Isabel Hoving
Guest
- Name
- Dr. I. Hoving
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- i.hoving@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Isabel Hoving is Senior University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
Research
If my research concerns interculturality, globalization, gender, sexuality, and nature, it is because I am interested in all manifestations of cultural diversity. I obtained my PhD at Amsterdam University in 1995 with a dissertation on the multi-voiced literatures Caribbean migrant women (cum laude; supervisor Mieke Bal). My work aims at relating critically to postcolonial literary theory and the theories of migration and globalization, by confronting and mixing these theories with other theories, and testing them in new contexts. For example, I am translating postcolonial (and related critical) insights to the Dutch situation (see e.g. my publications on Surinamese literature (2004), the influence of migration on Dutch everyday culture (2005), and (forthcoming) Dutch racism). My most recent work inquires into the baffling intersections of postcolonial theory, ecocriticism, and queer theory. I became interested in ecocriticism (which researches the literary imagination of nature), when my research in issues of postcoloniality and interculturality showed me that, at the heart of the intertwined discourses of race and sexuality, we find strong convictions of what would be natural, and what unnatural. A final topic that fascinates me is cross-over literature; as a writer (of cross-over philosophical fantasy), I like to ponder the tensions between the theory and the practice of literature.
Curriculum Vitae
I began my working life as a secondary school teacher (1978). After working at the Universities of Amsterdam and Antwerp, I had the fortune to join the Department of Literary Studies in Leiden, where I am now in particular responsible for courses in interculturality, and gender and sexuality. Having been a teacher for more than thirty years, I still love teaching, particularly when it concerns literature: I love story-telling so much that I cannot help but publish novels myself (2002, 2009, 2010). I am also a member of the editorial team of Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, sex and race, and Ecozon@, Journal for European Literature, Culture and Environment.
Publications
Between Relation and the Bare Facts: the Migratory Imagination and Relationality. In Durrant, S. & Lord, C.M. (Eds.) Essays in Migratory Aesthetics: Cultural Practices Between Migration and Art-making (pp. 179-190). Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007.
Moving the Caribbean Landscape: Cereus Blooms At Night as a Re-imagination of the Caribbean Environment. In: DeLoughrey, E.M., Gosson, R.K., Handley, G.M. (Eds.), Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture (New World Studies), pp. 154-168. Charlottesville/London: University of Virginia Press, 2005.
Hoving, I. & Dibbits, H. & Schrover, Marlou (Eds.) (2005) . Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers, 2005.
Niets dan het heden: over Jamaica Kincaid, de postkoloniale literatuurstudie, en wat er van ons terecht moet komen. In Kempen, M., van, Verkruijsse, P., Zuiderweg, A. (Eds.) Wandelaar onder de palmen (pp. 15-27). Leiden: KITLV Uitgeverij, 2004.
Oude pijn en nieuwe moed: familie, politiek en geweld door de ogen van een nieuwe generatie Surinaamse schrijfsters. OSO Tijdschrift voor Surinaamse Taalkunde, Letterkunde, Cultuur en Geschiedenis, 23 (2004) 1, pp. 98-109.
With Kathleen Gyssels andMaggie Bowers, ed. Convergences and Interferences: Newness in Intercultural Practices. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001
In Praise of New Travellers. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 2001.
Guest
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Literatuurwetenschap
- Hoving I. (2017), Writing the Earth, Darkly: Globalization, Ecocriticism, and Desire. Lanham etc.: Lexington Books.
- Hoving I. (2017), The Queerness of Nature in Caribbean Writing: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Desire Through Plants [Conference Vegetal Mediations, Central University Europe, Budapest, Hungary, May 6 2017]. .
- Hoving I. (2017), The Environmental Humanities and Caribbean Literature: New Ways to Theorize Race, Colonialism, Gender, and Desire [Onderzoekschool Literatuurwetenschap, Amsterdam, January 27 2017]. .
- Hoving I. (2017), Writing the Earth, Darkly: Globalization, Ecocriticism, and Desire. Lanham, USA: Lexington Books.
- Hoving I., Crul M.R.J., Haan W., Hogendoorn G., Slootman M., Ramdas S., Romein D.M., Takkenberg J.J.M., Waldring I., Van der Weijden I.C.M. & Wolff R. (2017), Taskforce the future is diversity: Study success bicultural students. Report 2016-2017.
