Prof. J.H.T. Joosten (Jos)
Professor - Department of Modern Languages and Cultures
Member - Representative Council Faculty of Arts
Professor - Radboud Institute for Culture and History
Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN
Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN
Prof Jos Joosten's areas of specialization are:
the post-war Flemish avantgarde (Hugo Claus, Louis-Paul Boon);
literary criticism in the Netherlands and Flanders;
contemporary Dutch literature.
Joosten is the author of Feit en tussenkomst (Fact and Intervention), the standard work on post-war Flemish writers (Vijftigers). Together with Thomas Vaessens, he published Postmoderne poëzie in Nederland en Vlaanderen, een onderzoek naar de 'literaire avant-garde van nu' (Post-modern Poetry in the Netherlands and Flanders, a Study on the 'Literary Avantgarde of Today'). Onttachtiging: essays over eigentijdse poëzie en poëziekritiek (Essays on Contemporary Poetry and Poetry Criticism).