PhD research
My PhD research concerns historical affinities with Desiderius Erasmus in Rotterdam. I study how appropriation of Erasmus in the past has changed his image today. More broadly, I am interested in the interplay between the affordances of history and historical appropriation. My dissertation consists of various case studies and methodological inquiries:
- Erasmus and Orangism, or a reception history of a drunk joke (published in Early Modern Low Countries)
- Erasmus and the Batavians, or a deployment of stereotypes (published in Dutch Crossing)
- Erasmus and the University, or the effects of eponyms (accepted in History of Universities)
- Erasmus the Statue, or the affordances of a heritage site (presented at AGRELITA conference)
- Erasmus the Collection, or the sustainability of documentary heritage (published in Erasmus Studies)
- Erasmus on Display (exhibited in the University Library)
Previous projects
- Smell references in early modern Dutch texts (Published by Association for Computational Linguistics and in a blogpost)
- The Antwerp Polyglot Bible on a mission in Goa
- Amsterdam drawings on East-Asian paper (in revision for conference proceedings)
- The ‘Orient’, Japan and the Wiener Secession
- Export and Impact of Dutch prints in Japan, Persia and Spanish America
- Cheese and Dutch identity visualized (published in Kaas = NL?)
- Recurring motives in Ghirlandaio Carpets
- Recht en Onrecht by Barbara Broekman in the law faculty
- The Quran of Thomas Hees
- Watermarks and Dutch artists in Rome