Doctoral fellow modern Dutch literature
Academic Positions • Stockholm, Stockholm County • Posted July 12, 2026
About the Role
The KU Leuven Research Group Dutch Literature gathers junior and senior researchers with a wide variety of interests and expertise around the teaching and critical study of literature from the Low Countries, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which literature functions across different historical periods and cultural contexts. The research group also examines Dutch literature within an international context.
Project
Sense/ory Negotiations. Special Poetry Editions in Flemish literary culture (1900-2020) is a doctoral project funded by FWO Flanders and supervised by Prof. Linde De Potter (KU Leuven). This project studies the role of special editions of poetry in Flemish literary culture (19002020) and examines how their materiality shapes the experience of literary reading. Unlike mainstream editions, special poetry editions foreground their material form, offering a unique vantage point for study...