Jeroen Dewulf

Jeroen Dewulf (1972 in Nieuwpoort, Belgium) is a Belgian scholar specializing in Dutch culture, the Dutch language, German Studies and Latin American Studies. He is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]

Biography

Dewulf was born in 1972 in Belgium. He was educated at Ghent University, University of Porto and the University of Bern. Since 2007, he teaches in the German department at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a regular visiting professor at University of São Paulo and Federal University of Ceará in Brazil.

Works

Dewulf works mainly on Dutch colonial and postcolonial literature from the Dutch East Indies and the Caribbean, including authors such as Tjalie Robinson, Albert Helman (Lou Lichtveld) and Tip Marugg. Together with Olf Praamstra and Michiel van Kempen, he edited the book Shifting the Compass (2013). He also created the website Amerindo about the Dutch-Eurasian Indo community in the United States.[2] He also studies slavery in New Netherland and New York, most notably the legacy of Pinkster and Sojourner Truth, and is a specialist in the works of the Swiss author Hugo Loetscher and is the testamentary executor of his archival papers at the Swiss National Library. In Hugo Loetscher und die Portugiesischsprachige Welt (1999), he studied Loetscher’s work about Portugal, Brazil and the relics of the former commercial empire of the Portuguese in Asia and Oceania. In 2005, he published In alle Richtungen gehen. Reden und Aufsätze über Hugo Loetscher in cooperation with Rosmarie Zeller. In Brasilien hit Brüchen (2007), he also focused on other Swiss writers in Brazil, including Johann Jakob von Tschudi, Louis Agassiz, Blaise Cendrars, and Richard Katz.

In 2004, he published Gramática da língua neerlandesa, the first grammar book of the Dutch language written in Portuguese.[3] In 2010, he wrote Spirit of Resistance, a book on clandestine literature by the Dutch resistance in the Second World War, using the Dutch clandestine book collection at the Bancroft Library. In 2014, he became the director of Institute of European Studies at University of California, Berkeley. [4]

Principal Publications

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