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Professor Veerle Fraeters is a distinguished scholar in the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication at Utrecht University's Faculty of Humanities, where she specializes in Middle Dutch literary and cultural history. Her academic career spans decades of research focused on mystical literature, visionary texts, and female authorship in the medieval Low Countries.
Her research interests sit at the intersection of philology, literary studies, cultural history, and religious studies, with particular expertise in medieval mysticism, especially the works of the thirteenth-century mystic Hadewijch. She has conducted significant research on the vision genre, female spiritual authority, and the reception of medieval literature in modern contexts.
Professor Fraeters' recent publications demonstrate consistent scholarly output across multiple dimensions of medieval studies, with a strong emphasis on textual analysis, manuscript traditions, and the cultural contexts of religious literature. Her work frequently explores the intersections between mystical experience, literary form, and historical context, with particular attention to how spiritual texts were transmitted and transformed across centuries.
She has supervised seven doctoral dissertations across disciplines including literature, history, and philosophy, focusing on diverse textual genres such as mysticism, miracle books, and travel literature. Her current research includes projects on liturgical intertext in thirteenth-century female visionary mysticism, following her 2022 residency at Harvard University's Medieval Studies Institute.
Professor Fraeters actively participates in scholarly networks including the Koninklijke Academie voor Taal- en Letterkunde (Royal Academy of Language and Literature) and serves as Chair of the Mystical Theology Network since 2011. She teaches courses on Middle Dutch literature and culture, medieval literature, and mystical authors, contributing significantly to both graduate and undergraduate education.
