Amsterdam: VU Press, 91 pp.

Issues of Journals Edited

1. 2013a “A Tribute to Douwe Fokkema,” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue canadienne de littérature comparée 39:3 (2012), 224-374.
2. 2013b “Amerikaans proza: een reisgids,” Vlaanderen 344 (jaargang 62, maart 2013), 41pp.
3. 2005 “Focus: Postcolonial Literature”, European Review 13,1 (February 2005), 73-161.
4. 1990 Pope, Byron and Eliot, special issue of DQR 20,1 (1990).
5. 1988a Word & Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry 4,1, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Word & Image/Actes du Premier Congrès International de Texte et Image, John Dixon Hunt, S.A. Varga and Theo D’haen, ed..
6. 1988b "Irish Contrasts and Connections," Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo-American Letters
18,3.
7. 1984 "Linguistic Contributions to the Study of English Literature," Dutch Quarterly Review of
Anglo-American Letters 14,3.








Articles

Under Contract

“European literature (after 1500),” in A World History of Literature, eds. David Damrosch, Gunilla
Wada-Lindberg, et. al., Oxford: Blackwell, delivery date 2016 (200pp).

In press

“Empire’s Ebb,” in The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature, Ed. B. McHale and L. Platt, delivered November 2014 (6000 words).



published


1 2015a “Latin American Literature between World Literature and Géocritique,” in América Latina y la literatura mundial: mercado editorial, redes globales y la invención de un continente. Ed. Gesine Müller and Dunia Gras Miravet, Nuevos Hispanismos, serie dirigida por Julio Ortega, Frankfurt and Madrid: Vervuert/Iberoamericana, pp. 55-66.
2 2015b “Cultural Memory and the Postcolonial,”  in Littératures, Poétiques, Mondes/ Literatures, Poetics, Worlds, Ed. Micéala Symington, Paris: Honoré Champion, pp. 257-68.
3 2015c “To be Flemish in order to become European: August Vermeylen and Flemish
Literature,” in Rifondare la letteratura nazionale per un pubblico europeo, Alexandra
Vranceanu and Angelo Pagliardini, ed., Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp. 131-45.
4 2014a “Going Caribbean, Going Global,” in Caribbeing: Comparing Caribbean Literatures and Cultures, Ed. Kristian Van Haesendonck and Theo D’haen, Amsterdam & New York:
Rodopi, pp. 23-40.
5 2014b “Major Histories, Minor Literatures, and World Authors," in CLCWeb: Comparative
Literature and Culture 15.5 (2013): < http://dx.doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.2342>
6 2014c “Capitalizing (on) World Literature,” in Echilibrul între Antiteze, Laura Mesina, Monica Spiridon, et al., ed., Bucharest: University of Bucharest Press, pp. 11-26.
7 2013a “The Humanities Under Siege?” Chinese version of 2012c in Diogenes (Chinese)
2012.2.56, 77-92.
8 2013b “Cartografiando el Modernismo: ganando con la traducción. Martinus Nijhoff y T.S.
Eliot,” in Literatura europea comparada, César Domínguez, ed. Madrid : Arco/Libros, pp.
287-312. (Spanish version of 2009a)
9 2013c “Major Languages, Minor Literatures, Multiple Legacies,” in Towards a Global Literature/Verso una letteratura globalizzata, Tim Parks & Edoardo Zuccato, ed., Testo a Fronte 48, Milan: Marcos y Marcos, pp. 11-22.
10   2013d “Not So Elementary,” in Karakter 43, 25-27.
11   2013e “(No) Postmodernism in the Age of World Literature,” in Canadian Review of
Comparative Literature/Revue canadienne de littérature comparée 39:3 (2012), 317-31.
12   2013f “Douwe Wessel Fokkema,” in Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue canadienne de littérature comparée 39:3 (2012), 224-27.
13   2013g “European Postmodernism: The Cosmodern Turn,” in Narrative 21:3 (October
2013), 271-83.
14   2012a “Minor Literatures and Major Histories,” in A World History of Literature, Theo
D’haen, ed., Brussels: Koninklijke Vlaamse Akademie van België voor Wetenschappen en
Kunsten (Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium), pp. 101-108.
15   2012b “La literatura en español en la literatura mundial,” in Insula 787-788 (Julio-Agosto
2012), 16-19.
16   2012c “The Humanities Under Siege?” in Diogenes 229-230 (58, 1-2), 136-146.
17   2012d “Space as Lived Experience in Postcolonial Literature: Retellings of the Caribbean,”
in Esercizi Filosofici 7 (2012), 5-19.
18   2012e “Mapping World Literature,” in The Routledge Companion to World Literature, Theo
D’haen, David Damrosch and Djelal Kadir, ed., London: Routledge, pp. 413-22.
19   2012f “The ‘Ends’ of Postcolonialism,” in The Postcolonial Low Countries: Literature,
Colonialism, Multiculturalism, Elleke Boehmer and Sarah De Mul, ed., Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 59-72.
series): 1 (2011), 29-39.
21   2011a “Les sciences humaines en état de siège?” in Diogène 229-230 (Janvier-Avril
2010), 197-213.
22   2011b “How Many Canons Do We Need?” World Literature, National Literature, European Literature,” in Liviu Papadima, David Damrosch and Theo D’haen, ed. The Canonical Debate Today: Crossing Disciplinary and Cultural Boundaries, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, pp. 19-38.
23   2011c “Towards a non-Eurocentric History of World Literature” (with Anders Pettersson), in Marc Maufort & Caroline De Wagter, ed. Old Margins and New Centres: The European Literary Heritage in an Age of Globalization/Anciennes Marges et Nouveaux Centres: L’héritage littéraire européen dans une ère de globalisation, Brussels, Bern, etc.: Peter Lang, 43-56.
24   2010a “Metamorphoses, Mechanic, and Magic in Contemporary Literature,” in Monika
Schmitz-Emans and Manfred Schmeling, ed. Fortgesetzte Metamorphosen: Ovid und die
ästhetische Moderne/Continuing Metamorphoses: Ovid and Aesthetic Modernity, Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 91-98.
25   2009a “Mapping Modernism: Gaining in Translation - Martinus Nijhoff and T.S. Eliot,” in
Comparative Critical Studies 6, 1, 21-41.
26   2009b “Plum’s the Girl! Janet Evanovich and the Empowerment of Common America,” in Marieke Krajenbrink and Kate M. Quinn, ed., Investigating Identities: Questions of Identity in Contemporary International Crime Fiction, Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 145-58..
27   2009c “Hoe zwart is Obama?” in Bart Raeymaekers, ed. Visie en vooruitgang, Lessen voor de eenentwintigste eeuw 21, Leuven: Universitaire Pers Leuven, 163-82
28   2009d “Don Quixote on the Mississippi: Twain’s Modernities,” in International Don Quixote,
Theo D’haen and Reindert Dhondt, ed., Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, pp. 237-50; also published as A(2007d) in Richard Gray and Waldemar Zacharasewiecz, ed. Transatlantic Exchanges: The American South in Europe – Europe in the American South, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 349-61.
29   2009e “Preface,” (with Reindert Dhondt), in International Don Quixote, Theo D’haen and
Reindert Dhondt, ed., Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, pp. 3-14.
30   2009f) “The Representational Logic of Post-Americanist Narratives,” in Alfred Hornung and Rüdiger Kunow, ed., Representation and Decoration in a Postmodern Age, Heidelberg: Winter, pp. 51-64. (revised version of 2001d, “Un-Scripting the Nation: The Representational Logic of Post-Americanist Narratives,” in Critical Interfaces: Contributions on Philosophy, Literature and Culture in Honour of Herbert Grabes, Gordon Collier, Klaus Schwank and Franz Wieselhuber, ed., Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 343-54, and
1998f "Post-Scripts: Postnational Identities in Contemporary North-American Fiction," in Roman contemporain et identité culturelle en Amérique du nord/Contemporary Fiction and Cultural Identity in North America, Jaap Lintvelt, Richard Saint-Gelais, Will Verhoeven et/and Catherine Raffi-Béroud, ed., Québec: Nota Bene, 29-44).”
31   2009g “Exile, Caribbean Literature, and the World Republic of Letters,” in Michael Niblett and Kerstin Oloff, ed., Perspectives on the ‘Other America’: Comparative Approaches to Caribbean and Latin American Culture, Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, pp. 221-31 (revised version of 2008b, “I piaceri dell’esilio,” in Roberto Russi, ed., Esilio: Quaderni de Synapsis VII, Firenze : Le Monnier, pp. 29-36.)
32   2009h “Van koloniale naar wereldliteratuur ? Postkoloniale visies op de Nederlandse literatuur, »  in Jerzy Koch and Ewa Dynarowicz, ed., Van koloniale naar wereldliteratuur, Poznan : Vakgroep Nederlandse en Zuid-Afrikaanse Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, pp. 9-15.
33   2009i “Introduction,” in Literature for Europe? (with Iannis Goerlandt), Theo D’haen and
Iannis Goerlandt, ed., Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi, 5-9.