- Hoving I. (2015), De een na laatste dood van het meisje Capone. Amsterdam: Querido.
- Boletsi M., Mul S. de, Hoving I. & Minnaard E. (2015), De lichtheid van literatuur. Engagement in de multiculturele samenleving. Leuven, Den Haag: Acco.
- Hoving I. (2015), “Bones, Buried Deep: the Anthropocene as the Frame for Memory and Identity in Caribbean Writing.” Lecture Seminar Climate, Change, Literature. University of Maastricht 6-7 February 2015. .
- Hoving I. (2014), Geen weemoed. In: Andeweg A. & Wesseling L. (Eds.), Wat de verbeelding niet vermag! Essays bij het afscheid van Maaike Meijer. Nijmegen: Uitgeverij Vantilt. 148-52.
- Hoving I. (2014), Dutch postcolonialism, multiculturalism and national identity: society, theory, literature. In: Göttsche D. & Dunker A. (Eds.), (Post-) Colonialism Across Europe: Transcultural History and National Memory no. 7. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag. 390.
- Hoving I. (2014), “Broadcasters and Butterflies: Sexual Transgression as Cultural Critique in Dutch Caribbean Writing.”. In: Del Valle R., Fumagalli A.M.C. & Ledent B. (Eds.), The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Sexual Politics after Binarism.: University of Virginia Press. 477-513.
- Hoving I. & Essed P. (Eds.) (2014), Dutch Racism. New York, Amsterdam: Rodopi.
- Hoving I. (2014), Matter, Meaning, and the Classroom: A Case-Study. Paper conference Framing Nature: Signs, Stories, and Ecologies of Meaning. Tartu, Estonia, April 29–May 3, 2014. .
- Hoving I. (2014), “Waste and the Material Turn: the Environmental Humanities in a Global Perspective.”. .
- Hoving I. (2013), Imagined Space/Lived Space, Alienation/Destruction, Singularity/Specificity: Testing Three Oppositions to Find Out What (Lived) Space Means. In: Heirman J. & Klooster J. (Eds.), The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literary Texts, Ancient and Modern. Gent: Academia Press. 111-124.
- Hoving I. (2013), "Broadcasters and Butterflies: Sexual Transgression as Cultural Critique in Dutch Caribbean Writing.". In: Fumagalli M.C., Ledent B. & Valle Alcalá R. del (Eds.), The Crosse-Dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press. 253-271.
- Hoving I. (2013), "Earthly Things": Ecocriticism, Globalization, and the Material Turn", Frame. Tijdschrift voor Literatuurwetenschap 26(2): 71-85.
- Hoving I. (2013), Editorial Creative Writing and Arts Section, Ecozona: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 4(1): 103-104.
- Hoving I. (2013), Editorial Creative Writing and Arts, Ecozona: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 4(2): 199-201.
- Hoving I. (2013), “Between Noah and the Middle Passage: the Imagination of Flood Events in the African Diaspora.” Workshop The cultural politics of catastrophe. (Post)colonial representations of Southeast Asian and Caribbean disasters, 1800 – 2012. Leiden University, 4-5 juni 2013. .
- Hoving I. (2013), “The Unimaginable Wetlands: Art, Fantasy and the Rising Sea Level.” University of Surrey. ASLE-UKI Conference. 29-31 August 2013. .
- Stuiver M., Jagt P van der, Erven E. & Hoving I. (2012), The potentials of art to involve citizens in regional transitions:exploring a site-specific performance in Haarzuilens,the Netherlands, Community Development Journal 2012: .
- Hoving I. (2012), "Polderpoko: Why It Cannot Exist". In: Boehmer E. & Mul S. De (Eds.), The Postcolonial Low Countries: Literature, Colonialism, Multiculturalism. Lanham, Boulder, New York, etc.: Lexington Books. 45-58.
- Hoving I. (2012), “Desire At Risk: Queer Reconfigurations of Sexuality and Race in Contemporary Flood Narratives.” EASLCE Conference Natura Loquens. la Laguna. University of Tenerife. 29 June 2012. .
- Hoving I. (2011), Michelle Cliff: the Unheard Music. In: Donnell A. & Bucknor M. (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature.. New York, London: Routledge. 27-33.
