Literature without Frontiers

Cornelis van der Haven, PhD (2008, Utrecht University) is Associate Professor at Ghent University in the field of early modern Dutch literature. He published widely about Dutch and German literary history of the 17th and 18th centuries, with a strong focus on the role of literature in shaping cultural and social identities.

Jan Bloemendal, PhD (1997, Utrecht University) is senior researcher at the Huygens Institute and Professor of Neo-Latin at the Ruhr University Bochum. He published widely on Neo-Latin, drama and Erasmus, including (with Howard B. Norland), Neo-Latin Drama and Theatre in Early Modern Europe (Leiden, 2013).

Youri Desplenter, PhD (2004, Ghent University) is Professor of Historical Dutch Literature (Middle Ages) at Ghent University. He has published on Middle Dutch religious literature, including De Bijbel in de Lage Landen. Elf eeuwen van vertalen (Heerenveen: 2015; co-ed.).

James A. Parente, Jr., PhD (1979, Yale University) is Emeritus Professor of German, Scandinavian and Dutch literature. He is the author of Religious Drama and the Humanist Tradition: Christian Theater in Germany and the Netherlands, 1500-1680 (Leiden, 1987), and has published widely on early modern drama and prose, Neo-Latin literature and transnational literary history.