34   2009j “World Literature, Postcolonial Politics, French-Caribbean Literature,” in Littératures francophones et politiques, Jean Bessière, ed., Paris: Karthala, pp. 63-73.
35   2008a “The Netherlands and Its Colonies,” section editor, in Prem Poddar, Rajeev S.
Patke and Lars Jensen, ed., A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures –
Continental Europe and Its Empires, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 314-99.
36   2008b “I piaceri dell’esilio,” in Robert Russi, ed. Esilio, Quaderni di Synapsis VII, Firenze: Le Monnier, 29-36.
37   2008c “Smeltkroes, slaatje, of eenheidsworst? De multiculturele literatuur van de
Verenigde Staten,” in De Leeswolf 14, 9 (December 2008): 673-76.
38   2007a ”Memoria culturale e studi postcoloniali,” in Elena Agazzi and Vita Fortunati, ed.,
Memoria e saperi: discorsi transdisciplinari, Rome: Meltemi, 625-38.
39   2007b “Cultural Memories, Literary Forms, Caribbean Revolutions,” in Lieven D’hulst, Jean-Marc Moura, Liesbeth De Bleeker and Nadia Lie, ed. Caribbean Interfaces, Textxet Studies in Comparative Literature 52, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 169-83 (slightly revised version of 2000e "Revolutionary Crossings: Caribbean Identities and Caribbean Forms," in Eleni Politou-Marmarinou and Sophia Denissi, ed., Identity and Alterity in Literature, 18th-20th c., Vol. I, Athens: Domos, 335-49).
40   2007c “Antique lands, New Worlds? Comparative Literature, Intertextuality, Translation,” in
Forum for Modern Language Studies 43, 2, 107-19.
41   2007d “Don Quixote on the Mississippi: Twain’s Modernities,” in Richard Gray and
Waldemar Zacharasewiecz, ed. Transatlantic Exchanges: The American South in Europe
– Europe in the American South, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 349-61.
42   2006a “Agents of Empowerment: The Cultural Work of Contemporary American Crime Fiction,” in As Faces da Literatura: Representaçoes de Realidades/The Faces of Literature: Representing Realities, Sonia Torres and Carla Portilho, ed., Rio de Janeiro: Léo Christiano Editorial Ltda., 2006. ISBN 85-85020-67-9, 1-9.
43   2006b “Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,” in Engelstalige Literatuur na 1945, Deel 3: Kritiek, Theorie en Essay, Anneleen Masschelein and Dirk de Geest, ed., Leuven: Peeters, 145-57.
44   2006c “On how not to be Lisbon if you want to be modern – Dutch reactions to the Lisbon
earthquake,” in European Review 14,3 (July 2006), 351-58.
45   2006d “Cultural Turns, Global Narratives, and American Detective Fiction,” in Produktive Paradokser, Festskrift til Svend Erik Larsen, Lis Möller and Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, ed., Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, 243-60.
46   2006e “Yeats in the Dutch-language Low Countries,” in The Reception of W.B. Yeats in
Europe, Klaus Peter Jochum, ed., London and New York: Continuum, 12-24.
47   2006f “European Pasts, American Presents: Literary memory, Period Theory, and Didactic Paradigms,” in Literature and Memory: Theoretical Paradigms, Genres, Functions, Ansgar Nünning, Marion Gymnich and Roy Sommer, ed., Tübingen: Francke Verlag, 29-39 (revised version of 2003f).
48   2006g “Introduction: Cultural Identity and Postmodern Writing,” in Cultural Identity and
Postmodern Writing, Theo D’haen and Pieter Vermeulen, ed., Postmodern Studies 39,
Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 1-14.
49   2006h “Glocalizing the Novel,” in Studying Transcultural Literary History, Gunilla Lindberg-
Wada, ed. Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 144-51
50   2005a “Introduction. What the Postcolonial Means to us: European literature(s) and
Postcolonialism”, in European Review 13,1 (February 2005), 73-78.
51   2005b “ ‘A Splenetic Englishman’: The Dutch Byron,” in The Reception of Byron in Europe,
Volume II: Northern, Central and Eastern Europe, Richard A. Cardwell, ed., London and
New York: Thoemmes Continuum, 269-82.
52   2005c “Post/Modernist East,” in Cartographies: Mélanges offerts à Maria Alzira Seixo, Ariane:
Revue d’études littéraires françaises 18, 19 & 20 (2003-2005), 185-95.
O Grande Terramoto de Lisboa : Ficar Diferente, Helena Carvalho Buescu and Gonçalo
Cordeiro, ed., Lisbon : Gradiva, 553-73.
54   2005e “Stranger in a Strange Land: Jamal Mahjoub’s The Carrier,” in Migrant
Cartographies : New Cultural and Literary Spaces in Post-Colonial Europe, Sandra
Ponzanesi and Daniela Merolla, ed. Lanham, MD and Oxford, UK: Lexington Books, 123-
35.
55   2005f “Post/Modernist East,” in Re-Imagining Language and Literature for the 21st
Century, Suthira Duangsamosorn (et.al.), ed., Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature
49, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 319-30. (Also appeared in Cartographies: Mélanges offerts à Maria Alzira Seixo, Ariane: Revue d’études littéraires françaises 18, 19 &
20 (2003-2005), 185-95)
56   2004a “Inleiding,” in Engelstalige literatuur na 1945, deel 2: proza, andere continenten, Elke
D’Hoker and Ortwin de Graef,  ed., Leuven: Peeters, ix-xiv.
57   2004b “James Ellroy” in Engelstalige literatuur na 1945, deel 2: proza, andere continenten,
Elke D’Hoker and Ortwin de Graef, ed., Leuven: Peeters, 105-18.
58   2004c "Stalking Multiculturalism: Historical Sleuths at the End of the Twentieth Century," in Uneasy Alliance: Twentieth-Century American Literature, Culture and Biography, Hans Bak, ed., Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 335-44.
59   2004d, " `De modder van de Nijl': Britse romantici en de koloniën," in Wandelaar onder de palmen: opstellen over koloniale en postkoloniale literatuur en cultuur, Michiel van
Kempen,Piet Verkruijsse en Adrienne Zuiderweg, ed., Leiden: KITLV Uitgeverij, 3-13.
60   2004e “ ‘Concordia Discordans’ and Asian American Detective Fiction,” in Living in
Posterity: Essays in Honour of Bart Westerweel, J.F. van Dijkhuizen, P. Hoftijzer, J.
Roding and P. Smith, ed., Hilversum: Uitgeverij Verloren, 69-73.
61   2004f “Third Way, Third Class, Third World: Counter-Postmodernism, Transnationalism, Glocalisation,” in Teaching Postmodernism – Postmodern Teaching, Klaus Stierstorfer and Laurens Volkmann, ed., Tübingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 35-42.
62   2003a “ ‘Nilotic Mud’: British Romantic Writers and the Colonies,” in Configuring
Romanticism, Theo D’haen, Peter Liebregts, and Wim Tigges, ed., assisted by Colin
Ewen, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 51-63.
63   2003b “Yorkshire in de tropen. Maryse Condés La migration des coeurs,” in Identiteit en locatie in de hedendaagse literatuur, Aleid Fokkema en Maarten Steenmeijer, ed. Nijmegen: Vantilt, 73-91 (appeared earlier in : Histoire, jeu, science dans l'aire de la
littérature, Mélanges offerts à Evert van der Starre, Sjef Houppermans, Paul J. Smith and
Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau, ed., Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000, 202-14).
64   2003c “Samurai Sleuths and Detective Daughters, The American Way,” in Sleuthing
Ethnicity: The Detective in Multiethnic Crime Fiction, D. Fischer-Hornung and Monika
Mueller, ed., Madison/Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press and London: Associated University Presses, 36-52.
65   2003d “European Identities, American Theories,” in Cadernos de literatura comparada 8/9
(2003), 287-304.
66   2002a “Postmodern Noir: ‘Fin d’America’?” in Postmodernism and the Fin de Siècle,
Gerhard Hoffmann and Alfred Hornung, ed., American Studies 81, Heidelberg: Carl
Winter, 241-48.
67   2002b “Murder and Modernism: T.S. Eliot and Interbellum Detective Writing,” in Crime, Detecçao es Castigo: Estudos sobre Literatura Policial, G. Vilas-Boas and Maria de
Lurdes Sampaio, ed., Porto: Granito, 125-38 (revised English version of  2000h "Moord in de Kathedraal van het Modernisme,", in Literatuurwetenschap tussen betrokkenheid en distantie, Liesbeth Korthals Altes en Dick Schram, ed. Assen: Van Gorcum).
68   2002d “John Barth,” in Postmodernism: the Key Figures, H. Bertens and Joseph Natoli, ed., Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, 32-38.

