Irene de Jong | |
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Born | 1957 (age 66–67)
Leiden, Netherlands |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Institutions | University of Amsterdam |
Irene J. F. de Jong (born 1957) is a classicist and professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. [1] She is known for her pioneering work on narratology and Ancient Greek literature. [1] She is a Fellow of the British Academy. [2]
Irene de Jong was born in Leiden in 1957. [3] She studied at the University of Amsterdam from 1978 until 1982, and taught Classics at the Stedelijk Gymnasium in Utrecht in 1982–83. [4] In 1984 she worked as a research fellow at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. She wrote her dissertation, 'Narrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the Iliad', [3] at the University of Amsterdam under a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) from 1985 until 1987. [1] She then continued to work at the University of Amsterdam, first as a postdoc and later as a research fellow.
Since 2002 she has held the chair of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. [1]
De Jong has been member of the Academia Europaea since 2007. [5] In 2015, De Jong was also selected as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. [6] [7] In 2019 she was elected a foreign member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. [8] She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2022. [9]
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Irene de Jong | |
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Born | 1957 (age 66–67)
Leiden, Netherlands |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Classics |
Institutions | University of Amsterdam |
Irene J. F. de Jong (born 1957) is a classicist and professor of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. [1] She is known for her pioneering work on narratology and Ancient Greek literature. [1] She is a Fellow of the British Academy. [2]
Irene de Jong was born in Leiden in 1957. [3] She studied at the University of Amsterdam from 1978 until 1982, and taught Classics at the Stedelijk Gymnasium in Utrecht in 1982–83. [4] In 1984 she worked as a research fellow at the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. She wrote her dissertation, 'Narrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the Iliad', [3] at the University of Amsterdam under a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) from 1985 until 1987. [1] She then continued to work at the University of Amsterdam, first as a postdoc and later as a research fellow.
Since 2002 she has held the chair of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam. [1]
De Jong has been member of the Academia Europaea since 2007. [5] In 2015, De Jong was also selected as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. [6] [7] In 2019 she was elected a foreign member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. [8] She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2022. [9]
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