BOOKS (peer-reviewed)
2009 Musically Sublime (New York: Fordham University Press)
EDITED VOLUMES & SPECIAL ISSUES
2022 Special 1,5 issue on Mobilizing Creativity (ed with Iris van der Tuin & Nana Verhoeff),
The Minnesota Review (Duke UP)
2018 Special issue on Literature and the Material Turn for Comparative Literature
Journal (Duke UP)
2018 Special issue on Paradoxes of Creativity for Journal of Creative Behaviour (Wiley)
2018 Book Presence in a Digital Age (ed with Kari Driscoll and Jessica Pressman)
(Bloomsbury)
2012 Between Page and Screen (ed) (New York: Fordham University Press)
TEXTBOOK
2019 (with Ann Rigney) The Life of Texts. An Introduction to LIterary Studies (AUP)
2017 [2006] (with Ann Rigney) Het leven van teksten. Een inleiding tot de literatuurwetenschap (AUP)
BOOKS (non-peer-reviewed)
2015 Het schrijven aan de wand. Literatuur in de toekomst (Utrecht: Utrecht University, inaugural address)
2007 Controlled Accidents (catalogue for a solo show by Heringa/Van Kalsbeek
at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam)
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS in international peer-reviewed journals (all single author)
2023 "Easing into the Sublime: An Adornoian and Daoist Framework on Creative Work." In Vlad Glaveanu (ed.). Journal of Possibility Studies 1.
2022 “Introduction” to special issue on Mobilizing Creativity, The Minnesota Review (summer).
2022 “Outsider Writing: The Healing Art of Robert Walser.” In Anna Poletti & Erin LaCour (eds.) Graphic Medicine. Biography, 44 (22).
2022 “Outsider Art and Writing.” In Vlad Glaveanu et al (eds.) Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible.
2022 “Impermanence.” In Vlad Glaveanu et al (eds.) Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible.
2018 “Literature and the Material Turn” for Comparative Literature, special issue on Literature and the Material Turn.
2018 “The Creativity Paradox” for Journal of Creative Behavior, eds. Kiene Brillenburg Wurth and Vlad Glaveanu, DOI: 10.1002/jocb.231.
2014 “The Dis-Appearance of Writing. Literature and the Imaginary” in Image [&] Narrative: Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative 15 (4).
2014 “Diffraction, Handwriting, and Intra-Mediality in Louise Paill ’s Livres-livres” in Parallax, special issue ‘Diffracted Worlds – Diffractive Readings: Onto-Epistemologies and the Critical Humanities’, eds Birgit Kaiser and Kathrin Thiele, 20 (2), July.
2013 “Literary Materiality in the Digital Age” in Image [&] Narrative, 14 (3) December.
2013 “Visual Text and Media Divergence” in European Journal of English Studies, ed. Manuel Portela et al (special issue on Visual Text), 17 (2), 92-108.
2011 “Old and New Medialities in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes”, New Perspectives on Material Culture and Intermedial Practice, ed. Steven de Zepetnek, Asunción López-Varela, Haun Saussy, Jan Mieszkowski. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 13 (3), 2-10.
2011 Spitting Image and Pre-Televisual Political Satire. Image [&] Narrative 12 (3), 13-36.
2011 “Posthumanities and Post-Textualities: Reading The Raw Shark Texts and Woman’s World”, Comparative Literature 63 (2), 119-141 (most-read article between June 2011-July 2013).
2007 “The Musicality of the Past: Sehnsucht, Trauma, and the Sublime”, Journal of the Philosophy of History 1 (2): 219-247.
2006 “Digitality, Intermediality, and the Miracle of the Monomedium”, Revue des Littératures Européenne 5: Littératures num riques en Europe: etat de l’art .
2005 “Reconsidering the Postmodern Sublime: From Kant to Lyotard, and Back to Burke”, Phrasis 1 (1): 63-75.
2005 “Schopenhauer, Wagner, Nietzsche: een genealogie van het muzikaal sublieme”, Feit en Fictie VII (1): 80-98.
2004 “The Grand Style and the Aesthetics of Terror in Musical Performance Practices”, Journal of Music Theory 9 (1) 2004: 44-55.