- Hoving I. (2011), “Reading: On Slowness, Trees, and the Desire Not to Read.”. In: Aydemir M. (Ed.), Eighty-Eight: Mieke Bal PhDs 1983-2011. Amsterdam: ASCA Press. 59-63.
- Hoving I. (2011), Opacity and Openness: Creating New Senses of Dutchness. In: Bal M. & Hernández-Navarro M.A. (Eds.), Art and Visibility in Migratory Culture. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 297-312.
- Hoving I. (2010), Het Boek van het Vuur 2: De vulkaan van Wageningen. Amsterdam: Querido.
- Hoving I. (2010), Het boek van het vuur 1: Het verbond van de Bliksems. Amsterdam: Querido.
- Hoving I. (2010) The Postcolonial Turn in Dutch Literary Criticism. Review of: Louwerse H. & Minnaard L. (2007|2008), Homeless Entertainment: On Hafid Bouazza's Literary Writing|New Germans, New Dutch: Literary Interventions. Oxford|Amsterdam: Peter Lang|Amsterdam University Press. Journal of Dutch Literature 1: 113-121.
- Hoving I. (2010), On the Absence of Nature: Writing on Nature and Ecocriticism in the Netherlands, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 1(1): 167-73.
- Hoving I. (2007), Between Relation and the Bare Facts: the Migratory Imagination and Relationality. In: Durrant S. & Lord C.M. (Eds.), Essays in Migratory Aesthetics: Cultural Practices Between Migration and Art-making. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 179-190.
- Hoving I. (2006), Giving Life: Inge Boer's Postcolonial Theory. In: Boer I.E., Bal M., Eekelen B. van & Spyer P. (Eds.), Uncertain Territories: Boundaries in Culutral Analysis. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 279-290.
- Hoving I. (2006), On Invasions, Weeds and Wilderness: the Dutch Imagination of Globalisation (thrice). In: Joseph C.A.B. (Ed.), Global Fissures: Postcolonial Futures. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 153-171.
- Hoving I. (2006), In Praise of Imperfect ranslations: Reading, Translating, and the Love of the Incomprehensible. Pinsent Pat (Ed.), No Child is an Island: the Case for Children's Literature in Translation. . Shenstone: Pied Piper Publishing. 37-44.
- Hoving I., Dibbits H. & Schrover Marlou (2005), Veranderingen van het alledaagse. Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers.
- Hoving I. (2005), Inleiding: veranderingen van het alledaagse. In: Hoving I., Dibbits H. & Schrover M. (Eds.), Veranderingen van het alledaagse. Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers. 1-24.
- Hoving I. (2005), Moving the Caribbean Landscape: Cereus Blooms At Night as a Re-imagination of the Caribbean Environment. In: DeLoughrey E.M., Gosson R.K. & Handley G.M. (Eds.), Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture. Charlottesville/London: University of Virginia Press. 154-168.
- Best S., Blokker N., Hoving I. & Pennings L. (2005), Sexy: internetisch flirten van 1960 tot nu: de coaches en de concurrenten. In: Hoving I., Dibbits H. & Schrover M. (Eds.), Veranderingen van het alledaagse. Den Haag: Sdu Uitgevers. 165-196.
- Hoving I. (2005), Circumventing Openness: Creating New Sense of Dutchness, Transit 1(1): 1-11.
- Hoving I. (2004), Nat hout: Astrid Roemers postkoloniale verbeelding. In: , Kunsten in Beweging. Den Haag: SDU uitgevers. 323-341.
- Hoving I. (2004), Niets dan het heden: over Jamaica Kincaid, de postkoloniale literatuurstudie, en wat er van ons terecht moet komen. In: Kempen M. van, Verkruijsse P. & Zuiderweg A. (Eds.), Wandelaar onder de palmen. Leiden: KITLV Uitgeverij. 15-27.
- Hoving I. (2004), Gardening in the Jungles of Post-Coloniality: Representing Multiculturality and Hybridity. In: Ledent B. (Ed.), Bridges Across Chasms: Toward a Transcultural Future in Caribbean Literature. Luik: L3 Liege Language and Literature. 211-219.
- Alphen E.J. van, Hoving I. & Korsten F.W.A. (Eds.) (2004), Africa and Its Significant Others: Forty Years of Intercultural Entanglement. New York: Rodopi.
- Hoving I. (2004), Oude pijn en nieuwe moed: familie, politiek en geweld door de ogen van een nieuwe generatie Surinaamse schrijfsters, OSO 23(1): 98-109.