69   2002e “Public Bodies, Private I/Eyes, and “US” Identities,” in Corpo e identidades, Ana Luisa Amaral, Marinela Freitas and Paulo Eduardo Carvalho, ed., Cadernos de Literatura Comparada 3-4 (December 2001), Porto: Granito, 9-23.
70   2002f "Inleiding," in Europa buitengaats: Koloniale en postkoloniale literaturen, 2 Vols, Theo
D'haen, ed., Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert Bakker., Vol. I, 7-29.
71   2002g "`White Man's Burden': de Engelse koloniale literatuur," in Europa buitengaats: Koloniale en postkoloniale literaturen, 2 Vols, Theo D'haen, ed. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Bert
Bakker., Vol. I, 377-413.
72   2002h“`The Native Muse': Amerikaanse en Indiaans-Amerikaanse literatuur," in Europa buitengaats: Koloniale en postkoloniale literaturen, 2 Vols, Theo D'haen, ed. Amsterdam:
Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, Vol. II, 271-78.
73   2002i “ ‘Writing Travel’ under Postcolonialism,” in Literatura e Viagens Pós-coloniais, ACT
6, Helena Carvalhao Buescu and Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, ed., Lisboa: Ediçoes
Colibri/Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, 33-48.
74   2002j “Vrijdag, of de toekomst van Robinson,” in Zorro & Co, Nadia Lie and Theo D’haen,
ed., Nijmegen: Vantilt , 25-36.
75   2002k "Stripes and Gripes: `American' Multicultural Identities," in Multiculturalisme et identité en littérature et en art, Jean Bessière and Sylvie André, ed., Paris : L’Harmattan,
261-72.
76   2001a "Uit Engeland geboren: hybriditeit van Shakespeare tot Rushdie," in Theo D'haen en Peter Liebregts, ed., Tussen twee werelden: het gevoel van ontheemding in de postkoloniale literatuur, Semaian. 21, Leiden: Opleiding Talen en Culturen van Zuidoost-Azië en Oceanië,
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77   2001b "Caribbean Migrations: Maryse Condé on the Track of Emily Brontë," in Cadernos de
literatura comparada 1, Para uma crítica do discurso crítico : narativa literária e identidade, Maria de Fátima Outeirinho and Rosa Maria Martelo, ed., Porto : Granito, 77-92 (appeared
earlier in : Histoire, jeu, science dans l'aire de la littérature, Mélanges offerts à Evert van der
Starre, Sjef Houppermans, Paul J. Smith and Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau, ed., Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 2000, 202-14).
78   2001c “Pound Wise, Euro Foolish? On English Literature, Euroliterature, and World
Literature,” in The European English Messenger X,1 (Spring 2001), 60-63.
79   2001d “Un-Scripting the Nation: The Representational Logic of Post-Americanist Narratives,” in Critical Interfaces: Contributions on Philosophy, Literature and Culture in Honour of Herbert Grabes, Gordon Collier, Klaus Schwank and Franz Wieselhuber, ed. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 343-54 (revised version of 1998f, "Post-Scripts: Postnational Identities in Contemporary North-American Fiction," in Roman contemporain et identité culturelle en Amérique du nord/Contemporary Fiction and Cultural Identity in North America, Jaap Lintvelt, Richard Saint-Gelais, Will Verhoeven et/and Catherine Raffi-Béroud, ed., Québec: Nota Bene, 29-44).
80   2000a "Lost in Translation? Nijhoff and Eliot," in Under Construction, Links for the Site of
Literary Theory: Essays in Honour of Hendrik van Gorp, Dirk de Geest, Dirk Delabastita, et
el., ed., Leuven: Leuven University Press, 225-38.
81   2000b «Caribbean Migrations: Maryse Condé on the Track of Emily Brontë » in Histoire,
jeu, science dans l’aire de la littérature, Mélanges offerts à Evert van der Starre, Sjef
Houppermans, Paul J. Smith and Madeleine van Strien-Chardonneau, ed., Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA: Rodopi, 202-14.
82   2000c "Traveling India," in The Paths of Multiculturalism: Travel Writings and
Postcolonialism, Maria-Alzira Seixo, John Noyes, Graça Abreu and Isabel Moutinho, ed., Lisbon: Edições Cosmos, 171-83.
83   2000d "From Comparative Literature to Comparative Cultural Studies," in Arcadia 34, 2
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84   2000e "Revolutionary Crossings: Caribbean Identities and Caribbean Forms," in Identity and Alterity in Literature, 18th-20th c., Vol. I, Eleni Politou-Marmarinou and Sophia Denissi, ed., Athens: Domos, 335-49.
85   2000f "Moord in de Kathedraal van het Modernisme," in Literatuurwetenschap tussen betrokkenheid en distantie, Liesbeth Korthals Altes en Dick Schram, ed., Assen: Van
Gorcum.
86   1999a "‘Post-Colonial’ Literature and Postmodern Literary Historiography," in Neohelicon
62,2: 9-19.
87   1999b "‘America’ and ‘Deleuze’," in Traveling Theory: France and the United States, Ieme
van der Poel and Sophie Bertho, ed., Ton Hoenselaars, assoc. ed., Madison/Teaneck: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, and London: Associated University Presses, 39-53.
88   1998a "Inleiding," (with G. Termorshuizen), De geest van Multatuli: proteststemmen in
vroegere Europese koloniën, Theo D’haen and Gerard Termorshuizen, ed., Semaian 17, Leiden: Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuid-Oost Azië en Oceanië, 1-18.
89   1998b « Re-Presenting the Caribbean, » in L’exil et l’allégorie dans le roman anglophone
contemporain, Michel Morel, ed., Paris: Editions Messene, 103-15.
90   1998c "Marina Warner’s Indigo and Caribbean Discourse," in Parodia, Pastiche, Mimetismo, Paola Mildonian, ed., Roma: Bulzoni Editore, 403-09.
91   1998d "(Un)Writing Empire," in (Un)Writing Empire, Theo D’haen, ed., Cross/Cultures 30,
Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 3-14.
92  1998e "Timothy Findley’s Headhunter, Empire, and Canadian Modernity," in (Un)Writing
Empire, Theo D’haen, ed., Cross/Cultures 30, Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 309-21.
93  1998f "Post-Scripts: Postnational Identities in Contemporary North-American Fiction," in Roman contemporain et identité culturelle en Amérique du nord/Contemporary Fiction and Cultural Identity in North America, Jaap Lintvelt, Richard Saint-Gelais, Will Verhoeven et/and Catherine Raffi-Béroud, ed., Québec: Nota Bene, 29-44
94   1997a "The Western," in International Postmodernism: Theory and Practice, A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Sponsored by the International
Comparative Literature Association, Vol. XI, Bertens, Hans and Douwe Fokkema, ed.,
Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 183-93.
95   1997b "Postmodernisms: from Fantastic to Magic Realist," in International Postmodernism: Theory and Practice, A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages
Sponsored by the International Comparative Literature Association, Vol. XI, Bertens, Hans and Douwe Fokkema, ed., Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 283-93.
96   1997c "What is Post/Colonial Literature, and Why Are They Saying Such Terrible Things
About It?" in Links & Letters 4 (Barcelona, 1997): 11-18.
97   1997d "Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh, or, The Emotional Depths of Postmodernism," in Emotion in Postmodernism, American Studies 74,  Gerhard Hoffmann and Alfred Hornung, ed., Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, 225-35.
98   1997e "Transcending Borders: Faulkner and Alternative Identities," in Cultural Dialogue and Misreading, University of Sydney World Literature series 1, Mabel Lee and Meng Hua,
ed., Sydney: Wild Peony Press, 330-37. (ibid in Chinese version)
99   1997f "Whose Nature is it Anyway? Empire’s Nature — Nature’s Empire," in Nature:
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100 1997g "Deleuze, Guattari, Glissant, and Post-‘American’ Narratives," in Literature and Philosophy, REAL (Research in English and American Literature) 13, Herbert Grabes, ed., Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 387-99.
101 1997h "The Tempest, Now and Twenty Years After: Rachel Ingalls’s Mrs Caliban and Tad
Williams’s Caliban’s Hour," in Constellation Caliban: Figurations of a Character, Nadia Lie
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102 1997i "(Post)Modernity and Caribbean Discourse," in A History of Literature in the Caribbean, volume 3, Cross-Cultural Studies, A Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages Sponsored by the International Comparative Literature Association, Vol. 12, A. James Arnold, ed., Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 303-21.
103 1997j "‘History’, (Counter-)Postmodernism, and Postcolonialism," in EJES (European
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104 1996a "The Return of the Repressed: Ethics and Aesthetics in Postmodern American
Fiction of the 80s," in Ethics and Aesthetics: The Moral Turn of Postmodernism, Hoffmann,
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105 1996b "De moderniteit herschreven: Shakespeare’s The Tempest en Marina Warner’s Indigo," in Weer-Werk: schrijven en terugschrijven in koloniale en postkoloniale literaturen, Theo D’haen, ed., Semaian 15, Leiden: TCZOAO, 149-63.
106 1996c "Subaltern Postmodernism: The Post-modern, The Post-colonial and the Supernatural," in Language and Literature Today: Proceedings of the XIXth Triennial Congress of the International Federation for Modern Languages and Literatures, Brasília: Universidade de Brasília, 290-95.
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108 1996e "American Identities and Postcolonial Theories," in Why Literature Matters: Theories and Functions of Literature, Anglistische Forschungen 241, Rüdiger Ahrens and
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109 1996f "Dis/Coursing Post-Modernism: Science, Magic, (Post)-Modernity," in Canadian
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110 1996g "Postmodernisme en postkolonialisme, of: contra-postmodernisme in de literatuur," in De aanloop tot de millenniumwende 2000: postmodernism revisited, deel 2, Studium
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111 1995a "Boon postmodern?", in De Kantieke Schoolmeester 6/7 (december 1994/januari
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112 1995b "Postmodern Gothic," in Exhibited by Candlelight: Sources and Developments in the Gothic Tradition, Tinkler-Villani, Valeria and Peter Davidson, ed., Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 283-94.
113 1995c "Timothy Findley’s Headhunter and Canadian Modernity," in Canada Cahiers 8: 23-
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114 1995d "Magic Realism and Postmodernism: Decentering Privileged Centers," in Magical
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115 1994a "Translating ‘America’: The Cultural Work of American Popular Literature in the
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116 1994b " ‘Countering’ Postmodernism," in REAL (Research in English and American
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120 1993b "Bruges Group or Common Market? Realism, Postmodernism and Postwar British
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121 1993c "Dis-Placing Satanstoe," in James Fenimore Cooper: New Historical and Literary
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123 1993e "Report," in European Shakespeare: Translating Shakespeare in the Romantic Age,
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125 1992b "Working the American Canon: Reflections of a European Canon-Watcher," in Rewriting the Dream: Reflections on the Changing American Literary Canon, Costerus New Series 83, W.M. Verhoeven, ed., Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 233-44.
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128 1991a "This new, old, good book: America as Image and Example," in The Dutch in North- America: Their immigration and cultural continuity, Rob Kroes and Henk-Otto Neuschäfer, ed., Amsterdam: VU Press, 16-24.
129 1991b "W. B. Yeats and A. Roland Holst: (S)Elective Affinities," in Yeats: An Annual of
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136 1990c "Introduction," in Verbal/Visual Crossings 1880-1980, Theo D’haen, ed.,
Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 9-14.
137 1990d "De hedendaagse Engelse roman: gesprekken met voorgangers," in Traditie & Progressie: Handelingen van het 40ste Nederlands Filologencongres, ‘s-Gravenhage: SDU
Uitgeverij, 33-39.
138 1990e "Dis-Placing Satanstoe," DQR 20,3 (1990), 199-214.
139 1990f "Chicago als literair brandpunt in de periode 1880-1920," in Americana 4,1/2 (zomer
1990), 115-30.

