K. Steenbergh

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I am a Senior Lecturer in English Literature. My research focuses on early modern literature and culture, the history of emotions, ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. My teaching ranges from Shakespeare to Winterson, from first-year BA to PhD level.

I am a member of De Jonge Akademie (KNAW), The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

I co-founded the Environmental Humanities Center at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. We aim to foster an exchange between a wide range of disciplines on the environment. We believe the environmental issues of the Anthropocene are complex, and therefore need an approach that accommodates and works with all kinds of different perspectives on this complexity -- from the humanities as well as the natural and social sciences.

I am also one of the directors of the Amsterdam Centre for Cross-Disciplinary Emotions and Sensory Studies. Founded by cultural historians who analyze the cultural history of emotions, this center seeks to engage in cross-disciplinary explorations of the role of culture in the arousal, experience, and expression of emotions.

Ancillary activities

Editor of Cultural History (Edinburgh UP), the journal of the International Society for Cultural History
Founding member of the board of the Environmental Humanities Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Co-director of ACCESS, the Amsterdam Centre for Cross-Disciplinary Emotions and Sensory Studies
Board member of the Dutch Research School for Literary Studies (OSL)
Member of De Jonge Akademie (The Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)

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Keywords

PE English
history of emotions
environmental humanities
early modern literature
ecocriticism
English literature
gender theory

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emotion Social Sciences

handwriting Social Sciences

sympathy Social Sciences

edition Social Sciences

theater Social Sciences

critic Social Sciences

vocabulary Social Sciences

politics Social Sciences

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Research Output 2002 2018

10 Article
8 Chapter
6 Book/Film/Article review
1 Book editing
2 More
- 1 Conference contribution
- 1 Review article

Compost and sea change: Ecology and early modern literature

Steenbergh, K., 1 Apr 2018, In : Cultural History. 7, 1, p. 103-107 5 p.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review

Emotions as a kind of practice: Six case studies utilizing monique scheer's practice-based approach to emotions in history

Davison, K., Jalava, M., Morosini, G., Scheer, M., Steenbergh, K., Van Der Zande, I. & Zwicker, L. F., Oct 2018, In : Cultural History. 7, 2, p. 226-238 13 p.

Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review