2000 “Sehnsucht, muziek en het sublieme”, Feit en Fictie IV (4): 39-56.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS IN BOOK CHAPTERS (peer-reviewed)
2023 (with Liedeke Plate). ‘The Generative Power of Palimpsests.’ In Kaye Mitchell (ed.) The Edinburgh Companion to Experimental Women’s Writing. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP).
2023 “Creativity from a Comparative Perspective: Processual and Buddhist Views.” In Chiara Robbiano & Sarah Flavel (eds.). Key Concepts in World Philosophies. Bloomsbury.
2022 “I Feel Love: Music Mutation in the Synthesizer Era.” In Floris Schuiling (ed.). Material Cultures of Music Notation. (New York, London: Routledge).
2022 “Outsider Writing: The Healing Art of Robert Walser.” In Anna Poletti & Erin LaCour (eds.) Graphic Medicine. University of Hawaiï Press.
2019 “Authorial Impression and Remediation in Anne Carson’s Quasi-Artists’ Book Nox” in Medium,
Object, Metaphor. The Printed Book in Contemporary American Culture, eds Alexander Starre and Heike Schaefer (Palgrave Macmillan)
2018 “Book Presence: An Introductory Exploration” in Book Presence in a Digital Age (London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming summer 2018), pp. 1-26.
2018 “The Demediation of Writing: Literature and the Imaginary” in Book Presence in a Digital Age (London: Bloomsbury), pp 211-224.
2017 “Creation” for Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary (Milton Keynes: Meson Press, pp. 37-42).
2017 “Creative Writing” for Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis, ed. Mads Rosendahl Thomsen et al (London Bloomsbury, pp. 373-384)
2017 “Remediation” for Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis, ed. Mads Rosendahl Thomsen et al (London: Bloomsbury, pp. 327-338).
2017 “Grotesque Animal Flesh” in Gender: Laughter, ed. Bettina von Papenberg (Galen Palgrave Macmillan: Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks).
2015 “Back to the Beat: Silent Orality in Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries” in Thresholds of Listening, Sander van Maas (ed) (NY: Fordham University Press)
2015 “Absolutely Fabulous: Satire, the Body, and the Female Grotesque” in The Power of Satire, Marijke Meijer Drees & Sonja de Leeuw (John Benjamins)
2013 “The Bodies of Henri Chopin”, Speaking of Music, Andrew Clark & Keith Chapin (eds) (New York: Fordham UP), 192-211.
2012 “Flowers, Skin, and Souls” in Heide Hatry: Not a Rose (Milan, New York: Charta) (Artist’s book with leading scholars and artists in the field: Donna Haraway, Avital Ronell, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Safran Foer, Richard Kostelanetz).
2012 “Introduction” to Between Page and Screen, 1-26.
2012 “Posthuman Subjects, Assembeld Textualities: Remediated Print in the Digital Age”, Between Page and Screen (peer-reviewed), 75-100.
2012 (with L. Gruic) “Cinematography as a Literary Concept in the Modern Age”, Between Page and Screen (peer-reviewed), 184-200.
2012 “Intermedialiteit & Jonathan Safran Foers Tree of Codes. De kunst is zichzelf niet meer”. Draden in het donker. Intertekstualiteit in theorie en praktijk, Yra van Dijk, Maarten de Pourcq, Carel de Strycker (ed) (Nijmegen: Vantilt), 151-68.
2009 “Ophelia and the Musically Sublime”, Sehnsucht, Melancholia, and the Desire for Death, Catrien Santing (ed.) (Amsterdam: De Buitenkant), 208-247.
2007 “Sounds Like Now: Music, the Sublime, and Literary Modernism”, Music and Literary Modernism, Robert McParland (ed.) (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press), 13-32.
2006 “Decorum, Duplicity, and Faith: Afterthoughts on the Sublime”, Histories of the Sublime, Jurgen Pieters and Bart Vandenabeele (ed.) (Brussels: Academy of Sciences), 135-146.
2004 “Coleridge’s Kantian Appropriation of Sublime Nature in the LakDistrict”, England’s Green and Pleasant Land. English Culture and the Romantic Countryside, Amanda Gilroy (ed.) (Leuven: Peeters, peer-reviewed), 19-31.
