Joanne van der Woude

Joanne van der Woude is an Assistant Professor at the Department of American Studies, University of Groningen. She previously held a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University’s Society of Fellows (2007–2008).

Her research focuses on colonial intersections in early American literature, aesthetics, and political resistance, with interests in digital humanities, book history, and transnational cultural studies.

• Fields: American Literature to 1800, Comparative Colonialism, Imperial Poetics
• Current project: No More Heroes: Violence and Resistance in New World Poetry
• Awards: Rosalind Franklin Fellowship, Vidi Grant