Liesbeth Minnaard

Liesbeth Minnaard is a Lecturer in Film and Literary Studies at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). Her research focuses on the cultural effects of migration, on intersections of race, gender and more, on the rhetoric of (Europe in) crisis, and on literature and activism. She is the author of New Germans, New Dutch. Literary Interventions (Amsterdam University Press, 2007), co-author of De lichtheid van literatuur. Engagement in de multiculturele samenleving (Acco, 2015) and co-editor of, among others, Literature, Language and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries (Rodopi, 2013), Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism (Brill, 2014), and From Crisis to Critique: Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes (2020). She is co-organizer of the Flemish-Dutch Platform for Postcolonial Readings and a board member of the Netherlands Research School of Gender Studies.