Marrigje Paijmans (1981) is a PhD student in Early Modern Literature at the Institute of Culture and History of the University of Amsterdam. She is a member of the Huizinga Institute, the national Dutch research school for Cultural History. Holding MAs in Dutch literature and philosophy, her PhD research focusses on the Foucaultian concept of parrhesia (free speech) in texts by the Dutch seventeenth-century poet and playwright Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679). An analysis through the perspective of parrhesia reveals Vondel's texts to be highly polyphonic, which phenomenon can be related to the decentralized political structure of the Dutch Republic.

Between 2006 and 2010 Marrigje worked as an editor for Boom Publishers in Amsterdam. She teaches at the University of Amsterdam and at Leiden University.

Parrhesia (Frank Speech) in the Work of Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679)

Promotor:  prof. dr. E.M.P. (Lia) van Gemert, University of Amsterdam 

Co-promotor 1: dr. F.R.E. (Frans) Blom, University of Amsterdam

Co-promotor 2: prof. dr. F.W.A. (Frans-Willem) Korsten, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Leiden University 

PhD Committee
prof. dr. J. (Jürgen) Pieters, Gent University

Research Groups: 

Networks of the Dutch Republic (ASCH)

Historical Theatre Research: Text, Performance, and Production of Knowledge (ASCH)

The Periferies Project (ASCA)  

History and Philosophy of the Humanities (ASCH) 

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Research Interests

The Seventeenth Century Dutch Republic, Joost van den Vondel, Benedictus Spinoza, Early Modern, Dutch Revolt, Theatre, Early Modern Literature, Early Modern Philosophy, Career Criticism, Self-Fashioning, Parrhesia, Care of the Self, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze

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