| Animals in Dutch Travel Writing, 1800-present Rick Honings is Scaliger-hoogleraar aan de Universiteit Leiden. Momenteel werkt hij aan zijn NWO Vidi-project Voicing the Colony. Travelers in the Dutch East Indies, 1800-1945. In 2019 verscheen zijn samen met Lotte Jensen geschreven boek Romantici en revolutionairen (Bert Bakker).Esther Op de Beek is an assistant professor in Modern Dutch Literature at Leiden University. She obtained her PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen, within the NWO-funded research project The Best Intentions, Literary Criticism in the Netherlands 1945-2005. Her research examines modern Dutch travel literature, literary criticism, and the circulation of happiness narratives in literature. She is a member of the editorial board of Nederlandse Letterkunde and delivered Cees Nooteboom. Avenue - 15 jaar wereldliteratuur (2013) and, together with Jos Muijres, Op de hielen: Opstellen over recente Nederlanse en Vlaamse literatuur (2014). |