140 1990g "The Decentering of English Literature," Proceedings of the XIIth Congress of the
International Comparative Literature Association: Space and Boundaries, Munich 1988, vol
4, Munich: Iudicium, 207-11.
141 1990h "Timothy Findley, Magic Realism and the Canadian Postmodern," in Multiple
Voices: Recent Canadian Fiction, Proceedings of the IVth International Symposium of the
Brusels Centre for Canadian Studies, 29 November 1 December 1989, Jeanne Delbaere, ed., Sydney, Mundelstrup and Coventry: Dangaroo Press, 217-33.
142 1990i "John Barth. Verguisd en verafgood," in Modern, postmodern: over auteurs en hun
romans, Roland Duhamel and Jaak de Vos, ed., Leuven/Apeldoorn: Garant, 1990, 133-
44.
143 1990j "Inleiding," in Herinnering, herkomst, herschrijving: Koloniale en post-koloniale literaturen, Theo D’haen, ed., Semaian 4, Leiden: Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuid-
Oost Azië en Oceanië van de Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1990, 1-17.
144 1990k "Van Vrijdag tot vrijheid: kolonialisme en post-kolonialisme in de Engelstalige letteren," in Herinnering, herkomst, herschrijving: Koloniale en post-koloniale literaturen, Theo D’haen, ed., Semaian 4, Leiden: Vakgroep Talen en Culturen van Zuid-Oost Azië en Oceanië van de Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 1990, 117-27.
145 1990"The Dutch l Byron: Byron in Dutch Translation," in Centennial Hauntings: Pope,
Byron and Eliot in the Year 88, C.C. Barfoot and Theo D’haen, ed., Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi 1990, 232-51.
146 1990m Chinese translation of 1986d in ditto translation of the book in which the article first
appeared, with Peking University Press.
147 1990n "Gone With the Shield of Achilles? English and American Literature at Dutch Universities" (originally in DQR 18,4 (1988): 289-300, republished) in Something Understood: Studies in Anglo-Dutch Literary Translation, Westerweel, Bart and Theo D’haen, ed., Amsterdam/Atlanta: Rodopi, 1990, 23-34.
148 1989a "De Bestudering van de Amerikaanse literatuur in Nederland," in Americana 3,1 (zomer 1989), 4-20.
149 1989b "Paul van Ostaijen’s Modernism: A Pain that Encompasses All of Man’s
Consciousness," in Neophilologus 73,4 (October 1989), 481-500.
150 1989c "The Vanishing Anglist?" in Literatuurwetenschap in Nederland in de veranderende
Europese context, Stichting literatuurwetenschap, Den Haag, 57-64.
151 1989d "Genre Conventions in Postmodern Fiction," in Convention and Innovation, Theo D’haen, Rainer Grübel and Helmuth Lethen, ed., Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 405-20.
152 1989e "The Rise and Decline of Conventions," in Convention and Innovation, Theo
D’haen, Rainer Grübel and Helmuth Lethen, ed., Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John
Benjamins, vii-xxii (with Helmut Lethen and Rainer Gruebel).
153 1989f "Frames and Boundaries," in Poetics Today 10,2 (Summer 1989), 429-37.
154 1988a "William Boyd," in Post-War Literatures in English.
155 1988b « History as Postmodern (Im)possibility, » in Les Fictions du reél dans le monde
Anglo-Américain de 1960 a 1980, Colloque GRAAT-CERCA Université de Tours, Publications des groupes de recherche anglo-américaines de l’université Francois-
Rabelais de Tours no. 4, Maryvonne Menget and Jean-Paul Régis, ed., 1988: 105-15.
156 1988c "Zwart schrijven: autobiografische tradities in de Afro- Amerikaanse roman," in
Americana 2,1: 111-26.
157 1988d "Desmond Hogan and Ireland’s Postmodern Past," in History and Violence in
Anglo-Irish Literature, Joris Duytschaever and Geert Lernout, ed., Amsterdam: Rodopi, 79-
84; also in Anglo-Irish Literature and Irish Literature: Aspects of Language and Culture, Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature Held at Uppsala University, 4-7 August 1986, 2 vols, Birgit Bramsbäck and Martin Groghan, ed., Uppsala University Press, vol. II, 137-142.

