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ePortfolio of Tina Janssen

Welcome to the ePortfolio of Tina Janssen, Early Career Fellow with the Institute of Advanced Study.

PhD research (2017-2021)

I recently completed my PhD on Sir William Jones (1746-1794) in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. My thesis, 'Future Scholars, Future Poets': the contemporary reception of Sir William Jones's translations of oriental literature, 1770-1835, focused on his translations of literary texts from oriental languages to Latin, English and French. I have researched contemporary responses to these works, for example by examining their reviews, letters, and translations. Furthermore, I discussed Romantic poets, using his translations as information and inspiration for creating their fictional oriental worlds.

My research is part of the project Oriental Poetry, Latin Scholarship and the European Enlightenment: The Case of William Jones, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. My supervisor is the Principal Investigator on the project, Dr. John T. Gilmore.

Publications

Janssen, C. G. M. (2021) Comparison as Context in Sir William Jones’s Translations of Eastern Literature, in Rohland, E., Epple, Angelika, Flüchter, Antje, Kramer, Kirsten (ed), Contact, Conquest, and Colonization: How Practices of Comparing Shaped Empires and Colonialism Around the World. Studies in Cultural History. New York: Routledge, pp. 225-241.

Conference papers

'The true spirit of poetry': Sir William Jones’s Poems (1772) as an Introduction to Oriental Poetry, BSECS Annual Conference, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, 8-10 January 2020

Sir William Jones’s Poems (1772) as an Introduction to Oriental Poetry, ISECS International Congress on the Enlightenment, University of Edinburgh, 14-19 July 2019

Sir William Jones's Persian Grammar: changing attitudes to language acquisition, BSECS Annual Conference, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, 4-6 January 2019
 Nominated for the 2019 BSECS President's Prize, awarded to the best postgraduate paper at the Annual Conference.

3 Minute Thesis Lightning Talk, British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 5 December 2018

From Theology to Utility: Eighteenth-century Oriental Studies, The Making of The Humanities VII, University of Amsterdam, 15-17 November 2018

The comparative method of Sir William Jones, Contact – Conquest – Colonization: Practices of Comparing between Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas, from Antiquity to Present, Bielefeld University, 11-13 October 2018

Sir William Jones's Persian Grammar and the Academic Disciplinary Tradition, Warwick Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference, University of Warwick, 21 June 2018

Sacontalá's travels: the journey and influence of Sir William Jones's translation through Europe, Annual Warwick English PG Symposium, University of Warwick, 24 May 2018

3 Minute Thesis Lightning Talk, BECC-Warwick Symposium, University of Warwick, 17 May 2018

Sir William Jones and translations of the Sanskrit drama Sakontalá, BSECS Annual Conference, St. Hugh's College, Oxford, 3-5 January 2018

Reviewing the Reviews: First Reactions to Sir William Jones's Oriental Literature, BSECS Postgraduate and Early Career Conference, Swansea University, 7-8 September 2017

Workshop participation

Doctoral/ECR workshop 'British Empire: Networks, Mobilities, Cultures', Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick, 1 March 2019

Doctoral Translation Research Forum, Connecting Cultures GRP, University of Warwick, 25 October 2017

Teaching & facilitating

2021-2022: Teacher for the Master's programme Education in Language and Culture Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2018-2021: Facilitator with Warwick Doctoral College, providing workshops for PGRs

2019/20: Marker on the first-year module 'Epic into Novel' in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, 3 seminar groups

2018/19: Tutor on the first-year module 'Epic into Novel' in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, 3 seminar groups

2017/18: Tutor on the first-year module 'Modes of Reading' in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, 2 seminar groups

2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21: Tutor on the third-year module 'Communicating Science' in the Department of Physics, 2 seminar groups

Societies

2018-2021: Postgraduate Representative on the Executive Committee of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Conference organisation

January-September 2021: BSECS Postgraduate and Early Career Digital Seminar Series 2

January-May 2021: Colonial Knowledges Digital Seminar Series

July-December 2020 BSECS Postgraduate and Early Career Digital Seminar Series 1

7-8 July 2020: BSECS Postgraduate and Early Career Conference, University of Warwick CANCELLED

27-28 February 2020: Colonial Knowledges: Environment and Logistics in the Creation of Knowledge in British Colonies from 1750 to 1950, University of Manchester

3-4 September 2018: BSECS Postgraduate and Early Career Conference, Aix-Marseille Université

Academic background

MA Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Utrecht University, 2013
Specialisation: Renaissance Studies
MA thesis: Marginalia of eighteenth century readers of Livy: Cortius, Ernesti and Gronovius

MA Classics, Leiden University, 2013
Specialisation: Latin
MA thesis: From Medea to Médée - research into the reception of Seneca’s Medea in Corneille’s Médée

BA Classics, Leiden University, 2011
BA thesis: Lift me above the stars - Francesco Sforza in the Odae of Francesco Filelfo

MEd Classics, Leiden University Graduate School of Teaching (ICLON), 2015
Teacher qualification for Latin and Greek

Tina Janssen

Tina Janssen

t dot janssen at warwick dot ac dot uk