Eddy Verbaan
University Teacher in Dutch, Faculty of Arts
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Teaching Summary
I am teaching the following modules:
- R21124 Culture and Society of the Low Countries
- R21125 History of the Low Countries
- R21126 Dutch Language 1
- R22252 Contemporary Dutch Fiction
- R22253 Dutch Language 2
- R23266 Dutch Language 3
Research Summary
In 2011, I published De woonplaats van de faam (Where Fame Resides). It is a study of the way cities are portrayed textually and visually in the early modern period, by exploring the strikingly… read more
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Current Research
In 2011, I published De woonplaats van de faam (Where Fame Resides). It is a study of the way cities are portrayed textually and visually in the early modern period, by exploring the strikingly high number of 'descriptions of cities' or 'surveys' that were published in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. It mainly focuses on the conceptual foundations of these 'surveys', which are found, amongst others, in the disciplines of literature and rhetoric; history writing and antiquarianism; geography and cartography; and travel writing and travel method. My thesis is the first in-depth study of the genre in the Dutch Republic, and is innovative in its highly interdisciplinary approach. It also brings a new comparative perspective, by involving comparable French and English urban descriptions, most notably John Stow's Survay of London from 1598.
My main research interests are early modern intellectual history, the history of science and scholarship, urban history, historiography, and memory studies. I am particularly interested in representations of cities and urbanity in the Dutch Republic, England, France and elsewhere in early modern Europe.
I have an additional interest in didactics, especially the teaching of culture, history and literature, and autonomous and blended learning.
Since 2010 I am Secretary to the Association for Low Countries Studies (ALCS).
Between 2005 and 2010 I was external examiner to the Department of Dutch at University College London (UCL).