158 1988e "Gone With the Shield of Achilles? English and American Literature at Dutch Universities" in DQR 18,4 (1988): 289-300, republished in Something Understood: Studies in Anglo-Dutch Literary Translation, Westerweel, Bart and Theo D’haen, ed., Amsterdam/Atlanta, 1990, 23-34.
159 1987a "Postmodern Fiction: Form and Function," in Neophilologus 71/1 (1987), 144-53.
160 1987b "Populaire genreconventies bij de postmodernen," in Restant 15/1 (1987), 109-22.
161 1987c "Translation, Adaptation, Inspiration: The Creative Reception of Anglo-Irish Works into Dutch Literature," in Literary Crosscurrents: Ireland, England, and the World, W. Zach
and H. Kosok, ed., vol. 1, Reception and Translation, Studies in English and Comparative
Literature, Tübingen: G. Narr Verlag, 1987, 81-89.
162 1987d "Popular Genre Conventions in Postmodern Fiction: The Case of the Western," in Exploring Postmodernism, Matei Calinescu and Douwe Fokkema, ed., Amsterdam: John Benjamins B.V., 1987, 161-174.
163 1987e « Stolen Magic, » in Les cahiers du scénario 2/3 (hiver/été 1987, special double issue on Le Collier de Sybilla, a script by A. Delvaux & M. Croes), 193-196.
164 1986a "Introduction," in Linguistics and the Study of Literature, Theo D’haen, ed.
Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1-6.
165 1986b "Utopia/Dystopia in the Science Fiction of Burgess and Lessing," in Just The Other
Day: Essays on the Suture of the Future, L. De Vos, ed., Antwerpen: Exa, 1986, 315-27.
166 1986c "Postmodernism in American Fiction and Art," in Approaching Postmodernism, Douwe Fokkema and Hans Bertens, ed., Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins,
1986, 211-31.
167 1986d "Hoe Engels is de Recente Engelse Roman?," in De Vlaamse Gids 86/4 (juli- augustus 1986), 39-44.
168 1985a "Apocalypse Now: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Postmodern American Fiction," in
European Contributions to American Studies VIII, Rob Kroes, ed., Amsterdam: VU Press,
189-201 (together with Hans Bertens).
169 1985b "Het Postmodernisme in Amerika: Kunst en Proza," in Restant 12/3 (najaar 1984),
31-48.
170 1985c "John Clellon Holmes’s Intertextual Beat," in Beat Indeed!, Rudi Horemans, ed.,
Antwerp: Exa, 163-71.
171 1984a "Language and Power in Orwell and Burgess," Essays from Oceania and Eurasia: George Orwell and 1984, Papers Presented at the Orwell Conference in Antwerp 11-
13/11/1983, B.J. Suykerbuyk, ed., Antwerpen: Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen-Exa- Progressef, 43-56.
172 1984b "Frames and Fractures: The Novel and Its Discontents," in Pragmatics and
Stylistics, W. van Peer andJ. Renkema, ed., Leuven/ Amersfoort: Acco (Louvain University
Press), 133-44.
173 1983 "Taal en macht bij Orwell en Burgess," Bzzletin 111 (december 1983), 45-50 & 60
(slightly revised Dutch version of 1984a).
174 1982 "John Cheever and the Development of the American Novel," Critical Essays on
John Cheever, R.G. Collins, ed., Boston: G.K. Hall & Co., 272-78 (revised version of
1978c).
175 1981 "Belgian Literature: in Flemish" in Encyclopedia of World Literature in the Twentieth
Century, New York: Frederick Ungar, 219-223.
176 1980a "Fictional Forms with Special Reference to John Fowles, Report on the English
Literature Seminar 1979, Amsterdam: The British Council in the Netherlands, 1980, pp.
68-81.
177 1980b "Over John Gardner," De Revisor 7:5, 12-14.
178 1979a "The Novel as Act and Experience, "Tijdschrift van de Vrije Universiteit van Brussel
20:2, 72-95.
179 1979b "Fowles, Lodge, and the Problematic Novel," Dutch Quarterly Review of Anglo- American Literature 9:3, 162-75.

