Geert Buelens#
| Membership Number: | 3688 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.uu.nl/staff/GBuelens/0 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 - present Full professor of Dutch Literature, Utrecht University
- 2008 - present Guest professor at Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- 2008 Kluge research fellow, Library of Congress
- 2005 Peter Paul Rubens Chair, University of California, Berkeley
- 2001 - 2005 Assistant Professor of Literature, Antwerp University
Fields of Scholarship
- Cultural history of the 1960s
- Writing of national and international literary and cultural histories
- European culture and literature around the First World War
- Interplay between poetry and song writing since the Romantic Era.
- Modern Dutch literature & culture
- Avant-garde and neo-avant-garde
- Nationalism and Literature
Honours and Awards
- 2003 The Flemish Culture Prize for Essay and Criticism
- 2003 Literary Essay Prize, Antwerp province
- 2009 ABN-AMRO Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of 2008
- 2010 Arkprijs van het Vrije Woord
- 2012 Elected Member of Koninklijke Academie voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde [Belgium]]
