Three talented new PhD’s in Humanities receive NWO funding

Anna-Rose Shack, Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp and Heleen de Vries have received funding for their doctoral research at the UvA through the NWO programme PhDs in the Humanities. Financiers are the Programme Office Sustainable Humanities and the NWO domain Social Sciences and Humanities. Anna-Rose Shack. Research school: Amsterdam School for Historical Studies Languages of Vulnerability in Early Modern Women's Poetry Looking at how poetry articulates subjectivity in construction, this thesis is concerned with how early modern female poets represent and articulate vulnerable selfhood in lyric poetry. Situating itself in critical discussions on selfhood and gender in early modernity, this thesis reflects on patriarchal discourses of control that governed women and the female body. The research argues that for early modern female poets selfhood is not only complicated by tension between self-sufficiency and interpersonal relationships, but is contingent on vulnerability itself. Supervisors: Carrol Clarkson and dr. Kristine Johanson - Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp.