Dr Henriette Louwerse

Senior Lecturer in Dutch

email : h.louwerse@sheffield.ac.uk

I was born in De Lier, a village near The Hague in the Netherlands. I studied English Literature at the University of Groningen and moved to the UK in 1990, when I started working in the Department of Germanic Studies here in Sheffield, first as a Lector and then as a Lecturer in Dutch. I did my PhD at the University of Hull on the literary works of the contemporary Dutch author Hafid Bouazza.

My research interests focus on migration and literature, issues of multiculturalism, and women´s writing in Dutch. I have recently finished a monograph exploring the relationship between literature and individual and collective identity formation. In addition to my academic writing, I am a regular author of reviews, in particularly for Passionate, a Dutch literary magazine for new trends and new writers.

List of Publications

Seminars, Lectures and Public Engagements

Teaching Activities and Responsibilities

• Director of Studies in Dutch
• Year Abroad Coordinator for Dutch
• I teach the Beginners Language Modules GER108/8 and GER217/18
• I teach literature and culture modules for Level 2 (GER228) and Level 3(GER314)
• I contribute to the MA in English Literature in the Postcolonial track (GER601)
• Within the collaboration Virtual Dutch, I offer a study block on the Distance Learning Postgraduate Diploma in Dutch Cultural Studies: Identity in Transnational Contexts

In 2008 I was awarded a Senate Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning.

citybooks Sheffield

During 2011 and 2012 I am the local partner for Sheffield University for citybooks, a large EU-funded European project coordinated by the Flemish-Dutch House deBuren. In 2012 Sheffield will be one of fifteen proud European cities with an alternative travel guide to its name. Two Dutch, one Flemish and two local authors as well as a photographer and a video artist will create an artists' impression of the city. There will be various activities associated with this project. For the latest on citybooks Sheffield, click HERE

Other Activities

• I am one of the editors of the Journal of Dutch Literature
• I am the Honorary Treasurer for the Association for Low Countries Studies (ALCS)
• I am an International Fellow at the department of Contemporary Dutch Literature at the University Utrecht in the Netherlands
• From December 2010 until April 2011 I will present a series of five cultural encounters on Heroes for deBuren univerCity an initiative of the Flemish-Dutch House deBuren in Brussels
• I coordinate the annual Writer in Residence UK Scheme funded by Nederlands Letterenfonds