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Lindsay Janssen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at Radboud University. She obtained her PhD in 2016 with a thesis focusing on Irish diasporic popular fiction during the period of the Great Irish Famine, exploring cultural identity formation in that context. She received a full-time individual fellowship from the Irish Research Council and was affiliated with University College Dublin, where she researched Irish transatlantic periodical culture from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. From 2020 to 2023, she participated in the Heritages Hunger research project funded by NWO/NWA, studying educational practices in Irish Famine schools and the heritage sector. Lindsay is involved in collaborative research on literature education in Dutch secondary education, focusing on the literature choices made by teachers. Her monograph, "Periodical Famines: Irish Memories Transatlantic News Media, 1845-1919", is set to be published by Indiana University Press in 2025. In her teaching, she coordinates and delivers courses within bachelor's programs in English Language and Culture as well as a master's program in Education and Language Cultural Studies.
Radboud University • Nijmegen, Netherlands
Teaching and researching topics related to Irish literature, cultural identity, and educational practices.
Applies to Research Master's in Linguistics and Communication Sciences (Centre for Language Studies/Department of Language and Communication).