Notes on the Contributors
Lieke van Deinsen
is a senior postdoctoral researcher funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (the FWO) and lecturer in Dutch historical literature at the KU Leuven. She conducts research on the visual representations of female authorship and authority in the early modern Low Countries. In 2017 she completed her Ph.D. on processes of literary canon formation (Literaire erflaters. Canonvorming in tijden van culturele crisis, 2017). As the Rijksmuseum’s Johan Huizinga Fellow, she published The Panpoëticon Batavûm. The Portrait of the Author as a Celebrity (2016).
Constance Hardesty
is an independent historian focusing on the history of science and technology. She is a former Digital Fellow of Early Modern Letters Online, Cultures of Knowledge, University of Oxford.
Paul Hulsenboom
is a lecturer at the Department of Languages, Literature and Communication at Utrecht University. He obtained a BA in Greek and Latin Language and Culture (cum laude) and MA’s in Literary Studies (cum laude) and Teaching Classics at Radboud University, Nijmegen. He has worked as a Classics teacher for several years. At Radboud University, he is writing a dissertation on how the Dutch and Poles imagined each other during the long seventeenth century, based on both textual and visual source material. His publications and scholarly interests mainly relate to early modern travel, diplomacy, Neo-Latin literature, and cultural exchange between Eastern and Western Europe. In addition, he translates Polish literature into Dutch, and he has won awards for both his scholarly publications and his translations.
Richard Kirwan
is Lecturer in History at the University of Limerick. Dr Kirwan’s research interests include the social and cultural history of the early modern world of learning, early modern print culture, and Reformation history. Dr Kirwan’s current project, funded by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, is a study of religious conversion, exile and migration among scholars in the Holy Roman Empire, c. 1555–c. 1648. Dr Kirwan has held research and teaching posts and fellowships at Trinity College Dublin, Maynooth University, the European University Institute, Florence, the University of St Andrews, the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, and the Utrecht University. In 2017 Dr Kirwan was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Tübingen. Dr Kirwan’s publications include the monograph Empowerment and Representation at the University in Early Modern Germany: Helmstedt and Würzburg, 1576–1634 (2009), the edited volume Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University (2013), and Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World (2015), a volume co-edited with Sophie Mullins.
Alan Moss
completed a BA in Dutch Language and Culture (cum laude) and an MA in Literary Studies (cum laude) at Radboud University, Nijmegen. At Radboud University, he is writing a dissertation on seventeenth-century travelogues of the Dutch Grand Tour, analysing how educational travel helped shape national, confessional, and masculine identities. His main publications and research interests lie in the field of early modern travel literature and tourism studies. He is currently working as a researcher for the Dutch National Archives, focusing on the war archives of the Dutch Red Cross.
Floris Solleveld
is an FWO Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven, working on a project about ethnolinguistics and geography in the long 19th century. He obtained his PhD at Radboud University Nijmegen with a study of transformations in the humanities between c. 1750–1850 and held fellowships in Halle (Saale), Gotha, and Amsterdam as well as a visiting position at the Max Planck Institute for History of Science (Berlin). For 2021 he is affiliated to Leiden University, preparing new research about the history of cultural comparisons from the late Enlightenment to the interwar period.
Esther M. Villegas de la Torre
(BA Hons., MA. Manchester; PhD, Nottingham) specializes in cultural history, with a transnational focus on premodern authorship, print, and gender. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at Universitat Pompeu Fabra: Revisiting the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters (REVERE) investigates the careers of eight “professional” and scholarly women authors, in English and Spanish, via the transnational life of authorial and editorial practices. Her recent publications include El canto de la décima Musa: poesías del Renacimiento y el Barroco (2020), an edited anthology of premodern female poetry, mostly in translation (from Italian, French, English, Latin, Spanish, and Portuguese), as well as articles and book chapters on the professionalization of the writer’s career, male and female, within the Respublica litteraria.