Prof. Dr. Josep Theodoor Leerssen
* 1955
Korrespondierende Mitglieder (2013)
Geistes- und Gesellschaftswissenschaftliche Klasse
em. Professor für moderne europäische Literatur
Research Interests:
- nationalism and the history of national movements
- the survival of 19th-century cultural nationalism as 20th-century banal nationalism and 21st-century ethnopopulism
- the rhetoric and history of cultural and national stereotyping and ethnic characterization (“imagology”)
- the history of border regions and cultural minorities, especially in the Low Countries
- the history of the humanities since 1800, especially philology
- digital humanities: the database-assisted capture, analysis and visualization of complex communicative networks, cultural practices and ideological diffusion patterns
Fachgebiete:
Literaturwissenschaft allgemein
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Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft,
Literaturgeschichte
Wikipedia-Link: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joep_Leerssen