Dr. E.J. (Evert) van Leeuwen

Position:
  • Lecturer
Expertise:
  • English language and culture


Telephone number: +31 (0)71 527 4117
E-Mail: e.j.van.leeuwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department: Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Cultural Disciplines, Moderne Engelstalige letterkunde
Office Address: Witte Singel-complex
P.N. van Eyckhof 4
2311 BV Leiden
Room number 1.06b


Fields of interest

Anglo-American fantastic fiction from the eigtheenth-century to the present (gothic, horror, science fiction); ecocriticsm in theory and practice; ecopsychology; philosophies of magic and the supernatural; the history of popular culture genres.
Favourite authors: Daniel Defoe, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Nathaniel Hawthorne, H.G. Wells, Clifford Simak, Shirley Jackson, Ursula Le Guin, Theodore Roszak, Peter Marshall, Stephen King.
Favourite filmmakers: Val Guest, Robert Wise, Roger Corman, George Romero, John Carpenter, Alex Cox.
Favourite stars: Vincent Price and Alice Cooper.

Research

Eighteenth and Nnneteenth century Literature, the Supernatural and the Fantastic Current Project: An Anthology of Eighteenth Century Graveyard Poetry

Curriculum Vitae

2000-2001 MPhil:  In the Gothic Imagination (University of Stirling, Scotland)
2000-2005 PhD candidate  (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
2005-2007 Junior Lecturer
2007-        Lecturer

Teaching activities

BA courses in English Literature from the Renaissance up to the Modernists.
MA courses on varioius topics within my field of interest.

Last Modified: 21-07-2011