Elisabeth Leijnse

About

Faculties/Departments/Services

Faculté de philosophie et lettres
Département de langues et littératures germaniques

Research institutes

Namur Institute of Language, Text and Transmediality

Research center

Unité de néerlandais - Membre - Responsable

Organs

Conseil de faculté
Conseil du Département de langues et littératures germaniques

Domains of expertise

  • Dutch and comparative literature 19th and 20th century 
  • Fin de siècle
  • Feminism in the 19th century
  • Critical edition

External responsibilities

  • Spiegel der Letteren, Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse literatuurgeschiedenis en Literatuurwetenschap (Peeters: Leuven), member of the editorial board
  • Septentrion (Ons Erfdeel: Rekkem), member of the advisory committee
  • Maurice Maeterlinck Foundation, Member of the Board of Directors

Degrees

PhD (with thesis)

Prizes

  • Libris Geschiedenis Prijs 2016 for the biography Cécile en Elsa. Strijdbare freules (annual prize for the best history book published in Dutch; 320 books competed in 2016; award ceremony on 30 October 2016 live on Radio1 OVT, VPRO, from Amsterdam Felix Meritis, 10-12am).
  • Biografieprijs 2016 for Cécile en Elsa. Strijdbare freules (prize for the best biography published in Dutch between November 2013 and November 2015; presentation of the prize in Haarlem, Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen, 10 May 2016, by Prince Pieter-Christiaan van Oranje-Nassau).
  • Cécile and Elsa. Strijdbare freules on the ECI Literatuurprijs 2016 longlist (fiction and non-fiction).

2025-2026

2024-2025

2023-2024

2022-2023

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