180 1978a "Robinson Crusoe and La Jalousie," Revue des langues vivantes/ Tijdschrift voor levende talen 44:1, 28-36.
181 1978b "The Liberation of the Samsas," Neophilologus 42:2, 262-78.
182 1978c "John Cheever en de Amerikaanse roman," Maatstaf juli, 61-67.
183 1978d "Het grimmige proza van John Hawkes," Maatstaf aug/sept, 122-28.

Reviews

Book reviews in Revue Belge de philologie et d’histoire/Belgisch tijdschrift voor geschiedenis en filologie, Poetics Today, Revue de littérature comparée, Canadian Journal of Comparative Literature, Comparative Literature, Journal of Modern Literature, Target: International Journal of Translation Studies, Forum der Letteren, Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature, American Studies in Scandinavia, The Low Countries, Commonwealth, Ons Erfdeel, and the Belgian Dutch-language daily De Standaard.

Invited Guest Lectures

The Erasmus Lectures at Harvard, 2007: “Minor Culture/Major Context: Dutch-Language Literature in a Globalizing World” (13 Nov. 2007: “Unwritten Empires? Dutch and Belgian colonial empires in the context of postcolonial studies”; 20 Nov. 2007: “Shadow Modernisms? Early twentieth-century Dutch and Flemish writing in the context of Modernism”; 7 Dec. 2007: “European Peripheries? The possible [or impossible] future of Dutch-language literature in the context of a unifying Europe”).

Harvard, Pennsylvania State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Lisbon, Porto, Braga, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Uppsala, Helsinki, University College London, School for Advanced Study of the University of London, Kent at Canterbury, Leuven, Ghent, Antwerp, Louvain-la-Neuve, Leyden, Utrecht, Groningen, Amsterdam, Amsterdam Free University, Roosevelt Study Center Middelburg (Netherlands), Göttingen, Mainz, Giessen, Bonn, JFK Institute Freie Universität Berlin, Vienna, Sorbonne, Paris XII (Val de Marne), Santiago de Compostela, León, Bologna, Rome I, Rome III, Siena, Triëste, Wroclaw, Bucharest, Belgrade, Rio de Janeiro UFF, Tsinghua University, Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Finance and Economics University, Nanjing University.  At a number of these universities guest lectures on various occasions.



