Gaston Franssen

Seminar

During the ACS Summer Institute 2011, Gaston Franssen will co-organize a seminar entitled: (Cross)cultural literacy and (trans)national literatures

About

Gaston Franssen (1977) is assistant-professor Literature & Diversity at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 2007, he contributed an article on modern poetry, impersonality and life-writing to the collection Stories and Portraits of the Self, ed. by H.C. Buescu and J.F. Duarte (Amsterdam: Rodopi); and in 2008 he published Gerrit Kouwenaar en de politiek van het lezen (Nijmegen: Vantilt), an analysis of the interpretive conventions at work in Dutch poetry criticism. His current research topics include contemporary Dutch literature, reception aesthetics, authorship, and popular celebrity. Recently, he contributed to the Journal of Dutch Literature 1.1 (Dec 2010) an article on these topics, entitled 'Literary Celebrity and the Discourse on Authorship in Dutch Literature'.