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• After sixty years, German alumni are back in Leiden: ‘I presided over the meeting with a revolver’ News - 7 April 2025

  They first entered the Academy Building fifty to sixty years ago. On 28 March, they were back for an afternoon: the members of the Dr Pfiffikus debating society of the German Studies programme. Former chair Hans van der Veen looks back on his student days.

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  Maria Boletsi Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Oegstgeest bowl and the bones of a giant king mentioned in Beowulf News - 23 July 2014

  Recently, archeologists of Leiden University made an excavation in Oegstgeest, where they found a unique silver bowl from the first half of the seventh century as well as imported pottery and winebarrels. Thijs Porck, lecturer in Old English language and culture at Leiden University, places the Oegstgeest…

• The Epic Rebirth of Christ: Reciprocal Anchoring in the Italian Renaissance Research project

  At the end of the fifteenth century, two intriguing Christian epics were written in Virgilian Latin by the poets Sannazaro and Vida. They did so in accordance with the wishes of the pope. These epics, both praised and criticized by contemporaries, are often seen as innovative for their specific combination…

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  Krista A. Milne Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Antje Wessels Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• What politicians can learn from Cicero and Dionysius News - 17 October 2019

  'How do you write a slogan to win an election?' Steven Ooms answers this question in his PhD research into ideas about good prose in the time of Caesar and Emperor Augustus. This period is considered a high point for the development of literature. The Roman Cicero and the Greek Dionysius of Halicarnassus…

• marriage of the Kitchen God’s wife in the rewriting of Chinese Folk Literature in the 1950s and its enduring legacy Event - 9 April 2025

  Lecture, China Seminar

• European grant for research into Indian scriptures: ‘This is what our understanding of Hinduism is based on’ News - 26 April 2022

  Professor Peter Bisschop has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. He will invest the 2.5 million euros in his research into puranas: ancient texts, commonly written in Sanskrit, that are up to fifteen hundred years old.

• Literary Studies (MA)

  The MA Literary Studies at Leiden University offers you a specialised qualification in one of four languages and cultures, or a comparative perspective on literature and society. You can tailor your degree to match your interests and ambitions, with options to combine majors, take electives across specialisations,…

• American Studies

  The interdisciplinary minor American Studies offers a survey of U.S. history, literature and culture from the establishment of the first colonies on the North American continent in the 15th century to the present.

• About the programme Literature in Society. Europe and Beyond (MA)

• About the programme Literary Studies (MA)

  Learn the newest insights from established scholars.

• About the programme French Literature and Culture (MA)

  Learn the newest insights from established scholars.

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  Kitty Zijlmans Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Anne Por PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ernst van Alphen Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ilios Willemars University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Luisella Caon University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gergana Vasileva PhD candidate

  ICLON

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  Yunnan Ye
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  Alex Brandsen
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  Jos Brosschot Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Yasco Horsman University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• About the programme English Literature and Culture (MA)

• Honorary doctorates for Belgian virologist Marc van Ranst and German Arabist Beatrice Gründler News - 11 October 2022

  Leiden University is awarding an honorary doctorate to virologist Marc van Ranst. Van Ranst has been one of the main advisers of the Belgian government during the Covid pandemic. German Arabist Beatrice Gründler will also receive an honorary doctorate for her work in the field of Oriental Manuscript…

• Sara Brandellero: 'the news coming from Brazil is chilling' News - 18 May 2020

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro called the COVID-19 disease “a minor illness”. With more than 200.000 confirmed corona cases today (May 18) however, Brazil is quickly becoming one of the world’s emerging coronavirus hot spots. How long can Bolsonaro continue to downplay the corona crisis? We asked…

• Meet our staff Classics (research) (MA)

• About the programme Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory (MA)

  The programme consists of four fields of study which are outlined below.

• New Germans, New Dutch. Literary Interventions Research output

  In the globalised world of today, traditional definitions of national Self and national Other no longer hold. The unmistakable transformation of German and Dutch societies demands a thorough rethinking of national boundaries on several levels.

• Meet our staff German Literature and Culture (MA)

• Children's Response to Humor in Translated Poetry Research output

  On the 12th of December, Alice Ross T. Morta successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Alice on this achievement!

• Meet our staff Hebrew and Aramaic Studies (research) (MA)

• Meet our staff Hebrew and Aramaic Studies (MA)

• The Arab Thieves: al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Research output

  Vol. V, Sections 1-2

• Meet our staff Cultural Analysis: Literature and Theory (MA)

• About the programme German Literature and Culture (MA)

  Learn the newest insights from established researchers.

• New MOOC: The Cosmopolitan Medieval Arabic World News - 29 November 2018

  Did you know that Arabic was for centuries the lingua franca in an area stretching from the south of Spain to the Chinese border? And that the Middle East under Muslim rule was the world’s beating heart of trade, but also of science and scholarship? Want to learn more? Then sign up for the new MOOC…

• (Un)timely Crises: Chronotopes and Critique Research output

  Un)timely Crises explores how ‘crisis’—as a narrative, concept, grammar, and experience—structures time and space. This collectively written volume extends Bakhtin’s ‘chronotope’ to challenge mobilizations of crisis within neoliberal governmentality. The book explores how contemporary crises can trigger…

• Career prospects Literature in Society. Europe and Beyond (MA)

• Meet our staff Book and Digital Media Studies (MA)

• Meet our staff Classics (MA)

• Meet our staff French Literature and Culture (MA)

• About the programme Arts, Literature and Media (research) (MA)

• Why Leiden University Literature in Society. Europe and Beyond (MA)

  Leiden University offers students a rich environment in which to reach their potential.

• Continuing your studies English Language and Culture (BA)

  If you’ve graduated from the programme and you want to further your academic education you can continue with a master’s programme. It will earn you the title of Master of Arts (MA) and significantly increase your chances of finding a position at academic level.

• Admission and application French Literature and Culture (MA)

  Find out how to apply for French Literature and Culture at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.

• Admission and application Literature in Society. Europe and Beyond (MA)

  Find out how to apply for Literature in Society: Europe and Beyond at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.

• Admission and application German Literature and Culture (MA)

  Find out how to apply for German Literature and Culture at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.

• Public Diplomacy Research output

  This article provides an all-inclusive overview of public diplomacy literature that relates to a myriad of issues and has been studied from various points of view.