Jacqueline Hylkema
Assistant Professor
- Name
- Dr. J.J. Hylkema
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9500
- j.j.hylkema@luc.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-9343-2894
Jacqueline Hylkema is Assistant Professor of Cultural History at Leiden University College and Senior Scaliger Fellow at Leiden University Libraries’ Scaliger Institute. Her research focuses on forgery in early modern print culture, particularly in the Dutch Republic and Britain. Hylkema is currently building a new Special Collection at Leiden University Library, consisting of fakes and forgeries produced in the Dutch Republic between 1550 and 1800.
Biography
Jacqueline Hylkema is Assistant Professor of Cultural History at Leiden University College The Hague, Leiden University’s international LAS Honours college, and Senior Scaliger Fellow at Leiden University Libraries’ Scaliger Institute.
Hylkema’s research focuses on forgery in 17th and early 18th-century print, and its cultural, social and political implications. She has published widely on this subject, in terms of individual cases as well as the general role and perception of faked texts and images in early modern societies. Her approach is highly interdisciplinary, combining cultural history, intellectual history, history of art and book history. In 2014, she was the guest-curator of Leiden University Library's exhibition Books, Crooks and Readers: The Seduction of Forgery (1600-1800) and she has collaborated on a number of other museum projects on the subject of forgery.
As Senior Scaliger Fellow, Hylkema is currently working on the project ‘Mapping the Fake Republic (1550-1800)’, the first extensive study of forgery in the Dutch Republic. The project includes the creation of the first Special Collection of early modern Dutch fakes and forgeries, ranging from fake news to fabricated scientific treatises.
Hylkema's courses focus primarily on the politics of art and print culture from 1600 onwards and include subjects like fakes and forgery, and the visual representation of religious, cultural and ethnic diversity in the Dutch Republic and Britain.
Academic Expertise
- Forgery studies
- Cultural history, 1550-1800
- Intellectual history, 1550-1800
- Political art history, 1600-1850
- Iconology
Courses
- A Cultural History of Pandemics (block 1)
- Cultural & Visual Analysis (blocks 1 and 3)
- Political Iconology: Art and Diversity 1600-1800 (block 3)
- Faking the Past: Forgery, History & Propaganda (block 4)
- Mapping the Fake Republic (research clinic, semesters 1 & 2)
Assistant Professor
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Leiden University College
Work address
Anna van BuerenpleinAnna van Buerenplein 301
2595 DG The Hague
Room number 4.44
Contact
- Hylkema J.J. (2023), Defining forgery in the Dutch Republic: Leiden University’s Special Collection of fakes and forgeries: contesting authenticity in literature, 1200-1700, conference at University of London, 30-31 March 2023. CFP: ‘Contesting Authenticity in Literature, 1200-1700’ 30 March 2023 - 31 March 2023.
- Hylkema J.J. (2022), Illusion, Belief and Disbelief in the Reception of George Psalmanazar’s Imposture: Cultures of Belief and Unbelief, conference at University of Verona, 2-5 August 2022. .
- Hylkema J.J. (2022), Paratexts and Parafakes in Four Editions of Psalmanazar’s Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa: Renaissance Society of America annual conference (Dublin, 30 March/2 April 2022). .
- Hylkema J.J. (2022), Vervalsing en de wetenschap: een vroegmodern kat-en-muisspel. In: Mouret A. & Sam-Sin F. (Eds.), Misleiden: Schatten van Verwarring. Voorschoten: Bot Uitgevers.
- Hylkema J.J. (2022), Fake Science in Early Modern European Print Culture: closing lecture at the exhibition 'Fake for Real: A History of Forgery and Falsification', the House of European History (Brussels, 29-30 January 2022) (Lecture).
- Hylkema J.J. (2022), Of theatrical illusion and fake advertisements: George Bickham the Younger, Samuel Foote and the Great Bottle Hoax of 1749. In: Lavender P. & Amundsen Bergström M. (Eds.), Faking it! The performance of forgery in late medieval and early modern culture. Leiden/Boston: Brill. 296-320.
- Hylkema J.J. (2021), George Psalmanazar’s Fake Formosa: Kunst en Wetenschap in An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa (1704): Mooier dan de waarheid: misleiden in woord en beeld, Studium Generale symposium, Leiden, 12 november 2021. .
- Hylkema J.J. (2021), ‘Forgery in early modern art histories: Karel van Mander and the aftermath of Hendrick Goltzius’ The Circumcision (1594): Symposium Fake Blues: Exposures of Forgeries and their Aftermaths (Cambridge University, 18 June 2021). .
- Hylkema J.J. (2021), Forging Phalaris: philology versus art theory in the battle of the books.
- Hylkema J.J. (2021), Lyes in print: fake news and a sense of unsafety in early modern europe.
- Hylkema J.J. (2020), The Forgery of Isaac Casaubon’s Name: Authority and The Originall of Idolatries. In: Gielen E. & Papy J. (Eds.), Falsifications and Authority in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance no. LECTIO. Studies in the Transmission of Texts & Ideas. No. 09. Turnhout: Brepols. 303-336.
- Hylkema J.J. (20 June 2019), The Rhetoric of Illusion: Persuasion and Response in Forgery, the Arts and Other Deceptions (1600-1750) (Dissertatie. Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University). Supervisor(s): Bussels S.P.M. & Eck C.A. van.
- Hylkema J.J. (2019), Of fake advertisements and theatrical deceptions: Tte great bottle hoax of 1749. Faking it. Forgery and Fabrication in Late Medieval and Early Modern Culture 15 August 2019 - 17 August 2019.
