Arnoud Visser is Professor of Textual Culture in the Renaissance in the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication. He is director of the Huizinga Institute, the Dutch national research school of cultural history.

His research has focused on early modern intellectual culture, with particular attention to humanism, (counter-) reformation and the history of reading. He is currently completing two book projects: On Pedantry: A Cultural History of the Know-it-All (forthcoming in 2025 with Princeton University Press); and, as editor, A Cultural History of Fame in the Renaissance (forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic in 2025). He is directing Annotated Books Online, a digital platform for the study of early modern reading practices (a collaborative venture together with partners at Gent, University College London, York and Princeton).

His publications include:

 

 




Chair
Textual Culture in the Renaissance
Inaugural lecture date
27.11.2013