Papers at symposia, colloquia, conferences

Keynote/Invited Speaker: Westfield College, Massachusetts (1975); University of Massachusetts (1976); Hoger Instituut voor Vertalers en Tolken Gent (1978); Amsterdam Royal Dutch Academy/N.W.O. Stichting Literatuurwetenschap Symposion (April 1989); Leiden American Literature Series on Chicago (April 1990); Leiden Symposion on Colonial and ex-Colonial Literatures (May 1990); "Indische Letteren" Symposium Leiden (June 1992);  "The Other Postmodernism", Würzburg University (6-10 January 1993); Giessen University Symposium on "Contemporary Critical Discourse and Aesthetics: The United States and Europe" (Rauischholzhausen, 9-11 June 1993); "Marina Warner's Indigo and Caribbean Discourse" University of Venice Colloquium on "Parodie, Pastiche, Mimetisme" (13-15 October 1993); "The Science of Postmodernism" Ecole Normale Supérieure Colloquium, Paris (6-7 June 1994); "Re-Presenting the Caribbean," Colloquium Groupe d'Etudes sur le Récit Anglais Contemporain, Université de Nancy 2 (18-19 November 1994); "Timothy Findley's Headhunter and Canadian Modernity," ACSN Colloquium Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (16 December 1994); "`America' and `Deleuze'," Colloquium France-Amérique, la pensée voyageuse/France-US, A Translatlantic Exchange of Ideas (University of Amsterdam 15-17
December 1994); "Faulkner, (Post)Nationalism, (Post)Colonialism, and (Post)Modernity," Peking
University Symposium on Cultural Dialogue and Cultural Misreading (October 1995); "Salman

Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh, or: The Emotional Depths of Postmodernism," University of Mainz (January 1996); " `Deleuze and Guattari' and `America' ," Symposion on Philosophy and Literature, Un. Giessen (June 1996); "Whose Nature Is It Anyway? Empire's Nature — Nature's Empire," Colloquium on Literature's Nature, Odense University (August 1996); "Postmodern Noir," Un. Mainz- Würzburg-Giessen Colloquium  on  Postmodernism  and  the  Fin-de-Siècle  (Jan.  1998);  "(Post-
)Colonial Literatures and Postmodern Historiography," Un. of Rome/La Sapienza Colloquium on New Directions in an Ancient Discipline: The Comparative History of Literary Cultures (2-3 June 1998); "Revolutionary Crossings: Caribbean Identities and Forms," Un. Athens, Second International Congress of the Greek Association for General and Comparative Literature (6-11 November 1998); "The Representational Logic of Post-Americanist Narratives," Un. Würzburg Symposium on Representation and Decoration in a Postmodern Age (7-10 January 1999); "Caribbean Identities and Caribbean Forms," NIAS (4 March 1999); “Globalisering, identiteit en (post)koloniale literatuur,” OSL Symposium on Identity and Locality (24 March 2000, Utrecht);  “Murder and Modernism,” Un. Porto symposium on detective writing (23-25 november 2000); “Public Bodies, Private I/Eyes, and “US” Identities,” University of Porto Symposium on Corpo e identidades (8-9 Mars 2001); “Stranger in a Strange Land: Jamal Mahjoub’s The Carrier,” Leiden/Amsterdam Conference on Migrant Cartographies (22-24 March 2001); “Third Space, Third Way, Third Class,” Beijing Normal University Symposium on Literary Theory (4-9 August 2001); “The Cultural Turn in Literary Studies,” K.U.Leuven (10 May 2003); “Agents of Empowerment: The Cultural Work of Contemporary American Crime Fiction,” Brazilian American Studies Association Conference on As Faces da Literatura: Representações de Realidades/The Faces of Literature: Representing Realities, Un. Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (10-11 October 2005); “On How Not To Be Lisbon If You Want To Be European,” ACT 14, The Great Lisbon Earthquake: Changing Things, University of Lisbon (2-3
November 2005); “European Modernism, American Theory”, Modernism Symposium Organized for the Co-ordinating Committee of the ICLA, University of Antwerp (15-16 June 2006); “Twain’s Modernities,” Symposium on “The American South in Europe, Europe in the American South,”
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna (28 Sept.- 01 Oct. 2006); “World Literature,
Postcolonial Politics,” Symposium on Postcolonialism at the  Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (18-19
November 2006);  “How Many Canons Do We Need? World Literature, National Literature, European Literature,” National Literatures in the Age of Globalization: The Issue of the Canon Symposium Bucharest University (29 October-1 November 2008); “The Ends of Postcolonialism,” Postcolonial Symposium Leyden University (28 November 2008);  “Toward a Non-Eurocentric History of World Literature,” ICLA Symposium Brussels Free University (26-28 August 2009); “Going Caribbean, Going Global,” Caribbean Symposium Lisbon University (November 2009); “European Literature After 1500,”LAWH Symposium Koç University Istanbul (17-21 June 2010); “Visions of European Fathers: The New Comparative Literature,” Literary Studies Facing European Literature Conference Bucharest University (15-16 April 2011); “World Literature,” First International World Literature Association Conference, Peking University, Beijing (29 July-2 August 2011); “The End of Postcolonialism?” Amsterdam University Symposium (28 October 2011); “Minor Literatures, Major Languages, Multiple Legacies,” IULM Libera Università di Lingue e Communicazione (18-20 October
2012); “When ‘World Literature’ Becomes ‘World’ Literature,” 2012 ELLAK (English Language and Literature Association of Korea) International Conference on "Border, Translation, and What Then?: Mapping "Convergence” in English Language and Literature and the Humanities," Busan, Korea (11-
14 December 2012); “To be Flemish in order to become European” – August Vermeylen and Flemish (Belgian Dutch) Literature,” Symposium on “Les écrivains qui ont inventé la littérature européenne, » Innsbruck, Austria (15-16 February 2013), “Navigating Cultures: J. Slauerhoff and World Literature,”
Conference on “Culture: In Quest of a New Paradigm” at Belgrade University, Serbia (18-20 March
2013), “Latin American Literature Between World Literature and Géocritique,”  Conference on Latin
American Literature and World Literature at University of Cologne (29-31 January  2014), “World Literature: Boon or Bane?”, Conference on Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies: East and West in Dialogue at University of London School of Advanced Studies (8 & 9 May 2014).

