Biography 

Dr. Marco de Waard is Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Amsterdam University College (AUC) and a Research Fellow at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). He has been at AUC since 2009, having previously taught at Utrecht University and the University of Amsterdam.

Marco de Waard holds M.A. degrees in Nineteenth-Century Studies (University of Sheffield, 2001) and English and Comparative Literature (University of Amsterdam, 2004) and obtained a Ph.D. degree in History from the European University Institute in Florence (EUI) in 2007. While working towards his doctoral degree he also spent a semester as visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. At AUC he is a core faculty member and a member of the Board of Examiners. In 2010 he received the AUC Teacher of the Year Award.

Departmental Service (AUC)

Board of Examiners (since 2010).

Acting Head of Studies, Humanities (Spring 2013).

Principal Educator, Humanities (2013-2015).

Research Interests

I'm a literary scholar and intellectual historian who works on questions of historical representation, historical remembrance, and the production of historical knowledge from the nineteenth century until today. Currently, my main research project is a book titled John Morley and the Uses of History in Victorian Liberal Culture (under contract with Ashgate). The aim of this book is to offer a critical reappraisal of the work of John Morley (1838-1923), a nineteenth-century statesman and "man of letters" whose ideas were important in shaping British liberalism between the 1860s and 1914. Using Morley's writings as a way into some pivotal debates of the late nineteenth century -- about the nature of progress, the future of religion, and the responsibilities of empire -- the study explores the unique and central role of the historical imagination in shaping modern liberal thought and liberal culture.

Memberships 

I'm a member of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS), the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA European chapter), the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA), and the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA).

I regularly present my work at international conferences, including, most recently, at the ACLA 2013 Annual Meeting held at the University of Toronto, Canada, in April 2013, and at the ACLA 2014 Annual Meeting held at New York University, United States, in March 2014.

Edited Book 

(2012) Imagining Global Amsterdam: History, Culture, and Geography in a World City. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 316 pp.

Research Articles

(2012) "Amsterdam and the Global Imaginary" (editor's introduction), in Imagining Global Amsterdam: History, Culture, and Geography in a World City, ed. M. de Waard. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 9-24.

(2012) "Dutch Decline Redux: Remembering New Amsterdam in the Global and Cosmopolitan Novel," in Imagining Global Amsterdam: History, Culture, and Geography in a World City, ed. M. de Waard. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 101-122. 

(2012) "Rembrandt on Screen: Art Cinema, Cultural Heritage, and the Museumization of Urban Space," in Imagining Global Amsterdam: History, Culture, and Geography in a World City, ed. M. de Waard. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 143-167.

(2012) "Redemptive Realism? History and Intertextuality in On Chesil Beach," in Rethinking Mimesis: Concepts and Practices of Literary Representation, ed. S. Isomaa, S. Kivistö, P. Lyytikäinen, S. Nyqvist, M. Polvinen, and R. Rossi. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 229-250.

(2011) "History's (Un)Reason: Victorian Intellectualism from J. S. Mill to Leslie Stephen," Victorian Studies, vol. 53, issue 3, pp. 457-467.

Dictionary and Encyclopedia Entries

(2009) "William Godwin," in The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, ed. Immanuel Ness, vol. 3. Oxford: Blackwell.

(2009) Various thematic and biographical entries in Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism, ed. Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor. London: The British Library.

Courses Developed and Taught (2011- ):

• HUM121: The Modern Urban Novel
• HUM161: Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory
• HUM/SSC224: Political Shakespeare
• HUM311: The Global City and Its Problems
• HUM321: Literature in the Age of Globalization
• HUM364: Cultural Memory Studies

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