Marijke Denger
Researcher
- Name
- Dr. M.K. Denger
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 1287
- m.k.denger@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Marijke Denger is a researcher at the Centre for the Arts in Society.
More information about Marijke Denger
Marijke Denger majored in English at Leiden University, Trinity College Dublin and the University of Bern and pursued research at, amongst others, the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies of the University of Kent, Canterbury. In Autumn 2016, she completed her PhD at Bern with a thesis on Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels. This was published by Routledge in 2019.
Marijke’s post-doctoral research project is concerned with Empire in the East Indies: Literature, Geopolitics and Imperial Awareness in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, c. 1780-1930.
From February 2019-August 2020, she was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation to pursue (archival) research at KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden and the University of Oxford. Her research interests include Anglophone and Dutch colonial literatures, contemporary postcolonial literatures, comparative imperialisms, postcolonial theory, and concepts of identity and community.
Since February 2023, Marijke has been a member of the NWO-funded research project Voicing the Colony: Travelers in the Dutch East Indies, 1800-1945, led by Prof. Dr. Rick Honings. She is an editor at Indische Letteren and Neophilologus.
Marijke is also a Postdoc at the Department of English of the University of Bern.
Researcher
- Faculty of Humanities
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Oude Nederlandse L&C
- Denger M.K. (2024), Britishness and Empire in the Malay Archipelago: The Travels of Stamford Raffles (1817) and Isabella Bird (1883). In: Bosnak Judith E. & Honings Rick (Eds.), The Malay Archipelago through Travellers' Eyes (1800-1900). Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.
- Boehmer E., Denger M.K., Honings R.A.M. & Veer C.B. van 't 26 February 2024, De postkoloniale podcast: internationale perspectieven op (post)koloniale literatuur. De postkoloniale podcast 13. Universiteit Leiden [podcast].
- Denger M.K. (2024), 'A hand book relative to the straits and Java': een vroeg Brits toeristisch perspectief op Nederlands-Indië (1853), De Moderne Tijd 8(3): 217-240.
- Denger M.K. (2023), 'The Whole Thing is Just a Gigantic Mistake': kolonialisme en 'vooruitgang' in Sally van Hugh Clifford en De stille kracht van Louis Couperus, Indische Letteren 38(2): 106-125.
- Denger M.K., Thérèse Hoven (Adinda): fervent schrijfster en feministe. Literatuurgeschiedenis (KB Nationale Bibliotheek; Taalunie). [web essay].
- Denger M.K. (2021), Van writing back naar printing back: wat boeken vertellen over het kolonialisme, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde 137(3): 140-143.
- Denger M.K. (2021), Mensen en (hun) natuur in Indië: Thérèse Hoven. In: Honings R., Veer C. van 't & Bel Jacqueline (Eds.), De postkoloniale spiegel: De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen. Leiden: Leiden University Press. 123-139.
- Denger M.K. (2021), Wendy Law-Yone und die burmesische 'Nation': Veränderungen (be)schreiben. In: Law-Yone W. & Lubrich O. (Eds.), Dürrenmatt and Me: Eine Passage von Burma nach Bern. Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag. 129-148.
- Denger M.K. (2021), Wendy Law-Yone and the Burmese 'Nation': Writing (About) Change. In: Law-Yone W. & Lubrich O. (Eds.), Dürrenmatt and Me: Eine Passage von Burma nach Bern. Berlin: Verbrecher Verlag. 149-166.
- Denger M.K. (2020), Een imperium (be)schrijven: Literatuur en koloniale identiteit in British Malaya en Nederlands-Indië, c. 1780-1930, Indische Letteren 35(4): 202-217.
- Denger M.K. (2019), Caring for Community: Towards a New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels. New York; London: Routledge.
- Denger M.K. (2016), Michelle de Kretser's The lost dog: history and identity in the metropolis of Melbourne. In: Sandten C. & Bauer A. (Eds.), Re-inventing the postcolonial (in the) metropolis. Leiden; Boston: Brill Rodopi. 291-307.
- Buchenau B., Richter V. & Denger M.K. (Eds.) (2015), Post-Empire Imaginaries?: Anglophone literature,history, and the demise of empires. Leiden; Boston: Brill Rodopi.
- Denger M.K. (2014) Writing Animals and (their) History: Review. Review of: Few Martha & Tortorici Zeb (editors) (2013), Centering Animals in Latin American History. Durham; London: Duke University Press 15(1): 124-126.
- Denger M.K. (2009), Conference Report: Postcolonial Translocations - 20th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of New English Literatures (GNEL/ASNEL), University of Münster, 21-24 May 2009, Acolit 64: 18-20.
- Advanced Postdoc