Irene de Jong
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Irene de Jong | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 June 1957 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Amsterdam |
| Thesis | Narrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the Iliad (1987) |
| Doctoral advisors | Mieke Bal and Jan Maarten Bremer |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Classics |
| Sub-discipline | Ancient Greek literature |
| Institutions | University of Amsterdam |
Irene Jacqueline Frederike de Jong FBA (born 9 June 1957) is a Dutch classical scholar, known for her pioneering work on narratology and Ancient Greek literature.[1]
Irene Jacqueline Frederike de Jong was born in Leiden on 9 June 1957.[2][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 at the University of Hamburg. She wrote her dissertation, Narrators and focalizers: the presentation of the story in the Iliad,[3] at the University of Amsterdam, funded by a grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) from 1985 until 1987,[1] under the supervision of Jan Maarten Bremer and Mieke Bal.[5] She then continued to work at the University of Amsterdam, first as a postdoc and later as a research fellow.
From 2002, De Jong held the chair of Ancient Greek at the University of Amsterdam.[1] Her retirement was marked by the publication of a volume of essays in 2022, titled Emotions and Narrative in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Irene de Jong.[6]
De Jong has been member of the Academia Europaea since 2007.[7] In 2015, De Jong was also selected as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[8][9] In 2019 she was elected a foreign member of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.[10] She was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2022.[11]
