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prof. dr. J.W. (Hans) Renders

Professor History and Theory of Biography
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Telephone:
Oude Boteringestraat 32:
J.W.Renders rug.nl
E-mail:
j.w.renders rug.nl

Field/Discipline

Expertise

History and Theory of Biography; History and Theory of Journalism; Literary history; World War II; book and publishinghouse history; Avant Garde in the Interbellum and Theo van Doesburg,

Other positions

Director Biography Institute
Editor-in-chief of the bookseries Biography Studies (Brill); Editor of Le Temps des Médias; Editor Quaerendo. A Quarterly Journal from the Low Countries; Member of the Editorial Board of ZL. Literary-historical magazine; Bookcritic Het Parool and started a monthly column on biography in 2016 with his 'Leven in Letters', which can be heard every third Sunday of the month on the radioprogram Met het Oog op Morgen; Chair of the Board of Stichting Het Biografisch Portaal van Nederland; Honorary Member of the Jan Hanlo Essay Prize; Member of Advisory Council Biographers International Organization (BIO); Member of the board De Nederlandse Biografie Prijs; (until 2021) Member of the Advisory Board of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biography (Vienna); Member of the Advisory Board of the Chinese Journal of Modern Life-Writing Studies;
Member of the Editorial Board of the Australian Journal of Biography and History
Member of the advisory board of H-Biography is an interdisciplinary and international network devoted to biography as an object and a method of scholarly research. Under his auspices, Noordboek publishes the biography series Over Leven. And Renders is also member of the Advisory Board of BiografiePortaal.nl
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Contact information

Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26
9712 EK Groningen
The Netherlands

Biography Institute

Telephone:
Oude Boteringestraat 32:
J.W.Renders rug.nl