- Hoving I. (2003), Corruptions, mutations, life: the vegetable imagination of Dutch postcoloniality. In: , Nature and Nation: Vaster than Empires. London: London Institute. 129-138.
- Hoving I. (2002), De gevleugelde kat. Amsterdam: Querido Uitgevers.
- Hoving I. (2002), Remaining Where You Are: Kincaid and Glissant on Space and Knowledge. In: , Mobilizing Place, Placing Mobility: The Politics of Representation in a Globalized World. Amsterdam: Rodopi. 125-140.
- Hoving I. (2002) Review. Review of: Arnold James, A History of Caribbean Literature. Vol 2 no. 2. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Arcadia: Internationale Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft 37: 413-416.
- Hoving I. & Mesters G. (2001), Een vrouw die danst in de regen. Strategieën van zwarte, migranten- en vluchtelingenvrouwen in literatuur, theater en film. In: Botman M., Jouwe N. & Wekker G. (Eds.), Caleidoscopische Visies. Amsterdam: KIT Uitgeverij. 117-151.
- Hoving I. (2001), In Praise of New Travelers. Stanford CA: Stanford University Press.
- Gyssels K., Hoving I. & Bowers M.A. (2001), Convergences and Interferences: Newness in Intercultural Practices. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
- Hoving I. (2001), Hybridity: A Slippery Trail. Goggin J. & Neef S. (Eds.), Travelling Concepts I: Text, Subjectivity, Hybridity. International Conference Travelling Concepts. Amsterdam: ASCA Press. 185-2001.
- Hoving I. & Hekma G. (Eds.) (2000), . Thamyris: mythmaking from past to present.
- Hoving I. (2000) Review Heike Paul. Review of: Paul H. (2000), Mapping Migration: Women's Writing and the American Immigrant Experience from the 1950s tot the 1990s. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag C. Winter. European Journal of Women's Studies .
- Hoving I. (1 January 1995), The Castration of Livingstone and Other Stories: Reading African and Caribbean Migrant Women's Writing (Dissertatie, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): Schipper Mineke.
- Hoving I. (2000), Buchi Emecheta, Openbaar 30: 320-324.
- Hoving I., Bosch M. & Wekker G. (1999), In het hart van de wetenschap: naar Total E-quality en diversiteit in de universiteit. In: , In het hart van de wetenschap: naar Total E-quality en diversiteit in de universiteit. Den Haag: SDU.
- Hoving I. (1999), Smelly Texts for a Conditional Future. In: NN NN (Ed.), ASCA Yearbook: Come to Your Senses. Amsterdam 61-78.
- Hoving I. (1999), Three Local Cases in Cross-Atlantic Reading: Discourses on Space and Identity. In: Bal M. (Ed.), The Practice of Cultural Analysis: Exposing Interdisciplinary Interpretation Between Vision and Reflection. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 203-218.
- Hoving I. & Humbeeck K. (Eds.) (1999), . ALW-cahier.
- Hoving I. (1998), Een leeg graf, een boze man, en een spraakmakende foto: brokstukken van een Nederlandstalige reflectie over interculturaliteit. In: Kempen M. van & Leijnse E. (Eds.), Tussenfiguren. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 47-61.
- Hoving I. (1998), De eigenzinnigheid van de stem: oraliteit en postkoloniale theorievorming. . ALW-cahier 81-93.
- Hoving I. (1996), Het plezier van de koprol: kanttekeningen bij een interculturele wetenschapspraktijk. In: Braidotti R. & Wekker G. (Eds.), Praten in het donker. Kampen: Kok Agora. 100-118.
- Hoving I. (1996), Risico's van smetvrees: Nederland, de Cariben en het postkolonialisme, Armada: tijdschrift voor wereldliteratuur 2: 76-80.
- Hoving I. (1995), Love in the Third World: Two Caribbean Women Writers on Myths about the Relation between Sexuality and Race, Thamyris: mythmaking from past to present 2: 151-175.
- Hoving I. (1995), Het verzet van Caraïbische schrijfsters, Atheneum Illustre 1: 19-21.
- Hoving I. (1995), Andere kleuren, andere ritmes, Surplus 5: 22-22.
- Hoving I. (1995), Literatuur geeft mensen een eigen identiteit, Atheneum Illustre 1: 47-48.