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Erwin Mantingh has been connected to the Graduate School of Teaching and the Department of Languages, Literature & Communication of Utrecht University since 2011, focusing on teacher training and subject didactics. He coordinates three national programs under the auspices of Subject Didactics Humanities: Dudoc-Alfa, Mastery in Subject Didactics, and Postdoc VO GW. Previously, he conducted research and taught Middle Dutch literature and medieval culture at Utrecht University from 1990 to 2000. His doctoral thesis, 'A Monk with a Role' (2000), examines the so-called Copenhagen Life of Lutgart, the oldest preserved literary and illustrated book in the Dutch language, which suggests that it was read aloud for three days. This work clarifies the contested attribution to Willem van Affligem and situates the creation and contextualization of this saint's life within the literary-historical context of Affligem Abbey, 1270. From 2000 to 2012, he worked as a first-degree Dutch teacher at K.S.G. De Breul Zeist, teaching lower and upper levels of havo and vwo. As a member and chair of the Mastery Team Dutch from 2014 to 2024, he contributed to the dissemination of 'conscious literacy' as a new guideline for the Dutch subject. From 2022 to 2024, he was part of the Curriculum Renewal Commission Dutch, which updated the final terms. He engages in and supervises subject didactic research, developing historical reasoning in literature as an activating didactic model for teaching literature history, and collaborates with subject scientists, subject didactics experts, teachers, students, and pupils to publish teaching materials.
Department of Psychology