Dr. Anneleen Arnout

Biography

Anneleen Arnout is an Assistant Professor of Cultural History at Radboud University. She studied history and cultural heritage at the universities of Leuven and Utrecht, obtaining her PhD in 2015 from the universities of Leuven and Antwerp. Her research focuses on nineteenth and early twentieth-century urban culture, with significant publications including 'Streets of Splendor', a monograph analyzing the development of shopping space culture in nineteenth-century Brussels. Her work engages with questions of heritage and the development of the art market during this period, exploring the history of urban consumer spaces, markets, shopping arcades, and shopping streets. Currently, she is working on a project funded by the VENI grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO), which aims to trace and explain the ways in which changes in urban space were intertwined with shifts in emotional culture in Amsterdam, Paris, and London during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Arnout actively contributes to the academic community, sharing insights on the emotional experience of urban space, particularly in the context of the contemporary impact of events such as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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