Dr. Sabine van Wesemael (associate professor) teaches French and European literature at the University of Amsterdam. Her main fields of interest are French modernism and the extreme contemporary novel.

Sabine van Wesemael is the director of the Graduate School of Humanities.

She wrote her dissertation on A la recherché du temps perdu by Marcel Proust and she is one of the editors of the academic reviews Marcel Proust Aujourd’hui and Relief. During the last years Sabine van Wesemael has organized several conferences on the extreme contemporary novel which have resulted in key publications on the subject. She published several studies on the extreme contemporary novel and more particularly on the novels by Michel Houellebecq.

Sabine van Wesemael teaches mainly on master level.  She works for several departments: French language and culture, European Studies, Comparative literature and the Research Master Literary Studies.

Key Publications 

• De receptie van Proust in Nederland, Historische Reeks, 1999
• Michel Hoellebecq, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2004
• Michel Houellebecq, Le plaisir du texte, l'Harmattan, Paris, 2005
• Michel Houellebecq sous la loupe (with Murielle L. Clement), Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2007
• Les relations familiales dans le roman contemporain (with Murielle L. Clement), L'Harmattan, Paris, 2008
• Marcel Proust Aujourd'hui, wetenschappelijk tijdschrift, (2003-2015), Rodopi, Amsterdam
• Le roman transgressif contemporain: de Bret Easton Ellis à Michel Houellebecq, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2010
• Murielle Lucie Clement et Sabine van Wesemael [dir]: Le Malaise existentiel, Editions Universitaires Européennes, 2011
• Sabine van Wesemael, Murielle Lucie Clement [dir], Michel Houellebecq à la Une, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2011 
• Sabine van Wesemael et Bruno Viard, L'unité de l'oeuvre de Michel Houellebecq, Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2013
• The Return of the Narrative: the Call for the Novel
  Le retour à la narration: le désir du roman; Sabine van Wesemael & Suze van der Poll, Peter Lang Academic Research, Frankfurt am Main, 2015
• Sabine van Wesemael et Antoine Jurga [dir] Lectures croisees de l'oeuvre de Michel Houellebecq, Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2017.
• Sabine van Wesemael [dir] Michel Houellebecq, Roman 20-50, Lille, 2018
• Sabine van Wesemael, Houellebecq, Atheneum-Polak&Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 2020.

De receptie van Proust in Nederland, Historische Reeks, 1999

Michel Houellebecq, Le plaisir du texte, l'Harmattan, Paris, 2005

Michel Houellebecq sous la loupe (with Murielle L. Clement), Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2007

Les relations familiales dans le roman contemporain (with Murielle L. Clement), L'Harmattan, Paris, 2008

Sabine van Wesemael et Bruno Viard, L'unité de l'oeuvre de Michel Houellebecq, Classiques Garnier, Paris, 2013

Sabine van Wesemael / Suze van der Poll (eds.)

The return of the Narrative: the Call for the Novel

Le retour à la narration: le désir du roman

PL Academic Research, 2015

Lectures croisées de l'oeuvre de Michel Houellebecq, 2017