Irene J. F. de Jong

Irene J. F. de Jong is a Full Professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam since 2003. Her work focuses on classical literature and literary scholarship, with a particular emphasis on ancient Greek texts.

• Full Professor of Ancient Greek, University of Amsterdam (2003–present)
• Research fellow, University of Amsterdam (1998–2002)
• Postdoc, University of Amsterdam (1988–1998)

Her research spans the fields of Classics and Ancient Greek, with notable contributions to literary analysis. Awards include the C.C. Hodshon Prize and the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation study-prize.

• Fellow of the British Academy (2022)
• Foreign member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2019)
• Member, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
• C.C. Hodshon Prize (1994)
• Praemium Erasmianum Foundation study-prize (1988)

She has held academic positions continuously since 1978, including roles as a research assistant, teacher of Classics, and NWO PhD research scholarship recipient.