1999 “Burke, Bartram, and the Sublime: The Spectacle of Death and the Limits of Representation”, Revolutions and Watersheds. Transatlantic Dialogues 1775-1815, Wil Verhoeven and Beth DolanKautz (ed.) (Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi), 27-39.
INVITED (INTER)NATIONAL LECTURES
I have presented over 60 papers at University of San Diego, UCLA, Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, Boston University, Fordham University, UC Irvine, Linneaus University, Sorbonne, Paris Nanterre, University of Bergen, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, University of Ghent, University of Louvain, University of Ljubljana, Birkbeck, Luxembourg, Bologna, Turku, Santiago de Compostela, Berlin, Vancouver, Atlanta, UCLA, NYU Abu Dhabi, Konstanz, as well as in the Netherlands as keynote-, invited-, or public speaker. I have been involved in teaching courses and doing keynotes for the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies on various occasions.
‘VALORISATION’
I have been committed to sharing scholarly knowledge with a larger audience through lectures, interviews, documentaries, and engagements with artists, museums & concert halls during the past 20 years in the Netherlands and abroad.
More recent higher-impact public lectures & products include:
*author in catalog Area of Impact, for an exhibition of the work of Heringa/Van Kalsbeek at Kunstmuseum, The Hague, 2023
*an international lecture for the Ghetto Fighter’s House Museum in their Talking Memory series on lives in hiding during WWII in my grandfather’s church ( at 52:31), 2021
*a COVID lecture on literature and pandemics, 2020
*national and international public lectures (2016-23) on creativity, such as:
-Robotics and Literature (with writer Ronald Giphardt), Utrecht City of Literature, 2017
-Algorithms, Literature, and Creativity (with Jelle Brandt Cortius) in De Nieuwe Liefde, 2019
-Mastering Creativity lecture for the Bildungsakademie in 2019 and 2020
-Interview on Disruptin Education with Creativity for DCU Credne Podcast, 2021
*a public radio show on stories and classical music in a series hosted by public intellectuals Een Goedemorgen met, 2020
Earlier activities include:
a documentary on book objects (Turning the Page) in the digital age (https://vimeo.com/42456773) (2012), collaborations with New York-based artist Heide Hatry (cf. contribution to This is Not a Rose, 2013), public lectures on literature and digital media since 2007, a catalogue & lectures for the solo show Controlled Accidents by Heringa/Van Kalsbeek for the Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum (2007), as well as various lectures for the Internationale School voor Wijsbegeerte (a.o. with the Dutch artist & writer Armando) on the idea of the sublime in the early 2000s.
COMMISSIONS OF TRUST
2022- Member editorial board journal Possibility Studies (Wiley)
2021-22 VIDI committee (social sciences and humanities), NWO
2020 Member of evaluation committee research institute CLUE+, VU
2016 Member review panel Nordic and Comparative Literature for the Norwegian Research Council
2012- Editorial Board Humanities, Amsterdam University Press
2012 Dutch National Selection Committee Ph.D. projects in the Humanities
2011- Reviewer for NWO: research projects in the Humanities
2008-10 Curriculum Committee National Research School Literary Studies
2007- Reviewer for international journals
2007-11 Advisory Board research program Dutch Landscape Design and the Sublime, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
2004-07 Research Committee National Research School Literary Studies
INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH GROUPS, COMMITTEES, COLLABORATIONS
2023 Vice-chair (with Jørgen Bruhn) of CLAM
2022- Member Possibility Studies Network
2016- Member Research Committee on Literature, Arts, and Media, ICLA
2016- Founding co-director of Utrecht-based Platform for Creativity in Education
2014- Member European Network for Modernism and Avant-Garde Studies
2012- Member AcademiaNet
2011- Expert member UNESCO project: Crossing Media Boundaries. New Forms of the Book, project-leader Alexis Weedon
2010-11 Expert member international research group Media Borders, Multimodality, and Intermediality, funded by Linnaeus University
2008-11 Expert member international research group Studies on Intermediality as Intercultural Mediation (George Landow, Asuncion Lopez Varela)
2009- Member American Comparative Literature Association
2007- Member Centre de recherche sur l'intermédialité (Montréal)
2007 Expert member research project The Marcony Galaxy, University of Bologna