Speaker: Amsterdam, British Council Conference (1978); Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen (1979); Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht (1980); Salamanca (1982); Katholieke Hogeschool Tilburg (ZWO Workshop
1983); Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen (Orwell Conference 1983); Amsterdam (NASA Conference
1984); Graz (IASAIL Conference 1984); Budapest (FILMM Conference 1984); Utrecht (ZWO Workshop on Postmodernism, 1984); Leiden, (1984, 1984, 1985); Rijksuniversitair Centrum Antwerpen (1984); Paris (Sorbonne, ICLA Congress 1985); Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen (Irish Literature Conference
1986); Uppsala (IASAIL Conference 1986); Tours (Colloques GRAAT 1987); Bellagio (Rockefeller Foundation Center 1987); Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen (1988); Munchen (ICLA 1988); Leiden (2nd Leyden October Conference, 1988); Leiden (40e Filologencongres December 1988); Brandeis (ACLA
1989);  NASA/ACSN  1989  (Roosevelt  Study  Center/Middelburg); Groningen  Cooper  Conference
(October 1989); IASAIL Kyoto (July 1990); Universität Giessen (May 1991); IASAIL Leiden (July 1991); CERA-Chair in Translation Studies Seminar Supervisor (Catholic University Leuven July 1991); ESSE inaugural conference Norwich 4-8 (September 1991); Fifth Leiden October Conference (October 1991); Seville EAAS Conference (April 1992); Groningen Retirement Celebration of Jan Bakker (May 1992): Leiden Conference "By Sea and By Air: Five Centuries of Interaction between the Low Countries and the Americas" (June 1992); NASA Conference "Reception of American Mass Culture in Europe"(June
1992); "On Defining Postmodernism" Brussel BVAVLW (June 1992); "Translating America" for American Studies Association (Costa Mesa, L.A., California November 1992); Netherlands American Studies Association meeting 1993 at Roosevelt Study Center in Middelburg (2-4 June 1993); "Subaltern Postmodernism", xixth FILLM Conference Brasilia (22-30 August 1993); "Caribbean Magic: Re- Gendering the Caribbean," University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, xivth ICLA Congress (15-20
August 1994); "Post-Scripts: Postnational Identities and Contemporary North-American Fiction," Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (mei 1995); “The Postmodern Enigma of Paul Auster," Colloque sur Le Secret: Motif et Moteur de la littérature, Un. Catholique de Louvain (March 1996); "North of West: Findley and his Classics," Un. Gent Symposium on Ré-écritures périphériques/Border Rewritings (March 1998); “ ‘Othering’ Modernism,” K.U. Leuven (14-15 November 2002), “Detecting Agency: Negotiating Ethnicity Through Popular Literature,” MESEA (Thessaloniki, 20-23 May 2004), “Cultural Memories, Literary Forms, Caribbean Revolutions,” Lille II & K.U.Leuven-KULAK Conference on Caribbean Interfaces (19-
21 May 2005), “Transmigrating Theories: American Theories and European Literature,” Second IASA Congress, Ottawa (18-21 August 2005), “Marlowe’s Japanese Mirror,” American Studies Association, Oakland, CA (12-15 October 2006); “How far is Europe from here? Forging European literature,” ACLA Harvard (27-19 March 2009), “Whose World Literature is It Anyway?” ACLA New Orleans (1-4 April
2010), “Major Histories, Minor Literatures and World Authors,” MLA Boston (3-7 January 2013), “Comparing World Literatures,” ICLA Paris (19-24 July 2013), “Capitalizing (on) World Literature,” ACLA New York (21-23 March 2014), “The Cosmodern Turn,” ISSN Boston (27-29 April 2014).

Participant: Salzburg American Studies Seminar (1985). Participant in USIA 6-week American Studies tour of the US (1986).

Projects funded by third parties


1987 – First international Word & Image Congress – NWO (Dutch National Science Foundation)
1989-2002 – Leyden October Conferences (NWO, Rodopi, KNAW – jointly approx. € 3.000 each year over 14 years)
1991 – IASAIL Conference - NWO (Dutch National Science Foundation)
1997 – ICLA Conference - NWO (Dutch National Science Foundation), ICLA, NVAVL (€ 18.000)
1997-2002 - NWO (Dutch National Science Foundation) project on Cultural Identity and Postmodern
Writing, three postdocs and 5 PhD positions at 3 Dutch universities (approx. € 1.400.000)
2003 – IASA Conference - NWO (Dutch National Science Foundation), American Embassy
2005 – HERMES Summer School at Leuven – FWO (Belgian Science Foundation, € 3.000)
2007 – “Literature for Europe?”  Conference at Vadstena, Sweden – ESF-LIU (European Science
Foundation and Linköping University, € 46.000) and Academia Europaea (€ 3.480)
2010 - “History of European literature” – Workshop at NIAS, Wassenaar, (NIAS, € 15.000)

2010 – Academia Europaea Conference, Leuven – University of Leuven (€ 37.000, Academia
Europaea € 15.000)
2011 – “Writing a World History of Literature” – FWO (Belgian Science Foundation, € 3.000) and
KVAB (Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium, € 2.500)
2014 – “The Humanities and Social Sciences, Globalization, and China” – Academia Europaea (£
15.000) and Tsinghua University (approx.. € 10.000)
2015 – “Literary Transnationalism(s)” – University of Leuven and Université Catholique de Louvain – FWO (Belgian Science Foundation, Flemish Branch, € 3.000) and FNRS (Fond National de Recherche Scientifique, € 3.500)

1978-2015 - Travel and Conference grants from Utrecht University, Leiden university, Leuven university, NWO, KNAW, FWO, Fulbright Committee, Academia Europaea, etc.


Courses Taught

Vienna:  Theoretical  Approaches  to  World  Literature,  Postcolonial  Fiction,  American  Popular
Literature from a World Perspective.
Harvard: Postcolonial Fiction, International Modernism.
Sorbonne: Postcolonial Fiction.
Tsinghua : Comparative Literature and World Literature.
Joint Belgian University MA Program in American Studies at the Royal Library, Brussels: American Prizewinners, Popular Fiction in America.
Leuven University: Introduction to Fiction, Early American Literature, Classic American Fiction,
Modern  American  Literature,  American  Prizewinners,  Contemporary  American  Crime  Fiction, Postmodernism, Postcolonialism, Postnational Literatures, Migrant Literatures, Popular America. Leyden University: Introduction to Literature, Renaissance Literature, Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Modernism, Modern Poetry, Postmodernism, Post-Academic Course Postmodernism, American Literature from the Civil War to World War I, American Literature of the Twentieth Century, Literature of the American South, Faulkner, The Black Experience in American Literature, The Long American Poem, America in 1980s Fiction, Orientalism in English Literature, Colonial and Post- Colonial Literatures, India in Writing, The Empire Writes Back, South-African Fiction, Literature from the Caribbean, Postmodernism and Postcolonialism, Between Two Worlds, Flemish Literature, Translation Studies, Unwriting Empire, American Crime Fiction.
University of Utrecht: courses in Victorian Literature, Modern English Literature, Post-1945 English Fiction and Society, American Literature since the Civil War, American Literature before the Civil War, Postmodernism in American Literature, Faulkner, Modern British and American Poetry, Translation Studies, Post-Academic Course Postmodernism, Joint course on Shakespeare, Joint course on Stylistics (Pragmatics and Frame Analysis), Victorian to Modern.
University of Massachusetts: The Short Story, courses in translation (French - English).
Vanderbilt University: Introduction to World Literature.