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This module will introduce students to key topics in contemporary Neerlandophone (Dutch) Studies in an interdisciplinary manner, focusing on Dutch and Flemish exchanges worldwide. It will allow students to reflect on topics such as colonialism and its legacies; issues of identity and migration, and how they resonate in contemporary discussions of decentring and decolonising Dutch Studies; the construction of historical and literary canons; notions of home and belonging; discourses of (national) identity; the development of communities; the construction of standard languages; urban multilingualism and regional and minority languages; the role of national institutions and corporations; text exchanges and the role of translation. Students will acquire a thorough foundation in interdisciplinary, contemporary Dutch Studies, preparing them for more advanced exploration in their second year of study. Students from all departments are welcome to join this module. Knowledge of Dutch is not a requirement.

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Initial bibliography

Special issue ‘Worlding Modern Literature in the Low Countries’, ed. by Hans Demeyer, Bram Leven and Lucelle Pardoe, Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Countries Studies, vol. 47, issue 1 (2023.

Lechner, Frank J., The NetherlandsÌý: Globalization and National IdentityÌý ( New YorkÌý;: Routledge, 2008).

Van Engelenhoven, Gerlov. Postcolonial Memory in the Netherlands: Meaningful Voices, Meaningful Silences (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022).

Boehmer, Elleke and Sarah de Mul (ed) (2012). The Postcolonial Low Countries: Literature, Colonialism, Multiculturalism. Plymouth: Lexington Books.