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Dr. Agnes Andeweg serves as Associate Professor in Literature and cluster chair at University College Utrecht, part of Utrecht University. Her academic home is within the Gender Studies department of the Humanities Institute for Cultural Inquiry. She has established herself as a prominent scholar with extensive publications spanning from the 1990s to the present, with significant recent output in 2023-2025.
Andeweg specializes in modern Dutch literature, gothic fiction (1800-present), and Dutch cultural history and memory, with particular focus on gender, sexuality, colonial past, and national identity. Her research examines how literature shapes collective and individual identities, with recent work exploring hospitality in Ali Smith's works and the role of art, literature, and culture in the Dutch LGBT+ movement (1960-1995). She has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches, particularly in the Scholarship of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning (SoITL).
Analysis of her recent publications reveals a strong thematic focus on contemporary British literature (particularly Ali Smith's work), transnational feminist movements in non-English speaking Europe, Dutch LGBTQ+ cultural history, and postcolonial studies. Her scholarship consistently bridges literary analysis with cultural and social history, demonstrating how literature functions as both reflection and agent of social change.
Scientific Awards:
- Essay prize of the International Society for Cultural History (2014) for 'Manifestations of the Flying Dutchman: on materializing ghosts and (not) remembering the colonial past'
- Chair of the jury for the P.C. Hooft prize for narrative prose (2022), awarded to Arnon Grunberg
Andeweg actively contributes to educational innovation, having initiated the first One Book One Campus project in the Netherlands at University College Utrecht in 2018, which expanded to Utrecht University-wide in 2022 and 2024 with works by Bernardine Evaristo and Anton de Kom. She serves as a researcher and supervisor in the NWA-project LeesEvolutie and was a visiting researcher at the Digital Humanities Lab of the University of Basel in Fall 2024.
