Dr. Marijke Denger

Biography

Marijke Denger is a dedicated academic specializing in Modern English Literature. She pursued her education at Leiden University and Trinity College Dublin before obtaining her PhD from the University of Bern in autumn 2016. Her doctoral thesis, 'Caring Community: New Ethics of Responsibility in Contemporary Postcolonial Novels', was published by Routledge in 2019. Marijke's postdoctoral research focused on the Empire East Indies, exploring the literature and geopolitics of Imperial Awareness in British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies from circa 1780 to 1930. This project received funding from the SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship, allowing her to conduct archival research at the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden and the University of Oxford. She is expected to defend her Habilitation in summer 2025, which examines Colonial Rivalry and Imperial Awareness within the context of literature from British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies. Currently, she is a postdoc at Leiden University, involved in an NWO-funded research project titled 'Voicing Colony: Travelers of the Dutch East Indies, 1800-1945', under the leadership of Professor Rick Honings.

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