| Evelyne Shamier is a literary and cultural scholar working at Utrecht University’s cluster Modern Dutch Literature of the Faculty of Humanities, where she is preparing a PhD dissertation on representations of the sea. |
Research project
What can writings on the sea tell us about worldviews and interconnections between humans, nature and culture?
Through the prism of blue ecocriticism, Evelyne Shamier seeks to capture how literary sea-themed texts from and on the various areas around the world where Dutch is a (former) language, relate to the planet’s actual seas – and to the roles these bodies of water play in history and contemporary culture.
Analytical practices on conducting this research entail the advancing of an academic groundwork at the intersections of postcolonial and decolonial theory and the interdisciplinary field of Environmental Humanities. With its initiation of a systematic transcontinental perspective on ‘Neerlandophone’ literatures, this research project employs a new inclusional approach to Dutch Studies.
Bio
Evelyne Shamier teaches courses in literary studies and Dutch literature at Utrecht University, and Dutch language & culture (NT2) at University College Utrecht. Her resume includes a prior career as an organization leader in tourism, travel and hospitality. In her thirties, she enrolled as a student at Utrecht University and went on to complete sequentially a bachelor’s, a master’s and a research master’s degree, each with cum laude distinction. In 2018-2020 she worked at Université catholique de Louvain, where she lectured literary history and theory. Shamier is registered as a yoga teacher with advanced YTT-500 credentials, as well as a certified MBCT/MBSR mindfulness trainer. As for educational proficiency in academia, she holds a full BKO University Teaching Qualification. Evelyne Shamier is a co-founder and editor of Leest, the open science platform on Dutch literature and culture, and with Geert Buelens she co-produces the podcast ‘Leest spreekt’.
Affiliations:
- Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON)
- Network for Environmental Humanities (UNEH)
- Internationale Vereniging voor Neerlandistiek (IVN)
- Piet Mondrian Edition Project | RKD - Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis & Huygens Instituut, KNAW (The Mondrian Papers)