Home

Field of research

Marleen Rensen studied Arts and Sciences at the University of Maastricht and took her PHD at the University of Amsterdam. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor (UD) teaching in the department of European Studies. She specializes in modern European literature, with a specific focus on France in the interwar period. 

Other fields of interest: romanticism, the cultural relations between France and Germany, literary engagement, literature and war, eurofascism, literature and the experience of time, the novel and the biography.

Current research

In her current research on French and German intellectuals (1870-1945) she studies the way in which novels and biographies have been written to tell  'European Lives'.

Publications

Her PHD-thesis Lijden aan de tijd. Franse intellectuelen in het interbellum (Aspekt, 2009) is about French intellectuals in the interwar period.

Verwijzing

Bijdrage aan bundel (2011)

She wrote a chapter for this book about the nationalist rhetorics of the Dutch populist party PVV.