Dr Esther van Raamsdonk is a lecturer in the department for English Language and Culture at Utrecht University, having worked previously at University of Oxford, Warwick University, and Queen Mary University, London. Much of her work centres Anglo-Dutch connections in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Her first monograph traced such connections in the works of John Milton and Andrew Marvell (Milton, Marvell, and the Dutch Republic). She has published on the politics of Bible translation, representations of scripture in Vondel and Milton, travelogues, digital humanities and correspondence networks, and early modern cheese. 

Interests:

Poetry; Anglo-Dutch relations; English and Dutch Republican writings; Arminianism; Political propaganda; Biblical narratives; John Milton; Andrew Marvell; John Dryden; Constantijn Huygens; Joost van den Vondel