- Hylkema J.J. (2018), The Artist and the Mountebank: Rochester's Alexander Bendo and the Dynamics of Forgery and Illusion in 17th-Century Art. In: Becker D., Fischer A. & Schmitz Y. (Eds.), Faking,Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting. Discredited Practices at the Margins of Mimesis: transcript Verlag.
- Hylkema J.J. (2018), Books, Crooks and Readers: the Seduction of Forgery, 1600-1800: Exhibition Leiden University Library, 5 June-30 September 2014. Leiden: Leiden University Library.
- Hylkema J.J. (2017), Forged Print and Fabricated Manuscripts in Early Modern Conflict Zones: Towards a First Taxonomy: Symposium - Manuscripts in Conflict Zones (University of Bergen, 2/3 April 2017). .
- Hylkema J.J. (2015), Polly Baker: het hartstochtelijk pleidooi van een Verlichtingsheldin. In: Jong J. de, Pieper C. & Rademaker A. (Eds.), Beïnvloeden met Emoties. Pathos en Retorica: Amsterdam University Press.
- Hylkema J.J. (2015), Forgery & Scholarship: An Early Modern Game of Cat and Mouse, Jaarverslag 2004 van de Koninklijke Brill NV Brill in 2014: .
- Hylkema J.J. (2015), Forgery & Scholarship: An Early Modern Game of Cat and Mouse, Brill in 2014: .
- Hylkema J. (2015), Between Fact and Fiction: Transforming the Past in George Psalmanazar’s Forged Histories of the Orient. In: Sarti C. (Ed.), Geschichtstransformationen. Medien, Verfahren und Funktionalisierungen historischer Rezeption: transcript Verlag.
- Hylkema J.J. (2014) Els Stronks, Negotiating Differences. Word, Image and Religion in the Dutch Republic. Review of: Stronks Els (2014), Negotiating Differences. Word, Image and Religion in the Dutch Republic. Cultural History no. 3.1 .
- Lamers H. & Hylkema J.J. (2014), Between emblem and labyrinth: the many images of Europe in art, literature, and scholarship, 1500–1800, European Review of History 21(6): 789-797.
- Hylkema J.J. & Lamers H. (2014), Between Emblem and Labyrinth: the Many Images of Europe in Art, Literature, and Scholarship, 1500–1800, European Review of History 21(6): 789-798.
- Hylkema J.J. (2014), Forging Casaubon: the Role of Print in the Case of The Original of Idolatries: Leiden University Libraries’ Special Collections (Leiden, 2 September 2014) (Lecture).
- Hylkema J.J. (2014), Rhetoric, Historiography and Deception in Early Modern England: (seminar, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 29 January 2014) (Lecture).
- Hylkema J.J. (2014), The Pleasure of Being Deceived: Spectatorship, the Arts and Other Deceptions in 18th-Century England: De Kunst van het Liegen in de Achttiende Eeuw, Conference organized by Werkgroep 18e Eeuw (Amsterdam, 17/18 January 2014). .
- Hylkema J. (2014), The Pleasure of Being Deceived: Spectatorship in the Arts and Other Deceptions in Eighteenth-Century England, De Achttiende eeuw: documentatieblad van de werkgroep Achttiende eeuw 46: .
- Hylkema J.J. (2013), Educating the Eye: Obscuritas, Junius and Viewing Practices in Early 18th-Century Art: Obscurity (Leiden University, 15 November 2013). .
- Hylkema J.J. (2013), It is So, It is Not So: The Rhetoric of Truthfulness, Feign’d and True, in Ben Jonson’s Comedies: Bonds, Lies, and Circumstances: Discourses of Truth-Telling in the Renaissance (University of St Andrews, 21-23 March 2013). .
- Hylkema J.J. (2013), Between Fact and Fiction: Forged Histories of the Orient in Early Modern England: Transformations of History (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, 28 February/1 March 2013). .
- Hylkema J.J. (2012), The New Phalaris: Rhetoric, Presence and Agency and the Case of George Psalmanazar: Presence and Agency: Rhetoric, Aesthetics and the Experience of Art (Leiden University, 13/15 December 2012). .
- Hylkema J.J. (2012), The Forgery of Isaac Casaubon’s Name: Authority and The Original of Idolatries: Falsifications and Authority in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (University of Leuven, 6/7 December 2012). .
- Hylkema J.J. (2011), Staging Deception: Illusion, Audience and the Great Bottle Hoax: Staging Illusion: Cultural and Digital Fantasy (University of Sussex, 8/9 December 2011). .
- Hylkema J.J. (2011), A True Account of Invented Pasts. History, Forgery and Confession in 18th-Century Britain: Annual Conference of the International Society for Cultural History (Oslo, 3/6 August 2011). .
- Hylkema J.J. (2011), Identity, Imposture and Invented Pasts in 18th-Century Britain: The International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies’ 13th International Congress (Graz, 25/29 July 2011). .
- Hylkema J.J. (2011), The Great Bottle Hoax of 1749 and the Emotions of Spectatorship: the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference (Oxford, 5/7 January 2011). .
- Hylkema J.J. (2010), Mary Toft’s Rabbit Show – the Early 18th-Century Theatre versus Nature, Science and the Not Quite So Supernatural: Half Dust, Half Deity. Science, Nature and the Supernatural in the Long Eighteenth Century (Cambridge University, 24/25 April 2010). .