Martine Veldhuizen

Biography

Martine Veldhuizen has published on historical perceptions of speech in the Low Countries in European context from a legal, ecclesiastical and secular-ethical perspective (1300 -1550). Her PhD-project at Utrecht University has resulted in a monograph which was published by Verloren in 2014 and will also be published in English by Brepols in 2016. She presented her research at the prime time television program De Wereld Draait Door and taught on various subjects of cultural history, language and literature at Utrecht University, William & Mary College, UCLA, University of Amsterdam and Radboud University. Martine was awarded the Gerard Brom CRM Humanities Grant at Radboud University, a Fonds Doctor Catharine van Tussenbroek grant to do a three-month research at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California and a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. She now holds a grant (Veni) of The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research on The Mentality behind Subversive Speech Behaviour in Narratives in the First Printed books in Dutch (1450-1500).

Research Interest

Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights