Lotte Jensen

Lotte Eilskov Jensen (Hillerød, Denemarken, 1972) is neerlandica en filosoof. Ze werkt als hoogleraar Nederlandse literatuur- en cultuurgeschiedenis bij de afdeling Nederlandse taal en cultuur aan de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. Ze is lid van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) en voorzitter van de Werkgroep De Moderne Tijd. Ze werkte de afgelopen jaren met een NWO Vici-beurs aan onderzoek over rampen en Nederlandse identiteitsvorming. Momenteel neemt ze deel aan het door NWO gesubsidieerde project Heritages of Hunger. Ze is recensent bij de Volkskrant en columnist bij de lage landen.

Lotte Jensen is Professor of Dutch Cultural and Literary History at Radboud University Nijmegen. She was Principal Investigator of the project Dealing with Disasters. The shaping of local and national identities in the Netherlands (1421-1890), for which she was awarded a VICI grant by NWO, and which investigates the impact of natural disasters on Dutch local and national identities from a cultural-historical perspective. Previously, she directed the project Proud to be Dutch, for which she was awarded a VIDI grant by NWO, which investigated the roots of nationalism in the Netherlands in a European context. Together with Marguérite Corporaal (PI, RU) and Ingrid Zwarte (WUR) she coordinates the project Heritages of Hunger.She is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

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NWO-VICI

This project investigates the way local (civic / regional) and national identities were shaped in response to natural disasters in the Netherlands, starting with the St Elisabeth’s Flood of 1421 and ending with the Severe Winter of 1890.

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Water: A Dutch Cultural History

Translated by Nance Forest-Flier (Nijmegen: Radboud University Press, 2024, release: January)

Floating cradles, water wolves, a finger in the dike: what do stories about their struggle with the water tell us about the Dutch?

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Dealing with Disasters from Early Modern to Modern Times

Hanneke van Asperen and Lotte Jensen (eds.), Responses to Catastrophes (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023)

This volume addresses cultural representations of catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and earthquakes over the centuries. In the past as now, artists and authors try to make sense of disasters, grasp their impact, and communicate moral, religious, or political messages.

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